Col. Shanon Anderson, 436th Airlift Wing vice commander, signs the Sexual Assault Awareness Month proclamation at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, April 1, 2022. Anderson, along with other Dover AFB senior leaders, signed the proclamation to support SAAM in April. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. J.D. Strong II)

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  • Team Dover's presence strong at annual biking event

    Several base members participated in Dover's 24th Annual Amish Bike Tour Sept. 11. Wearing Air Force and patriotic attire, 512th Airlift Wing members Lt. Col. Gretchen Kurlander and Tech. Sgt. David Jackson joined 1,300 other cyclists riding through the back roads of Delaware's Amish farmlands. Some

  • Air Force increases deployment times

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz announced a change to the air and space expeditionary force rotational baseline from 120 to 179 days for the active component. The revised construct will increase predictability and stability for affected Airmen and their families while providing better

  • Initiative searches for IDEAs to increase Dover fuel efficiency

    The Air Mobility Command Aviation Fuel Efficiency Innovative Development through Employee Awareness Initiative at Dover Air Force Base, Del., is looking to capitalize on the submissions of the Airmen at Dover Air Force Base to identify aviation fuel efficiency (FE) related infinitives.Team Dover is

  • Teamwork keeps Sather PAX terminal moving through RDoF

    Editor's note: This is part four of a five part series highlighting the Air Force's involvement during the Responsible Drawdown of Forces in Iraq.As U.S. Forces prepare to transition from combat operations to an advise and assist role, members of the 447th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron

  • C-5M Super Galaxy delivers 7-ton particle detector

     A team of internationally renowned physicists led by Nobel laureate Dr. Sam Ting, specially requested the Air Force's largest, newly remodeled airlifter to transport the 7.5-ton Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer from the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland to Kennedy Space Center,

  • Wing names lieutenant colonel promotees

    The following 512th Airlift Wing members were selected for promotion to lieutenant colonel:Stephen C. Ausband, 512th Aerospace Medicine SquadronAlvis D. Burris, 512th AMDSCarl W. Gouaux, 512th Airlift WingThomas K. Kerr, 512th Aircraft Maintenance SquadronRichard S. Klarich, 326th Airlift

  • Honorary commanders fly Dover skies

    Sitting on the flight deck of a C-17 Globemaster III, observing Dover Air Force Base pilots connect to the boom of a KC-135 Stratotanker to download fuel at an altitude much higher than your typical gas station is what one local civic leader described as a great day at the office.Deborah Caulk was

  • Deadline nears, reservists need to register for DBIDS

     Liberty Wing personnel may have already had their common access cards scanned while entering the gates to Dover Air Force Base. This is a Random Antiterrorism Measure now, but is expected to become the standard this winter. The program, Defense Biometric Identification System, is a force-protection

  • Deadline Aug. 20 for Employer Appreciation Day nominations

    This year's 512th Airlift Wing Employer Appreciation Day is set for Oct. 2. Wing leadership encourages reservists to invite their civilian employers to this annual event to showcase what their Air Force Reserve employees do on unit training assembly weekends. The civilian employers will have the