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  • MCA Airmen bring the heat with F-15E

    Airmen assigned to the 23d Wing and 4th Fighter Wing, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, participated in a Multi-Capable Airmen course Sept. 14-15, here.Pilots and maintainers assigned to the 4th FW traveled to Moody to train 23d WG Airmen to perform hot-pit refueling on an F-15E Strike

  • 15th AF leadership visits Moody

    Maj. Gen. Chad Franks, 15th Air Force commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Benjamin Hedden, 15th Air Force command chief, visited Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, Sept. 1-2, 2020.Franks visited Moody to fly an HH-60G Pave Hawk in order to remain proficient as a pilot during COVID-19, while Hedden visited

  • Ground transportation keeps Moody moving

    The 23d Logistics Readiness Squadron ground transportation flight services 56 vehicles equaling more than $3.8 million in assets. The flight serves as a focal point of support, from dispatching buses for base tours to transporting the bulk of airframe equipment to squadrons across the base.

  • POL fuel yard gets first major upgrade since 50s

    The 23d Logistics Readiness Squadron (LRS) is currently overseeing the construction of the Petroleum, Oils and Lubricants (POL) fuels bulk storage yard, which is slated for completion Jan. 2019, here.As the first major upgrade since its original construction in the 1950s, the 23d LRS is modernizing

  • LRS chief retires after 27 years

    Chief Master Sgt. Jim Calhoun, 23d Logistics Readiness Squadron superintendent, entered the Air Force in August of 1991 and served in numerous positions within fuels management and logistics readiness throughout his career.

  • POL enables faster turnarounds, longer missions

    “With hot-pit refuels we’re prepositioned and they taxi to us and with the engines still running,” said Tech. Sgt. Zachary Beggin, 23d LRS NCO in charge of fuels distribution. “They hookup, refuel and their back up in the air and it decreases ground time by 66 percent.”Less ground time means more

  • Hot-pit refueling enables high-ops training

    The 23d Logistics Readiness Squadron’s Petroleum, Oil, Lubricant section kept aircraft flying around the clock by conducting the more efficient hot-pit styled refuels, Dec. 4 -7, during the 23d Wing’s Phase 1, Phase 2 exercise, here.“Hot pits are almost like a gas station attendant,” said Master