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  • Airfield management personnel keep runways safe

    Airmen from the 22nd Operations Support Squadron airfield management flight coordinate flight plans, maintain publications for pilots, monitor aircraft that land at McConnell and perform lighting and runway checks.Airfield management personnel oversee McConnell's 654 acre airfield and ensure all the

  • McConnell completes MARE

    McConnell Airmen and local emergency response offices tested their ability to respond to a mass casualty scenario, Sept. 1, 2010, on McConnell's flightline.One of McConnell's priorities as a base is to be ready for anything, the base held the Major Accident Response Exercise to prepare for the

  • 22nd Contracting Squadron earns spotlight performer

    Airman 1st Class Christopher Pasco, 22nd Contracting Squadron contracting specialist, has been in the Air Force for more than one year and has been stationed at McConnell for seven months. Airman Pasco's hobbies include weight lifting, running, mixed martial arts, reading books, riding his

  • From the AMC commander: A message to Mobility Airmen

    As we look toward the Labor Day holiday and the end of the active summer months, I want to take a moment and tell you how very proud I am of the work you are doing here at home and around the world.Each of you is making a difference in our world every day. Whether you're supporting the mission from

  • Vice commander tells about upcoming week

    Team McConnell (Airpower!!!),This week, Col. Jamie Crowhurst and Chief Master Sgt. Michael Edwards attended the 18 AF Conference in San Antonio.Here is some information for next week's important events. Tuesday is a promotion ceremony at the Dole Center. On Wednesday, we will prepare ourselves for

  • McConnell Airmen complete historic exercise

    McConnell participated in a historic exercise that required more than 100 Airmen and four KC-135 Stratotankers to forward deploy to Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D. Aug.15 to 19.The three-day deployment, conducted as part of a nuclear operational readiness exercise, was the first to be performed