Story by Airman 1st Class Kourtney Ross | 43rd Air Mobility Operations Group | 06.17.2024
Within the Air Force, leadership expects excellence in all that its members do. This culture inspires individuals to strive to be the best, and one such member was recognized as the best by receiving the 2023 North Carolina Department of Agriculture Employee of the Year Award....
Story by Chief Petty Officer Luke Clayton | U.S. Coast Guard Oceania District | 09.28.2022
HONOLULU — Coast Guard inspectors with several federal and state agencies joined forces to conduct a Multi-Agency Strike Force Operation (MASFO) in August to increase port security....
Story by 1st Lt. William Hermanson | Camp Ripley Training Center | 03.01.2022
In 2004, an Army Compatible Use Buffer (ACUB) program was established at Camp Ripley. The “Central Minnesota Prairie to Pines Partnership,” the ACUB program at Ripley, maximizes compatible land use by permanently protecting private properties in Cass, Crow Wing, and Morrison Counties that sustain the military mission. Land use protections play a critical role in the State of Minnesota’s......
Story by Stefanie Gutierrez | U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii | 08.09.2017
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS — One of O‘ahu’s rare endangered birds makes its home, here, in the mountains above the Schofield training range. The O‘ahu ‘elepaio, a native flycatcher, is found nowhere else in the world....
Story by Staff Sgt. Ned T. Johnston | 6th Air Refueling Wing | 03.02.2016
Leaning over a guard rail atop a 137-foot air traffic control tower, a wildlife biologist stares fear and the ground straight in the eye as he meticulously loops and knots a fishing wire, tethering an 8-pound vulture effigy to the side of the tower....
Story by Staff Sgt. David Dobrydney | 455th Air Expeditionary Wing | 05.23.2013
There is an invasion taking place here every day, yet service members are almost completely oblivious to it.
Courtesy Story | Combined Joint Task Force 1 - Afghanistan | 05.21.2011
Members of the Indiana National Guard’s 3-19th Agribusiness Development Team inspected Agriculture training facilities at Ghargash High School in Khowst province, Afghanistan deeming them “Ready for Instruction” May 21....
Story by Spc. James Wilton | Combined Joint Task Force 101 | 05.09.2011
The Kentucky Agribusiness Development Team III, attached to the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team and the Roots of Peace, a non-profit organization, donated hundreds of fruit trees to local farmers at the Khenj District Center, Afghanistan, May 9....
