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  • Children's Dental Health Month spotlights healthy smiles

    February is National Children's Dental Health Month, and members of the 22nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron base dental clinic will be visiting McConnell children's centers around base to help educate them on the importance of good dietary habits and proper toothbrushing techniques.Parents are also

  • New tax law affords military spouses' legal residence privileges

    The president signed a Senate bill Nov. 11, which passed Public Law 111-97, the "Military Spouses Residency Relief Act."The MSRRA amends the Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act and affords servicemembers' spouses an opportunity to maintain legal residency in their home states for tax and voting

  • Team McConnell announces Quarterly Award Winners

    Congratulations to Team McConnell's 2009 fourth quarter award winners. The winners were announced Jan. 22 at an award banquet at the Robert J. Dole Center ballroom. AirmanSenior Airman Kevin Yeates, 22nd Medical Operations SquadronNon Commissioned OfficerStaff Sgt. Stacey Clouse, 22nd Medical

  • McConnell money managers earn MAJCOM award

    A 'Top dollar" leader and a civilian financial guru from the 22nd Comptroller Squadron here earned Air Mobility Command-level financial management awards recently. Maj. Edward Marshall, Jr., 22nd CPTS commander, was selected as the AMC Maj. Gen. Frank R. Faykes Financial Manager and Comptroller of

  • Airman returns from deployment, meets newborn

    A McConnell Airman met his 4-month-old son for the first time, Jan. 6, at Mid-Continent Airport, Wichita, after arriving home from a six-month deployment.Senior Airman Joshua Jackson's wife, Tiffany, was three-months pregnant, when he deployed from the 22nd Logistics Readiness Squadron here to

  • TACP controllers killed and wounded in action

    The Air Force suffered a loss Jan. 3 with news of an attack on a joint tactical air control team embedded with an Army infantry company in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The team was ambushed by numerous enemy force improvised explosive devices that mortally wounded Senior Airman Bradley Smith and injuring