Mountain Home Air Force Base Idaho - The 366th Fighter Wing participated in it's first ever Elephant Walk. The Elephant Walk, led by Col. Joe Kunkel, 366th Fighter Wing Commander, was
“Hide!”
Four crashed aircrew memebers scatter into knee-high desert brush searching for a spot to blend-in with the environment. There’s nothing but a dying, desolate landscape as far as the eye can see. And yet, they need to disappear. These aircrew are being hunted.
Rustling through the brush downwind of the pilots is a man and his dog.
“Find them!”
Wasting time is annoying. For a company, it costs money. For the Air Force, it could cost lives. So what if you had an idea to make things better and save time? Could you make your idea a reality?
The Air Force says yes.
That’s exactly the case of Senior Master Sgt. Mike Chandler, 142nd Maintenance Squadron avionics backshop flight chief out of the Portland Air National Guard. He spent years inventing, planning and implementing his...
Airmen deploy all the time, leaving their work centers behind. But what if the Airman stayed and their work centers deployed?
The Air Force has two deployable Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratories (PMEL) called a Rapid Assistance Support for Calibration (RASCAL) unit. And Mountain Home Air Force Base is trusted with one of them.
Dreams come true everyday. For Airmen, some want to travel the world, some want to become a general and others want to have a family. Dreams, however, do not happen on their own. It requires sacrifice, dedication and working smarter and harder than you have before. This truth stares each of us in the face everyday. If you choose to acknowledge it and apply it, your dreams can come true. Just ask Senior Airman Jalen Thompson.
