Courtesy Story | Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton | 09.16.2019
Marines and airmen worked together at Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, California, to strengthen their ability to transport equipment and personnel over long distances using a U.S. Air Force C-5M Super Galaxy, Sept. 16....
Story by Roland Balik | 436th Airlift Wing | 09.12.2019
F-22 Raptor dedicated crew chief Staff Sgt. Zach Zistl, local 2012 Polytech High School graduate, returned to his hometown as a member of the F-22 demonstration team for the Thunder Over Dover 2019 open house Sept. 14-15, 2019....
Story by Roland Balik | 436th Airlift Wing | 02.20.2019
Aircraft Electrical and Environmental System maintainers from the 373rd Training Squadron, Detachment 3, here on base, are learning about a specific C-5 aircraft system on a maintenance trainer delivered by Lockheed back in 1972 – way before any of them were born....
Story by Joey Swafford | 60th Air Mobility Wing | 12.14.2018
During a cold, gloomy first week of December, total force Airmen teamed up at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, to test the capability of the Air Forces largest aircraft to perform aeromedical evacuation during a proof of concept event. The goal was to establish the C-5M Super Galaxy as part of the universal qualification training program for AE forces. If successfully certified, the C-5M......
Story by Roland Balik | 436th Airlift Wing | 08.09.2018
The U.S. Department of Agriculture selected Dover AFB as a test site for a Japanese beetle biological control project that consisted of using dead Japanese beetles as a host for a single-cell, fungal-like pathogen to reduce the reproductive capability of the beetle....
Story by Senior Airman Zachary Cacicia | 436th Airlift Wing | 06.13.2017
The C-5M Super Galaxy Formal Training Unit conducted its final training flight June 8, 2017, at Dover AFB prior to its move to the Lone Star State. The FTU has been in place at Dover AFB since 2012, and has now transitioned all of its courses to facilities at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Kelly Field Annex, Texas. This transition to Texas did not take place overnight; it was slow,......
Story by Roland Balik | 436th Airlift Wing | 06.07.2017
Nineteen honorary commanders and civic leaders from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, came to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, for a three-day Community Relations Tour, June 7-9, 2017....
Story by Staff Sgt. Charles Rivezzo | 60th Air Mobility Wing | 06.06.2017
“It turns out you have a form of lymphoma,” said a voice over the phone. “It’s Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and luckily it’s only stage 1. You will be receiving a call from an oncologist sometime today.”...
