Holloman Air Force Base News

As local residents crowd the movie theaters to see "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" they might notice some familiar faces.

Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 29, 2009 at 8:19 p.m. TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla.

Actor Shia LeBeouf runs past an Abrams tank, left, and an M113 armored personnel carrier on loan from Fort Bliss in a scene from "Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen" filmed last year at White Sands Missile Range.

The Predator drones may be the future of air warfare in the computer age. For years, training and operation for the unmanned fighter planes has taken place in southern Nevada.

The Otero and Lincoln county sheriff's departments have combined their resources to offer preventative and safety programs to citizens.

Two military bases are once again playing a role in the new Transformers movie. Holloman Air Force Base and White Sands Missile Range are both featured in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", the sequel to the 2007 movie.

HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE Airmen are calmly going about their business, honing their expeditionary skills and preparing for possible deployment overseas to potentially hostile territory.

Holloman Air Force Base members render a final salute to Army Spc. Christopher Kurth June 11 at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., The Soldier was killed in a grenade attack June 4 near Kirkuk, Iraq.

While visiting Holloman Air Force Base, I began to remember how cool it was to hang out at a military base.

I know the economy is not in very good shape. When I read about possible school closings at Holloman Air Force Base and in Otero County, it is sad that our children and their parents are being uprooted from a secure setting to an unknown one.

Concerned parents whose children attend Holloman Middle School and High Rolls Elementary will conduct two separate meetings next week to discuss the possible closure of the respective schools.

's sandbox, everyone is a toy soldier. Deep amid the luminous dunes of New Mexico's white gypsum desert, the filmmaker's deeply sunburned battalion of crew workers constructed a set to resemble a sandblasted Egyptian town beside a massive ancient temple.

During Wednesday's testimony at the murder trial of Graciela Guerra, her son, Christian, took the stand and talked about the events of May 13, 2008 - the day his wife, Brenda, was fatally stabbed.

Officials with the 49th Medical Group at Holloman Air Force Base have announced a mild case of the H1N1 influenza virus.

Bruce Carlson, a former head of the 8th Air Force at Barksdale Air Force Base, Friday was named 17th director of the National Reconnaissance Office by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

Editor's note: Police logs are provided to the Daily News by the Alamogordo Department of Public Safety.

Members of the Patriot Guard Riders and Holloman Air Force Base Steel Talons Honor Guard pay their respects as the caisson of Army Spec.

A 22-year-old Holloman Air Force Base airman continues to be in intensive care after he was shot at the Alamo Apartment complex in the 100 block of Crews Avenue on June 2, an Alamogordo Department of Public Safety spokesman said.

Dave Simons awoke aboard Man High II and radioed "he was completely disoriented," a 1958 article "Wonders of the Universe" reported.

A 22-year-old man from Holloman Air Force Base is in critical condition at an El Paso hospital after he was shot at the Alamo Apartment complex in the 100 block of Crews Avenue around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, an Alamogordo Department of Public Safety spokesman said.