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  • Airmen celebrate National Nutrition Month

    March is National Nutrition Month, a time to focus and re-emphasize the importance of eating right and getting plenty of exercise--time well spent for Airmen wishing to reach an "Excellent" score on their physical fitness tests.This year's theme, "Eat Right with Color," emphasizes including a

  • Airman falls to rise as fitness success

    The strict environment of basic military training produces Airmen at a peak of their fitness, but maintaining it for one McConnell Airmen was a challenge and a way to success. In 2007 Staff Sgt. Kathryn Trinidad, 22nd Operation Group analyst, arrived at McConnell in "the best shape of her life."

  • McConnell to make CWC history

    More than donning the "general issue" gas mask, McConnell is taking a historic step by hosting a chemical weapons convention exercise March 28 to April 1, 2011.The CWC will be Air Mobility Commands first base-wide, CWC 301 Mock On-Site inspection. The CWC is a multi-national arms control treaty that

  • 22nd AMDS member earns spotlight performer

    Staff Sgt. Matthew Rosenfeldt, 22nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron Industrial Hygiene Element NCOIC, has been in the Air Force for six and a half years. He has spent two and a half years at McConnell. Sergeant Rosenfeldt's hobbies include fishing, camping, hunting, softball and football. Who is the

  • Invisible wounds

    As deployment rates continue to climb, and the jobs exceed the number of available workers, Airmen may forget to keep their guard up for one of their deadliest foes and greatest allies- their mental health ."We provide our Airmen the best equipment in the entire would, without a doubt, but it's the