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  • 22nd Maintenance Group member earns spotlight performer

    Senior Airman Melissa Hof, 22nd Maintenance Group knowledge operations manager, has been in the Air Force for four years. She has been stationed at McConnell for three and a half years. Her main hobbies include finishing her education, reading and spending time with friends.Who is the most positive

  • McConnell completes global response exercise

    Airmen at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., participated in a Global Response Exercise June 22-28 testing the installation's ability to rapidly deploy and sustain operations from a remote location.The exercise was a U.S. Strategic Command-led exercise performed along with other Air Mobility Command

  • 22nd ARW commander returns to McConnell

    Good Morning Team McConnell (Airpower!!!),I'm excited about getting home today after being TDY most of this week. Congrats to all of you who were promoted yesterday and more congrats are in order because four of our teammates have been nominated for the for the Lance P. Sijan Award:Junior Enlisted -

  • First to respond: Instrument, flight control systems Airmen

    The Airmen of the instrument and flight controls shop are the first to respond if anything malfunctions with avionics systems, radar, video display, automatic flight control and fuel management systems.To view the slideshow, click here.

  • Aviation fuel savings: AMC leading the charge

    Air Mobility Command has the largest fleet of the biggest airframes in the Air Force and they are the Department of Defense's largest aviation fuel customer consuming 28 percent of DODs energy use, but AMC is leading the charge in making energy a consideration in everything they do. During the third

  • Flint family earns YoAFF spotlight

    Team McConnell would like to honor Staff Sgt. Louis Flint, III, 22nd Civil Engineer Squadron domestic engineer, his wife Melissa, homemaker and key spouse member, their 6-year-old daughter Lily and 3-year-old son Louie by giving them a Year of the Air Force Family Spotlight award. The award is an

  • 22nd Medical Support Squadron member earns spotlight performer

    Staff Sgt. Daniel Mills, Support Squadron medical laboratory technician, has been in the Air Force for five years. The Tupelo, Miss., native has been stationed at McConnell for three years. His main hobbies are playing sports, reading history books, and spending time with his wife and daughter. Who

  • McConnell participates in multi-lateral exercise

    Team McConnell Airmen recently returned after concluding participation in a multi-lateral exercise in the northwestern United States June 25. The exercise, a 10-day joint operation that included Army participation, tested not only McConnell's non-stop Special Operations Air Refueling capabilities

  • Commander offers gratitude about NORE

    Team McConnell (Airpower!!!),Wow what great effort I've seen on our Nuclear Operational Readiness Exercise this week. Several of you got to practice being augmentees in the cargo yard and you had a pretty exciting Thursday night/Friday morning. Many more or you practiced deploying to a forward