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  • 22nd CES Airmen repair runway

    Personnel assigned to the 22nd Civil Engineer Squadron repair a spall on the flightline May 3, 2021, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. A spall is a five-foot-wide hole that has the potential to negatively affect McConnell’s air refueling operations. Airmen assigned to repair the airfield enable

  • Total Force medics help support FEMA in vaccine efforts

    As of April 29, approximately 1.5 million people worldwide have tested positive for COVID-19, making vaccination efforts more crucial than ever. A team of approx. 140 Airmen from 24 bases spread throughout the U.S. have come together in St. Paul, Minn., to help support the Federal Emergency

  • Search and recovery training exercised at McConnell

    Senior Airman Tierra Brown, 22nd Force Support Squadron storeroom manager, tags the location of simulated remains during an exercise April 22, 2021, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. When an object is found, the team will pause to allow proper handling and tagging, ensuring the item is recovered

  • 22nd MDG to launch new electronic healthcare record system

    McConnell will be joining several other Department of Defense installations by transitioning to Military Health System Genesis, a new electronic health record that will provide enhanced, secure technology to manage health information, beginning April 24.

  • Child resiliency in the military

    MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, Kan. -- Many children raised in the military community understand what it means to have their parents leave for deployment or what it feels like to leave friends and family every few years. Despite the challenges, these military children learn to grow wherever they are

  • Medics to help with U.S. COVID relief

    Approximately 25 tanker medics from McConnell’s 22nd Medical Group help make life-saving vaccines readily available to the American people.