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(446th AW PA) - Air Force Reserve Command recently recognized two 446th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Reservists for their outstanding hands-on maintenance work. Staff Sgt. Francis Aguon and Mr. Michael Harris are 2011 recipients of the Lieutenant General Leo Marquez Award in the Aircraft Maintenance category. An awards board of air and
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I went to The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. As Washingtonians know, it's a small liberal arts school in the middle of the woods, full of hippies. Simpsons creator Matt Groening, Kramer from Seinfeld (the racist one), Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker of groundbreaking riot grrl band Sleater-Kinney and
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After dedicating almost 33 years to the Air Force Reserve, Chief Master Sgt. Gloria Bennett, 446th Airlift Wing command chief, will retire March 31 and pass on her duties to Senior Master Sgt. Anthony Mack. Mack, currently the 86th Aerial Port Squadron first sergeant, will begin his new duties April 1. "Gloria
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Indiana-native turned Olympian Double B is everywhere. I think it's because he doesn't shy away from the many music opportunities that come his way. One night you might catch him in Seattle competing in an emcee battle put on by the Zulu Nation; the next night Double B might be
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Tuskegee Airman Capt. George Hickman loved aviation and airplanes so much growing up he often brought his small-scale airplane models with him to school. "The teachers took them away ... that broke my heart," he said with a laugh. That love of aviation at an early age helped fuel Hickman to a
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Airman 1st Class Leah Young admits that her generation is filled with people with a heightened sense of entitlement. "It's a very ‘give-it-to-me' mentality," said the 21-year-old Pittsburgh, Pa., native. It's also a mentality she refuses to identify with. "I embrace responsibility," she said. That attitude and determination was acknowledged recently as Young, a
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BROTHERHOOD OF THE BLACK SQUIRREL >>> Friday, Feb. 24 Brotherhood of the Black Squirrel's second record, The Dust Bowl Ghosts, released last April, is described as "a trip through the dreams and nightmares of a down-on-his-luck circus comedian with a bum leg and child support payments." If that doesn't sound like a
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Ads for Theater Artists Olympia's A Bucket of Blood pose the question, "Who is Walter Paisley?" It's unlikely you've ever seen Roger Corman's 1959 B-movie original, so I'll fill you in. Walter Paisley is a miserable busboy in a late-‘50s Beat club called the Yellow Door. He's
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It's a big weekend for the finer shades of music in Tacoma, and part of that has to do with Sunday's performance by the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, which, under the direction of longtime (and soon to step down) Music Director Harvey Felder, will take on a selection of orchestral works
