AFMC Command News

  • Future heroes in training: Tinker hosts first Junior Firefighter Camp

    Tinker’s very first Junior Firefighter Camp gave seven future heroes a hands-on look at what it takes to serve in the fire service. Throughout the week, campers learned lifesaving skills like CPR and first aid, practiced search and rescue techniques, mastered ropes and knots, and even trained with

  • Preaching with Pace

    It’s a hot day on the base track as the photographer checks his settings and composes the shot. He yells “go” and our subject launches from all fours with jackrabbit acceleration. Eight very quick, pounding strides later the side-to-side shoulder rocking stops, eyes rise from feet to foreground, and

  • Operation KUDOS helps children understand deployment

    The Kids Understanding Deployment Operations event hosted 40 families with 80 kids, ranging from ages 4 to 13, who proceeded through different deployment stations such as a mock fitness test and obstacle course, fire and emergency services, security forces, medical and the explosive ordnance

  • Teen daughter of Air Force family writes children’s book

    “Betty Bubblegum was a sassy-sweet, fearless animal lover who spent her weekends riding horses, wearing brave fashion accessories, and adventuring with her friend, a good-natured service dog named Emily,” so starts the recently published children’s book by 13-year-old Brianna Heim. The book is

  • Against all odds: Air Force family overcomes adversity

    The Giles were presented with a spectrum of possibilities of outcomes for their tiny newborn daughter. They finally were able to determine she had suffered a brain hemorrhage and was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy (CP). The Giles were faced with a future of uncertainties for the health and wellbeing