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  • Fire department helps battle off-base blaze

    Even through 40-mile-per-hour winds, slick roads and a snow storm, McConnell firefighters rushed to the scene of a multi-agency, house fire, Dec. 9, in a local Sedgwick County community. McConnell Assistant Fire Chief, Randal Cunningham, and firefighter, Airman 1st Class Christopher Vullmahn, joined

  • FTAC Airmen soar sky-high, learn base’s mission

    A group of 23 Airmen from McConnell's First Term Airman's Center participate in a KC-135 Stratotanker flight, Dec.11, to learn about McConnell's primary mission of aerial refueling. Upon taking command of the 22nd Air Refueling Wing in February, Col. James Vechery instituted a new program at

  • New policy comes to McConnell

    McConnell Air Force Base will convert to 7-digit telephone dialing on Dec. 15. This is part of an Air Force effort to standardize telephone switches and calling methods across all Air Force bases. All callers will dial 7 digits to contact other callers on McConnell. All other dialing sequences

  • Wanna make an Air Force commercial?

    Senior leaders are asking Airmen to get behind the camera and submit a video for the next Air Force advertising campaign. The contest has begun and runs through Jan. 9. Airmen are encouraged to create a video depicting what they do to support the Air Force mission, as well as highlight why people

  • McConnell tanker refuels new C-5M 'Super Galaxy' test aircraft

    A McConnell KC-135 Stratotanker executed the first operational refueling of a fully upgraded C-5M Super Galaxy test aircraft on Dec. 3. The Lockheed Martin C-5M test aircraft is one of only three Air Force wide, equipped with enhancements such as CF6 engines, pylons and auxiliary power units and a

  • SATAF gets total-force welcome

    A Site Activation Task Force arrived Dec. 2 to help plan significant growth within the 931st Air Refueling Group. Known as a SATAF, the task force received a total-force welcome that included personal greetings from Col. Edsel A. "Archie" Frye Jr., 931st ARG commander, and Col. James C. Vechery,

  • Paving the way for a new travel reimbursement process

    Air Force finance officials are implementing ways to improve customer service to Airmen with process changes, said the director of the Secretary of the Air Force Financial Management Process Improvement and Integrations Office. "This has been a rocky road for some Air Force travelers," said