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  • Golf veteran named 2009 base golf champion

    The 2009 base golf championship was held at Apache Mesa Golf Course Aug. 21 through Aug. 23 and at the end of the three-day competition, a new base champion was announced. Tommie Williams, who has been golfing here for more than 17 years, won the championship with a three-day total of 230 strikes,

  • Next-gen spacecraft stops at Holloman

    NASA's next generation of a manned-spacecraft arrived here Aug. 19 via a C-17 Globemaster III and left aboard a tractor-trailer Aug. 21 for White Sands Missile Range to conduct final checkouts with the launch abort rocket. Holloman was a vital stop in the Orion Program's Pad Abort One Crew Module's

  • 49 FW awarded Meritorious Unit Award

    Gen. John Corley, commander of Air Combat Command, recently announced the 49th Fighter Wing received the Meritorious Unit Award for the period of April 30, 2008 to May 1, 2009. "It is an honor to have such dynamic professionals as members of the Air Combat Command team," said General Corley in a

  • Big winners announced in second annual Big Give

    On July 17, eight teams set out to make people's life better in the local community of Alamogordo, N.M. The competition was designed to see which Air Force team could give back the most. The winning team of Holloman's second annual Big Give was announced during the after-party at the Desert Sands

  • Airmen prepare Iraqi's to fight the flames

    Underneath the blistering desert heat in 40 mile per hour winds, firefighters from the 407th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron and the city of An Nasiriyah gathered for one final training session ... "live fire." The Airmen here have been mentoring Iraqi firefighters for six weeks with the