AFMC Command News

  • Airman injured in Afghanistan one year ago passes away

    The 88th Communication Squadron voice network systems technician wounded in action one year ago in Afghanistan, died Nov. 28, 2010.Senior Airman Tre Porfirio passed away while visiting friends over the Thanksgiving holiday in Missouri. He was 22 years old. "We are all deeply saddened by the tragic

  • Digital close air support improvements on the way

    Airmen on the ground whose mission is to help deliver close air support will soon receive a set of tools that will help them do their jobs better while lightening the loads they're required to carry.Tactical Air Control Party Airmen are assigned with Army units who engage in all levels of

  • Feature: Tinker family turns loss into mission of hope for other families

    For Staff Sgt. Van Stewart and his wife Stephanie Stewart, there is no pausing, stuttering or hesitating when asked how many children they have. The answer is three, and one of them is an angel.Three-year-old Vashon is hard to miss. He's the little guy running around, giving his mother and father

  • Edwards wing tests Global Hawk with alternative fuel for first time

    An RQ-4 Global Hawk completed a 32-hour flight test using an alternative fuel mixture, Nov. 23, 2010.The 412th Test Wing's Global Vigilance Combined Test Force's Block 20 Global Hawk took off at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 22 and became the first remotely piloted aircraft to fly using the Fischer-Tropsch

  • Air Force announces new Air Force Museum director

    The Air Force announced Dec. 2, 2010, the assignment of Senior Executive Service member and retired Air Force Lt. Gen. John "Jack" L. Hudson as Director of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, effective Dec. 16, 2010. He will replace Senior Executive

  • Commentary: Fall In!

    What images come to mind when you hear the command "Fall in"? As a military member, you might recall the beginning of your career, with the T.I. in the 'Smokey the Bear' hat and dark-colored sunglasses screaming as you raced off the bus. As a civilian, you mightremember scenes from military movies

  • AEDC earns command-level environmental award

    As a major environmental cleanup project at Arnold Engineering Development Center starts to wind down, the work being done to restore the environment here is getting some prestigious recognition.The base recently earned the Air Force Gen. Thomas D. White Environmental Restoration Program Award for

  • Band of Flight ensemble returns home from 120-day deployment

    A deployed ensemble from the Band of Flight returned here Nov. 20, 2010, after a 120-day deployment onboard the USS Iwo Jima. New Harmony's 10-member ensemble returned after traveling to eight different countries in Central and South America in support of the U.S. Navy's Continuing Promise 2010. The

  • C2 Constellation still integrating, piece by piece

    A program initiated ten years ago as a grand attempt to integrate all command and control systems continues to contribute to that goal today, though in a different way.While the C2 Constellation began as an effort to build an overarching architecture for all C2 systems, work now focuses on specific

  • Major AWACS upgrade begins

    The next step in the largest block upgrade in the history of the E-3 Sentry, or Airborne Warning and Control System, aircraft occurred Nov. 18, 2010, at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., when the first aircraft receiving the block 40/45 modification was inducted by the Oklahoma City Air Logistics

  • Code talkers share stories, honor vets

    Two members of the World War II Navajo Code Talkers took part in a ceremony Nov. 10 here to pay tribute to veterans..Peter MacDonald and Roy Hawthorne were both Navajo Code Talkers during World War II. As with all code talkers, they served in the Marine Corps. Although both men served as a code

  • Air Force announces senior leader changes

    The Air Force announced Nov. 18, 2010, the reassignment of Brig. Gen. Everett H. Thomas, commander of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Air Force Materiel Command, to vice commander at Headquarters Air Force Global Strike Command, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. Brig. Gen. Garrett Harencak, currently

  • Clean, low-energy solutions sought for mammoth program

    Ongoing technical and cost analyses could lead program officials to seek a mixture of alternative energy sources to fuel the next generation of massive ground-based radars that will track space objects and debris.Last month, the Electronic Systems Center here released a Request for Proposal

  • New video gives snapshot of complex AFMC mission

    From researching groundbreaking technology to maintaining the Air Force fleet of aircraft, Air Force Materiel Command has the most diverse mission in the Air Force. And now, with the release of the official command video, anyone can learn more about that mission. View here.Clocking in at just under

  • Commentary: Back to the basics means doing things right the first time

    Basic mistakes in anyone's work will jeopardize production time and drive additional funding. It does not matter what your job or craft is; if you are working for the Air Force, your job is to support our ultimate objectives to fly, fight and win. Without your support and work ethic, planes would