McChord Air Force Base News

Leaning forward in the classroom's rocking chair, U.S. Representative Dave Reichert had a message to impart: To live life with the heart of a servant.

Flags, families and thousands of veterans will be in Auburn on Saturday to honor Americaa TMs veterans at 44th Annual Veterans Day Observance and Parade.

Sketch drawing of a C-141 Star-Lifter on the runway with Mt. Rainier in the background at McChord Air Force Base.

Tech. Sgt. Alexander Almonte helps guide Nabil Salman and Abdqader Umer to assemble a cabinet by hand Oct.

About 120 members of McChord Air Force Base's 10th Airlift Squadron are scheduled to return today from a four-month deployment to the Middle East.

McChord Air Force Base will hold a military retiree appreciation day and health fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the McChord Community/Collocated Club.

Agent Orange. Gulf War Syndrome. Now, burn pit smoke? Senior Airman Julianne Showalter Master Sgt.

Senior Airman Raymond Jones, 332nd Expeditionary Communications Squadron plans and programming project manager, inventories donations on their way to wounded servicemembers at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, Oct.

Flags, families and thousands of veterans will be in Auburn on Saturday, Nov. 7 to honor Americaa TMs veterans at Auburn's 44th Annual Veterans Day Parade and Observance.

Air Force loadmasters assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron conduct an airdrop from a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft Sept.

In what's billed by the candidates as a contest between the insider and the outsider, the race for Tacoma's at-large city council seat pits Victoria Woodards against Keven Rojecki.

Southbound traffic on Interstate 5 faced a massive backup for two hours Wednesday afternoon after a semitrailer drove into an overpass.

The Air Force will open a new airstrip Saturday at the Army's Camp Guernsey Field, Wyo., according to a news release from McChord Air Force Base, Wash.

Airmen from McChord Air Force Base, Wash., and Hickam AFB, Hawaii, and Air Mobility Command civilians offload Federal Emergency Management Agency cargo from a C-17 Globemaster III Oct.

9, 2009, at Minangkabau International Airport in Padang, Indonesia. Airmen of the 36th Mobility Response Squadron from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, use a forklift to off-load cargo from a C-17 Globemaster III on a humanitarian mission Oct.

Joint Base Andrews, Md., earlier this month became the second joint installation in the country, as part of an ongoing consolidation process that began with the military's 2005 Base Realignment and Closure process.

The Wedding Bell has been a fixture along Tacoma's Sixth Avenue for decades, but new owner Kimberly Miller is the first to manage it by long-distance. Miller, 39, has moved to northern Virginia with her children, 8-year-old Austin and 6-year-old Lindsay, while her husband attends The National War College.

Senate deliberations regarding the future of Boeing's C-17 program were delayed Friday after an amendment by Sen.

U.S. Pacific Command is pushing relief supplies to typhoon- and earthquake-damaged areas across a wide swath of the western Pacific Ocean, officials say.

A McChord Air Force Base crew is flying a nine-person Federal Emergency Management Agency team and its telecommunications equipment to American Samoa as part of the tsunami relief effort.