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  • School safety

    They're baaaack; back in force. Dozens of them coming out of nowhere, running across yards and streets, chasing each other and sometimes running in packs. They've been absent for weeks. Their gathering place during most of the year peaceful and still. Not anymore. Yes, our kids are heading back to

  • Back to School

    It's that time of year already. Parents, rigid in joyful anticipation, have been looking forward to this for 2 months. The joy almost outweighs the agony of shopping. The mornings will soon be filled with the sounds of chattering children heading off to school. Kirtland's sidewalks and crosswalks

  • Active shooter exercise conducted at Kirtland

    The 377th Security Forces Squadron, along with more than 50 Team Kirtland volunteers, participated in an active shooter exercise here recently. The exercise was an opportunity to test and prepare first responders for real world contingencies. The exercise was monitored by exercise evaluators who

  • Twitter site up and running

    Enhanced communication in now available though Kirtland's new Twitter site. Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging service that has seen incredible growth in the last few years with more than 4 billion posts since inception, and Kirtland is now on board.Recently, Kirtland launched its

  • Air Force Research Laboratory physicist attains special recognition

    The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate here is proud to announce Venkata S.R. Gudimetla's elevation to senior member of the Optical Society of America. More than 160 OSA members were selected for this designation -- the first class of OSA members to achieve this new

  • AFOTEC hosts Kirtland Partnership Committee

    The Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center hosted members of the Kirtland Partnership Committee at its Kirtland AFB headquarters July 23 and provided them a mission update briefing and the opportunity for open discussion. "The Kirtland Partnership Committee exists to support, preserve and

  • Kirtland Airmen awarded AF Combat Action Medal

    Two Kirtland Airmen were awarded the Air Force Combat Action Medal during a commander's call on July 27.Staff Sgt. Clayton Tiemann, an EOD specialist assigned to the 377th Mission Support Group, embedded with the U.S. Army's 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry deployed to Iraq, was on a route clearance

  • Air Force Junior ROTC/Civil Air Patrol Summer Leadership School

    Every other year for the past 13 years, Sandia High School's Air Force Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps in conjunction with the New Mexico Civil Air Patrol, has hosted a summer leadership school for AFJROTC/CAP cadets from across the western United States. More than 100 basic cadets, cadet

  • Senior IAF leaders visit Kirtland AFB

    Indian Air Force (IAF) senior leaders visited the 705th Combat Training Squadron at Kirtland Air Force Base July 26 and 27. The IAF leaders were here to learn how we use simulators for different aircraft as well and how to do distributed mission operations (DMO), according to Major Mark Hadley, 705

  • Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center promotes new Senior Executive

    In a July 21 ceremony, Dr. L. Wayne Brasure, executive director of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, was promoted to the Senior Executive Service, the civilian equivalent of a general officer. Brigadier General Everett H. Thomas, AFNWC commander, presided.General Thomas welcomed members of Team