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  • 'MAC' keeps munitions booming

    The 23d Equipment Maintenance Squadron’s conventional ammo section enhanced their knowledge for setting up and maintaining their Munitions Assembly Conveyers, Feb. 3, here.A MAC is an $85,000 conveyer belt Airmen use to build bombs. It’s basically an assembly line that helps these Airmen efficiently

  • History of the rank, top one percent

    It has been 57 years since the first Airmen earned the rank of chief master sergeant. Chiefs weren't a part of the enlisted structure when the Air Force was created in 1947. In fact, it took 11 years and an act of Congress before the rank even existed and Jan. 28, Moody added seven of their own to

  • Tinkering technicians save millions

    Time clocks for physical assessments, scoreboards in the gym, aircraft parts, refrigerators, tablets, and televisions—all of these items have something in common. They are some of the things that the 23d Maintenance Group’s Air Force Repair Enhancement Program technicians have fixed, here.The AFREP

  • Sifting through the myths of DDR

    Airmen are entrusted to protect the nation and themselves. Whether it’s drawing a blood sample or packing a parachute, Airmen must be situationally aware with a drug-free, stable mind.Would you want someone who’s high on illegal drugs, or an unauthorized controlled substance such as someone else’s

  • Healthy for the holidays

    Maintaining weight during the holidays seems an impossible feat. After all, ’tis the season for excess sugar, sticks of butter and festive spirits. The holiday season doesn’t have to be the end of healthy living, though. There are ways to navigate the holidays skillfully to avoid excess weight gain

  • Air Force reunites sisters

    What are the odds? After eight years of separation, sisters in blood turned sisters in service are being reunited in the same unit.“I was only 12 when we were separated,” said U.S. Air Force Airman Elizabeth Davis, 23d Communications Squadron knowledge management technician. “I felt like I lost part

  • Birds of two feathers flock together

    Many rivalries are held between firefighters and police officers nationwide, but when emergencies arise, both entities can be found running towards turmoil as a singular, lifesaving unit.That fact stands true at Moody, and it all begins with strategic planning in a modest room of Airmen from the 23d

  • Veteran says goodbye to partner, hello to pet

    Alexander Nutting, former Military Working Dog handler assigned to the 23d Security Force Squadron, adopted MWD Dini during his retirement ceremony.Dini is a Vizsla bred dog who was born in 2004 and joined the Air Force as an explosive detector dog in 2009. The two met in March 2013 when Nutting was

  • Airmen possess X-ray vision

    If it walks, sounds and looks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. Likewise, if symptoms, breathing and X-rays look like a lung infection, it’s probably a lung infection.The 23d Medical Support Squadron’s radiology diagnostic imaging specialists use sophisticated technology to capture images of the

  • Airfield management oversees the flightline

    Dodging litter and animals while questioning the GPS’s directions to drive into a lake are some struggles faced during road trips. Without the Airmen from one support section, Moody’s fleet would face many of the same struggles on the flightline.The safety of Airmen depends not only on aircraft, but