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  • McConnell congratulates newest SMSgt selects

    Air Force officials selected 1,269 of 13,741 eligible master sergeants for promotion to senior master sergeant for a selection rate of 9.24 percent.Team McConnell would like to congratulate the following master sergeants here who were selected for promotion to senior master sergeant. Toby Beadnell,

  • AFAF extends to Air Force family

    During any servicemember's life, a crisis may arise unexpectedly that is not only mentally and physically challenging, but financially challenging as well.Fortunately, due to Air Force Assistance Fund, active-duty, Reserve and Guard Airmen, retired Air Force members, surviving spouses and families

  • Congratulations to the newest ALS graduates

    Team McConnell would like to congratulate the following senior airmen who graduated from the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Thomas N. Barnes Airman Leadership School here, Feb. 11, from class 10-B.22nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Michael Ferguson 22nd Communications Squadron Brandon

  • Congratulations to newest NCO Academy graduates

    Team McConnell would like to congratulate to the following technical sergeants who graduated from the Forrest L. Vosler NCO Academy on Feb. 17, at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.22nd Aircraft Maintenance SquadronChristopher AndersonJoseph Vigil22nd Maintenance SquadronBrian Merrell22nd Civil Engineer

  • McConnell leadership tours local EOC

    For more than 20 years, McConnell has partnered with Wichita emergency planners to help maximize the effectiveness of emergency response.This is why McConnell leadership and first emergency responders toured the Sedgwick County Emergency Operations Center, Feb. 19, located in downtown Wichita,

  • COMSEC: A "need to know" basis

    Every day, cyberspace hackers, criminal organizations and terrorists strike at Department of Defense computer networks, attempting to infiltrate DOD information systems by exploiting weaknesses.At all military installations, including McConnell, the threat of adversaries permeating computer accounts

  • No time outs: McConnell members save a life

    With six minutes remaining on the game clock during of an intramural basketball game here, Jan. 26, players and spectators expected to see hustling jump shots and free throws, not a referee lying on the ground.It was the longest game of Dwayne Lassiter's10-year referee's career.Yet circumstances for