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  • Base donates used computers to community

    Ever wonder what happens to old government desktop computers, laptops and printers? Did you think they were just thrown into the garbage or transferred far, far away to the vast stockpile of old government junk? Sometimes that happens, but not if Kirtland's leadership has their way. With the

  • Volunteers needed to mail holiday cards

    Any holiday can be hard without a loved one, but being deployed overseas without your sweetheart on Valentine's Day can be particularly rough - but Airmen can still send a card home to their valentine. Albuquerque resident Sarah Coca has been soliciting donations from local and nationwide businesses

  • News Briefs

    Base closures impact testing If the base commander declares delayed reporting due to inclement weather, the testing period will also be delayed for the same amount of time for WAPS, AFCT, AFOQT, DLAB, DLPT and EDPT testing. For instance, if testing is scheduled for 7:30 a.m. and there is a two-hour

  • National Prayer Breakfast held here Feb. 15

    This year, Kirtland's National Prayer Breakfast will be Feb. 15 at 7 a.m. at the Mountain View Club. The guest speaker will be Chap. (Brig. Gen.) Cecil Richardson, deputy chief of the Chaplain Services for the U.S. Air Force. The purpose of the occasion is to bring together the leadership of the

  • New honor guard NCOIC brings Hawaiian style

    Hawaiian music echoes throughout the honor guard office here. A new noncommissioned officer has just arrived and brings with him the spirit of the islands. Staff Sgt. Kamuela Alesna has only been at Kirtland just over a year, but he has already made his mark. Sergeant Alesna will take over the reins

  • SFS takes DOD anti-terrorism award honorable mention

    Kirtland is a unique base in that there are so many associate units here, but the cooperation between those units is what helped the base to earn an honorable mention for the Department of Defense Best Installation Anti-terrorism award for 2005. "This award is justification for all of our hard work