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  • Renovations underway at Wherry Elementary

    Demolition work that is part of major renovations to Kirtland's Wherry Elementary School is visible to anyone entering Kirtland's Gibson gate, and more signs ofprogress are on the way.Wherry's principal, Rhonda McGee, said members of the school community are getting excited as old parts of the

  • Kirtland Warrior: Staff Sgt. Daniel Lohmiller

     KIRTLAND WARRIORName: Staff Sgt. Daniel LohmillerUnit: 58th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron DutyTitle: CV-22 Tiltrotor Maintenance ApprenticeHometown: Soldiers Grove, Wisc.Goals: Earn bachelor's degree in radiology, build a rock crawler, finish 7-level upgrade training and course 15 before the end of

  • Kirtland youth produce clay animation short 'Fluffyland'

    Five Kirtland youth had a chance to get creative and work as a team to produce their own short animated film "Fluffyland: An Alternate Universe."The students, taking part in a stop-motion animation class at the Kirtland Arts and Crafts Center, created clay characters and used art supplies and random

  • AFRL telescope spots asteroid's moon

    In a first for the Air Force, scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Starfire Optical Range used its 3.5-meter telescope and adaptive optics with a laser guidestar to capture the image of a moon named Romulus around the asteroid Sylvia.  The telescope, which measures 3.5-meter (11.5

  • Rafting trip shows Airmen beauty of high desert

    Outdoor Recreation rafting trips offer Airmen a well-deserved dose of adventure, complete with sunshine, a bracing dash of cold river water and the rugged beauty of northern New Mexico.Cliff Loucks, a volunteer rafting guide, it's a great chance to tour the state."We get the young Airmen off the

  • Kirtland Fitness Center issues running challenge

    A new program at the base fitness center challenges Team Kirtland run roughly the highway distance between Albuquerque and San Diego, 750 miles, in a year.That is the target distance for "Run New Mexico," from July 1 to June 30, 2016.Jonathan Varela, a recreation assistant at the center, said Run

  • Medical Group gets new leader at change of command ceremony

    The 377th Medical Group change of command ceremony was held Thursday morning and set against a backdrop of the Sandia Mountains and blue skies outside the Mountain View Club.Col. Eric Froehlich, commander of the 377th Air Base Wing, said he had only recently met incoming commander, Col. Jeffrey

  • AFRL hosts open house for community leaders

    The Air Force Research Laboratory opened up its doors to local dignitaries and community leaders during an open house event.AFRL hosted the open house to better acquaint the community with its mission and the science and technology projects the unit's scientists and engineers are working

  • Release milestone accomplished in Nevada desert as B61 upgrade progresses

    The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, in conjunction with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, conducted an inert developmental flight test of the upgraded B61 or B61-12 nuclear bomb July 1 from Nellis AFB, Nev.An

  • Kirtland Warrior: Tech. Sgt. Charles Davis

     Name: Tech. Sgt. Charles DavisUnit: Air Force Nuclear Weapons CenterDuty Title: NCOIC, Nuclear MissionsHometown: Hickman, KentuckyGoals: To complete his bachelor's degree in construction management at National University by the end of 2016. He hopes to make master sergeant this testing cycle and