Pope Air Force Base News

John Woods, mayor of Davidson, releases the bald eagle, Liberty, in honor of North Carolina's veterans and fallen service members Saturday July 4 at the McGuire Nuclear station's EnergyExplorium.

Four airmen, three in ground combat roles, are the recipients of the 2008 Lance P. Sijan Award for leadership.

Now, it appears ten more airmen could also have H1N1. Fortunately, none of the original eight cases was severe.

Eight airmen from Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta have tested positive for the H1N1 influenza virus, commonly referred to as the swine flu.

In her short term as execu tive director of the Millbrook Chamber of Commerce, Ste phanie Godwin has had the op portunity to meet with, get the word out about, and support many area businesses.

After serving 15 months in Iraq, Sgt. 1st Class Boe and Sgt. 1st Class Budge, 528th Combat Stress Control, 44th Medical Command, made the march across the tarmac at Green Ramp on Pope Air Force Base June 6. The 528th CSC, 44th MEDCOM's mission in Iraq was to treat deployed Soldiers for any stress they may have experienced while overseas.

The commander of Pope Air Force Base has been removed from his job and reassigned to a base in Illinois.

The Rural Economic Development Institute graduated 32 people this month, including several from Western North Carolina, after an intensive, three-month leadership training program.

An Air Force airman from Indianapolis will be laid to rest Tuesday. She was killed last week in Afghanistan.

Troops from North Carolina bases are participating in the final day of the observance of the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France.

More than 75 people, including local leaders, gathered at a small base in Afghanistan on Sunday to honor the four members of the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team who were killed May 26 by a suicide car bomber.

Eight more Americans and one Egyptian employee of the U.S. government pay the ultimate priced in the war theaters overseas.

Kari Spencer and Justin Dyke are announcing their engagement and forthcoming marriage.

A young Indianapolis woman who enjoyed serving her country as a member of the Air Force has been killed in a bomb explosion in Afghanistan.

May 28, 2009 In a May 28 story about an airman's death in Afghanistan, The Associated Press, relying on a military news release, erroneously reported that Senior Airman Ashton L. M. Goodman of Indianapolis was the fourth airman from Pope Air Force Base killed in action since Sept.

The Air Force has identified two members killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan as a Pentagon officer and an airman.

The military says a North Carolina-based airman has been killed in Afghanistan. The Department of Defense said Wednesday that Senior Airman Ashton L. M. Goodman of Indianapolis died Tuesday near Bagram Air Field from wounds she sustained from an improvised explosive device.

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Jittery residents of this small North Carolina town are waiting to see whether more charges will be brought in an investigation of police corruption and asking why town leaders didn't deal with problems years earlier.

Tech. Sgt. Marilou Vaughan , a 379th Expeditionary Medical Group Blood Transshipment Center lab technician, shows Staff Sgt.