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  • Passing the torch of fire prevention

    The 49th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Protection Flight observed national Fire Prevention Week Oct. 3 through 9 with various activities surrounding this year's theme -- "Beep, Beep, Beep ... Smoke detectors -- a sound you can live with."The flight kicked off activities with a carnival at the Youth

  • Team Holloman gives blood, life

    The Armed Services Blood Program held a blood drive at the Community Activities Center Oct. 4, 2010. The blood drive was open to servicemembers, their families and anyone able to get on base.All donations from the drive go directly to military hospitals and to war-fighters over-seas."The blood that

  • Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Join the fight

    In 2006, more than 110 women died every day from one disease: breast cancer.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, these are the facts. However, here's the kicker:That death rate is an improvement. The Susan G. Komen Web site states that in the past 35 years, the death rate

  • 'Fightin' 49ers' return from deployment to Japan

    After four months, numerous flights aboard C-17s and stops in Hawaii, the 7th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron returned to Holloman Oct. 1, 2010.Members from the 49th Maintenance Group, 49th Operations Group, 49th Mission Support Group and the 44th Fighter Group left May 27, 2010, for the first major

  • 8th AMU settles in to renovated building

    On Sept. 16, the ribbon was officially cut on the renovated facility for the 8th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, one of two maintenance units in the 49th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron.The event was hosted by Col. Donald Van Patten, 49th Maintenance Group commander, and attended by Col. Kevin Huyck, 49th

  • Holloman holds POW, MIA remembrance ceremony

    Each year, Team Holloman pays tribute to the American men and women of the armed forces who are missing in action and never returned home from combat, and to those who faced unthinkable suffering as prisoners of war in distant lands in the pursuit of defending American lives and liberties.This year,

  • CFC kicks off with bigger goal than ever before

     The 2010 Combined Federal Campaign kicked off Sept. 24 with a burger burn at the Domenici Fitness and Sports Center, allowing Team Holloman to hear what CFC is all about, giving them a chance to donate while also enjoying a free lunch.The CFC is the world's largest annual workplace charity campaign

  • Military voting: focus of new law and automation

    Sept. 18, 2010 is the 45th day prior to a general election mark. Starting with the Nov. 2, 2010 general elections, states must send ballots to military voters 45 days before the election, both by traditional mail and at least one means of electronic transmission, such as email, fax or online ballot