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  • Kirtland AFB professional organizations

    If you want to make a difference in your community, hone your leadership skills or meet other professionals with similar interests, you might want to look at the professional organizations on Kirtland AFB.Professional organizations exist to enhance esprit de corps and improve our community through

  • Membership changes for the Mountain View Club

    Over the past 20 years, the Air Force community has seen substantial cuts in federal budgets in every area of service. Air Force clubs were no different.Lack of appropriate financial support has created the need for clubs to become self-sufficient. Self-sufficiency has become the buzzword among club

  • Construction at the 377th Medical Group

    An energy-saving initiative is taking place in three parking lots at the Veterans Administration/377th Medical Group campus.Preparation work was accomplished in October to have solar panels installed as a covered parking structure. The electricity generated will feed directly back into the VA power

  • Enjoy healthy holiday meals

    For many of us, the holidays are when people come together to celebrate and honor traditions that we hold dear. They are also a time for us to indulge in eating some of the best food of the year.Holiday feasting can pose challenges for those who are trying to eat healthy and watch their weight. Judy

  • School zone safety

    Drivers passing through the school zone have to be vigilant and focus on driving safely. Watch for children walking and riding bikes across the street. The school zone speed limit is 15 miles per hour when warning lights are flashing. When the lights are not flashing, drivers still have to watch for

  • CGOC cleans New Mexico’s roadside

    The Team Kirtland Company Grade Officer's Council recently joined the New Mexico Department of Transportation's Adopt-A-Highway program and is the proud sponsor of I-25 from mile marker 219-220. Thirteen officers and family members of the CGOC volunteered Oct. 16 to clean one mile of I-25. The

  • Forty-two years of dedicated service and counting

    Working for nearly half a century can put a lot of wear and tear on a body, but Gloria Mitchell barely shows the effects of her long service to the Air Force.Ms. Mitchell started working as a waitress at the Mountain View Club on base in 1968. Back then, cigarettes were 36 cents a pack, minimum wage

  • Kirtland AFB officials submit three revised remediation plans

    Air Force officials delivered three required work plans on remediation of the fuel plume to the New Mexico Environment Department today. The plans outline the actions proposed by the Air Force and its contractor, Shaw Environmental and Infrastructure, Inc., in response to NMED's letters of April 2

  • Pan-STARRS telescope system discovers asteroid

    An exciting discovery occurred this September when Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System researchers discovered an asteroid that came within 4 million miles of Earth in mid October.The asteroid is about 150 feet in diameter, and was about 20 million miles away when discovered. Given the