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Not everyone can go home for the holidays, but that doesn't mean anyone has to miss out on holiday festivities. Operation Turkey Drop, Operation Cookie Drop and Operation Ham Grenade are among several seasonal initiatives Joint Base Lewis-McChord conducts to spread Yuletide spirit. The season recently kicked off with Operation Turkey
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Congratulations to the following airmen on their selection as staff sergeants! "Our NCO corps is the backbone of our Air Force and has proven the difference between victory and defeat time and again," said Scovill Currin, 62nd Airlift Wing commander. "Machines and technology do not win wars; imaginative and bold leaders
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The 62nd Airlift Wing and the 555th Engineer Brigade (EN BDE) worked together to move equipment, vehicles and personnel by C-17 Globemaster III to Moses Lake May 21. The 555th EN BDE was holding a deployment readiness exercise that tested their ability to deploy on short notice. "Readiness is the keystone to
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Col. Scovill Currin assumed command of the 62nd Airlift Wing from the outgoing commander, Col. Rebecca Sonkiss, during a ceremony May 24 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM). "I can vouch for the character, temperament and kind of person that you're getting," said Lt. Gen. Giovanni Tuck, 18th Air Force commander, who
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Team McChord airmen came together to participate in a Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month event hosted by the McChord Field Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) team, April 27, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Strike Out Sexual Assault was a bowling event held at McChord Field's Sounders Lane to raise awareness
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Members of the 62nd Airlift Wing command staff traveled to Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, to tour Basic Military Training Jan. 11-12. The visit gave Col. Rebecca Sonkiss, 62nd AW commander, Chief Master Sgt. Jeffery Sandusky, 62nd AW command chief, and commanders from maintenance, aircraft maintenance, operations group, operations support, medical,
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The commander of Air Mobility Command visited McChord Field, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Jan. 25, and witnessed full-spectrum readiness in action. According to Gen. Carlton Everhart, II, full-spectrum readiness describes the way the Air Force maintains the skills and knowledge required to deploy quickly and operate effectively in a full range of
