• Airman for a day

    Col. Joel Jackson, 22nd Air Refueling Wing commander, recently began a new program designed to give him a closer look on how the Airmen of Team McConnell accomplish their mission.The program gives Jackson the chance to spend an hour or two with Airmen from different squadrons across the base and see

  • Modern-day blacksmiths

    Faint noises of welding, grinding and rock-and-roll music can be heard roaming from the 22nd Maintenance Squadron's metals technology shop.Inside, Airmen work with precision tools, gauges, dies, and fixtures to craft and repair parts for KC-135 Stratotankers and attend to most other metal repairing

  • 22nd ARW Airman earns spotlight performer

    As a spotlight performer, individuals are chosen by leadership for demonstrating the Air Force's Core Values: Integrity First, Service Before Self, and Excellence in All We Do.Airman 1st Class Darin Syra, 22nd Air Refueling Wing command post controller, was chosen as the 22nd ARW spotlight performer

  • Revamped BE WELL program offers more

    The Air Force has recently implemented changes to the BE WELL program in order to benefit the fitness and health of Airmen.The changes, which took effect July 1, downsized BE WELL sessions from three-hour-long sessions filled with generic information to half-hour, one-on-one meetings with

  • Base honor guard shows respects

    Airmen from the 22nd Air Refueling Wing Honor Guard participated in a memorial dedicated to the deceased members of a retired air wing Sept. 16, 2013, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. The group marked the end of the memorial by rendering a 21-gun salute and playing the traditional military song

  • Letter from 18th AF Commander

    Happy Birthday, U.S. Air ForceToday, as every day, I am proud to be an American Airman.As someone who has lived all but a handful of years of our Air Force's history, I have a deep and abiding love for our service ... and especially the Airmen who made it (and continue to make it) the finest in the

  • Resiliency key to healthy military life

    Staying strong doesn't always mean being able to run a mile and a half in 10 minutes or doing more pushups than the next Airman over.It can often mean simply overcoming challenges and obstacles that might come up throughout the life of a military member, and members of Team McConnell are trying to

  • Deployed innovation saves 11 Airmen

    After twelve years of KC-135 Stratotanker operations here, it would be fair to assume that all possible missions that the venerable tanker is capable of performing had been done.Last week the members of the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron performed the first patient transport employing

  • 22nd AMDS Airman earns spotlight performer

    As a spotlight performer, individuals are chosen by leadership for demonstrating the Air Force's Core Values: Integrity First, Service Before Self, and Excellence in All We Do.Senior Airman Quintin Labs, 22nd Aerospace Medical Squadron bioenvironmental engineering technician, was selected as the