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  • Vice commander performs final flight

    Team Moody celebrated Col. Mark Barrera’s, 23d Wing vice commander, completion of his final flight, or "fini flight," from Moody Air Force Base, Ga., May 15, 2017.Upon completion of their final flights, military aviators are hosed down with water by their comrades, family, and friends before they

  • Leadership Moody; developing leaders through community partnership

    The military has been viewed as an organization that produces great leaders like Colin Powell and James Mattis. But what makes the military an organization that produces these kinds of people? Is it something developed during their tenure of military service?In 2016 Moody Air Force Base launched a

  • SERE meets SPEAR: Specialists convene for unique combative course

    Your transport aircraft has just crashed in a remote and hostile environment. You and only a handful of other troops have survived the crash. As you survey the surroundings, you notice a crowd of local inhabitants running toward the wreckage screaming wildly, with brows furrowed and fists clenched.

  • 86th FWS hosts Combat Hammer

    The 86th Fighter Weapons Squadron, Detachment 1, hosted Airmen and aircraft participating in the air-to-ground weapons evaluation program, May 1-11.

  • Shark 1: Piloting a fighter squadron

    Flying an aircraft takes a skilled pilot. Flying an aircraft into combat takes real guts. But if you want to know what it takes to lead a squadron of gutsy A-10C Thunderbolt II pilots ---ask the 75th Fighter Squadron commander.

  • Full-time mom, full-time Airman

    There I was staring down at those eight letters that later changed my life forever. Pregnant. I was overcome by a flood of emotions, excited but terrified at the same time. Is this a dream? How will this affect my future? Am I ready?I had only felt like this once before in my life, when I enlisted

  • Airman beats leukemia into remission

    “Just because someone has cancer, doesn’t mean they’re useless.”In January 2012, Staff Sgt. Nicholas Worley, 23d Civil Engineer Squadron electrical systems craftsman, was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, an uncommon form of blood-cell cancer that starts in the blood-forming bone marrow

  • Medical technicians care for greatest assets

    Medical technicians are normally the first to see a patient, leaving it to them to assess if someone is simply sick or should be in an emergency room.After recognizing a patient with life-threatening symptoms, one of Team Moody’s medical technicians was recently honored for quickly responding to a

  • A-10s honor original Flying Tiger

    The 167th Airlift Wing hosted four U.S. Air Force A-10C aircraft and crew members who came to honor to the late Peter Atkinson, a Martinsburg, W.Va. native and pilot for the famed American Volunteer Group, also known as the Flying Tigers, April 5-10.

  • Career nurse leads future generations

    It’s another busy night in the controlled chaos that one 2nd Lieutenant knows as the hospital ward. Evaluating 15 patients, all with different ailments, but each had one thing in common - a need for a nurse to provide them with life-saving care.Fast forward 22-years and those humble beginnings seem