• Commander speaks about heritage week

    Team McConnell (Airpower),We've had a great week celebrating our Air Force's 63rd birthday and we were honored to have three guests as part of our Heritage Speaker Series. Sept. 20, Dr. Lou Smith, a high school classmate of one of the McConnell brothers, shared his experiences as a B-17 Flying

  • Commander invites Airmen to Open House

    Team McConnell (Airpower!!!),It's almost time for our Open House/Air Show and things remain busy across the base. Last night we had some severe weather that produced damaging hail and I know many of you are dealing with clean up or assessment of aircraft. Fortunately, we had good weather last Friday

  • Vice commander speaks on future events

    Team McConnell (Airpower), Great job this week during our Major Accident Response Exercise. A MARE is required to be accomplished before every Air Show/Open House. I'm positive we're well prepared as we quickly approach our Open House weekend.As a reminder, reference an email I sent out earlier this

  • 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

  • Commander speaks about upcoming events

    Team McConnell (Airpower!!!),Our wing is blazing right now (just like our summer temperatures) and we're zipping through our change of command season. Yesterday, we welcomed Maj. Amy Harshner as our new 22nd Contracting Squadron commander and today, Lt. Col. George "Dutch" Dietrich will hand the

  • 22nd ARW commander enjoys fun run

    Team McConnell (Airpower!!!),We're half way through the Critical Days of Summer and you've been doing a great job of making good decisions and staying safe. Yesterday morning nearly 200 of us got to run through the Krueger Recreation Area and my hat's off to the 22nd Civil Engineer Squadron for

  • Commander answers Airmen's questions at all call

    The following statements are taken from the commander's call July 7.Exercise:1. "What's the NORE feedback?"A: The hot wash will be next Tuesday and we will have more feedback then. Both myself and the chief of XP are satisfied with our performance. Captain Vanagas said, "We learned some valuable

  • Commander recognizes senior airmen and staff sergeant

    Last night ALS class 10-E graduated and it was an outstanding ceremony. Col Archie Frye, 931 ARG/CC, was the guest speaker and he shared the story of a motivational staff sergeant who changed his life when he was young airmen. Senior Airman Dustin Bordelon, 22nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, won

  • 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 -

  • 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