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  • Senior Master Sgt. Bob Hoeppner, 376th Expeditionary Operations Group superintendent, tightens a bolt on the new swing set before it’s cemented into the ground. Members of both the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing and EOG visited the Solnyshko Kindergarten School Nov. 16 to complete the swing set for the children. Sergeant Hoeppner is deployed from 56th Airlift Squadron at Altus Air Force Base, Okla. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Capt. Christy Stravolo)

    Deployed Altus senior NCO serves community

    A team of Airmen here finished work on a new swing set for children at the Solnyshko Kindergarten School near the village of Vinogradnoe Nov. 16. The swing set, which was built by the previous rotation, still had to be cemented into the ground and painted before turning it over to the youngsters. "We chose red and blue paint for the swing set
  • Tail number 00459, the first C-5 of eight scheduled to depart Altus over the next seven months, displays the 167th Airlift Wing tail flash. The C-5 will depart Saturday for Martinsburg, W. Va. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Master Sgt. Richard Guinan)

    First of eight C-5s to depart Altus for ANG

    The Altus Air Force Base A-Team gave a final detailing to aircraft C-5A 00459 prior to its departure from the training program at Altus AFB. Decals were exchanged for those of the West Virginia Air National Guard and the Altus tail flash was replaced by one for the 167th Airlift Wing, Shepherd Field, Martinsburg, W. Va. The C-5A is the first
  • Col. Michael Mendonca, 97th Air Mobility Wing vice commander, surveys the mountains of peanuts inside the warehouse at the Altus Peanut Company during the Farm City Week tour Nov. 8. The Altus Chamber of Commerce hosts the annual tours to introduce members of the base to the agri-business sector of the local community. The Altus peanut company dries approximately 2,000 tons of peanuts every year for farmers throughout the area. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Rebecca Dickens)

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  • Senior Airman Calvin Murphy, an engineering assistant with the 97th Civil Engineer Squadron, greeted his 7-month-old daughter, Anisa, for the first time Nov. 9. Airman Murphy was one of 27 CES troops to return from a deployment that day. The troops trickled in from morning to late evening following deployments to Balad Air Base, Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Mercedes Crossland)

    Daddy's home...

  • CES takes two AETC awards

    The 97th Civil Engineer Squadron was recently awarded two 2006 Air Education and Training Command awards: Outstanding Civil Engineer Unit, Small Unit category; and the Colonel Frederick J. Riemer Award for the Readiness Flight. The civil engineers will now compete at the Air Force level for both awards. Outstanding Unit Award: The Air Force

  • Free base shuttle service to continue

    Local business owners have worked out a series of pick-up and drop-off locations for anyone wanting to ride the "Altus Express" free shuttle Friday and Saturday nights from Altus Air Force Base to several local dinning establishments, taverns and hotels. The Southwest Transit shuttle will begin the hourly loop at Altus Air Force Base at 6 p.m. and
  • Master Sgt. Lisa Hill, NCO in charge of the 97th Logistics Readiness Squadron's Aerial Operations Flight, places a flag on the grave of a veteran at the Altus Cemetery Nov. 9. Along with members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4876, more than 60 LRS troops showed up to honor 1600 veterans buried there. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Brian Engle)

    For those who served...

  • AETC rates Altus Food Services best of best

    Altus Air Force Base's food service division of the 97th Services Squadron is the recipient of the John L. Hennessy Award for being the single category winner in the Air Education and Training Command for 2007. Last year Altus was runner-up to Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. Food Service is competing against single category food service operations
  • Altus Air Force Base C-17s participated in a 51-ship Mobility Air Forces Exercise Nov. 7. The exercise represented a strategic brigade airdrop insertion scenario that, when fully executed, would put a brigade-size force of Army troops into enemy territory just days after being directed by senior military leaders.

    Altus deploys in 51-ship exercise

    Altus C-17s conducted a low altitude approach over the Sooner Drop Zone west of Altus, Okla., Tuesday. Six C-17As and six KC-135R aircraft from Altus Air Force Base launched within an hour window to participate in a Mobility Air Forces Exercise, part of a 51-airship tasking developed by U.S. Air Force Weapons School students at McGuire AFB, N.J.,

  • Support Group commander looks to future

    After serving little more than two months as the 97th Mission Support Group commander, Col. Keith Moncrief already has a huge appreciation for "...the level and depth of talent" in the 97th MSG and at Altus Air Force Base. After arriving from Yokota Air Base, Japan, where he was commander of the 730th Air Mobility Squadron, Colonel Moncrief
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