Langley Air Force Base News

Two gates will be closed in the morning at Langley Air Force Base as a result of coastal flooding.

Published: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 8:01 p.m. Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles this week profiling our local veterans in honor of Veterans Day.

For 12 years, Jim Rubin was charged with making sure numerous floats, scout troops and bands were lined up in what he said became one of the state's largest parades of its kind.

They sliced a ribbon on a temporary building, put shovels to dirt for a new one and busted through the concrete of a 1950s-era building with an excavator - all in the span of 20 minutes.

Open up "The Box" at movie theaters this weekend and you'll see some 200 local folks.

Getting a job through the Air Force doesn't always include working on base. Twenty employees were hired at American Power Supply in Columbus in September, pushing the total number of employees to 95, after the clothing manufacturer began assembling the Air Force's new physical training uniforms.

People began lining up at the Hampton Health Department on Victoria Boulevard at 5 in the morning Monday, three hours before the department opened its doors for its first public H1N1 flu immunization clinic.

The Afghanistan Pakistan Hands program was established by Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and will change the paradigm of counterinsurgency forces.

Having a 20-something daughter myself, I could identify with Kevin Slucter's anxiety.

Freddy, the 1st Fighter Wing Public Affairs' jack-o'-lantern, dons a reflective belt in preparation for a safe Halloween at Langley Air Force Base, Va.

Holloman will open it's gates to the public during the 2009 Open House from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, giving the community an opportunity to witness what Team Holloman does daily to defend America.

Had he not received a call from Uncle Sam, Carlton C. Brown might have become a professional photographer or engraver.

The Hawaii Air National Guard has sent the first of its 22 pilots to be trained at a Florida base to fly the highly sophisticated, single-seat F-22 Raptor jet fighter.

The United States Air Force Heartland of America Banda s New Horizons clarinet ensemble will perform at 7 p.m. Monday in the Albert Lea High School auditorium.

North King Street in Hampton is where people go when they're going someplace else.

Now what? That's the question faced by women who've had a mastectomy after a diagnosis of breast cancer .

The featured speaker for the annual Albert Lea-Freeborn County Chamber of Commerce meeting on Oct.

Gen. William M. Fraser III shakes hands with Staff Sgt. Ae Khone Sappasith during an Oct.

More airplanes are flying today than at the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a feat the Air Force attributes mostly to the hard work and ingenuity of maintainers.

Areas near Langley Air Force Base in Hampton will be sprayed for mosquitoes on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evening, the Air Force said.