Altus Air Force Base News

 

  • Installation Excellence Selection Board visits Altus AFB

    A team of inspectors from the Installation Excellence Selection Board visited Altus Air Force Base Jan. 8 - 11 to determine the winner of the Commander-in-Chief's Installation Excellence Award.Col. Richard D. McComb, Associate Director of Security Forces, Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics,

  • Altus AFB gains four new Victim Advocates

    The 97th Air Mobility Wing Sexual Assault Prevention and Response office recently recruited four new volunteers to help combat sexual assaults within the Air Force. These volunteer Victim Advocates are U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Danielle Pier, U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Kanesha Boone, Don Taber

  • Altus Airmen support humanitarian assistance mission to Haiti

    Altus Airmen delivered 136,000 pounds of humanitarian aid to Port-au-Prince, Haiti Dec. 19, 2013.Members assigned to the 58th Airlift Squadron, 97th Security Forces Squadron, 97th Logistics Readiness Squadron and 97th Maintenance Directorate all played an important role in the humanitarian aid

  • Safety office earns AETC award

    The 97th Air Mobility Wing Safety Office received the Air Education and Training Command Ground Safety Excellence Award for fiscal year 2013 for ensuring the safety of the base. The award is based on the actions implemented into making a better safety program for the base."Our biggest role is mishap

  • Altus named Air Force finalist for Installation Excellence Award

    Air Force leaders selected Altus Air Force Base as one of two installations to compete in the 2014 Commander-In-Chief's Installation Excellence Award.Air Education and Training Command commander Gen. Robin Rand announced the 97th Air Mobility Wing as the AETC nominee for the award in November, and

  • AF officials announce FY14 civilian workforce shaping

    The Air Force will reduce the size of its civilian workforce by about 900 positions in addition to maintaining approximately 7,000 vacancies across the force to meet the demands of a constrained fiscal 2014 budget, officials announced. Specific reductions by location have not been determined.The Air

  • AF announces additional force management programs to reduce force size

    Air Force leaders announced force management programs Dec. 11 designed to reduce the force by thousands of Airmen over the next five years as a result of sequestration.Fiscal 2014 force management initiatives are in addition to the announcement made in July, stating the Air Force will implement

  • Altus AFB conducts active-shooter exercise

    Exercise evaluators observed as gunfire sounded throughout the deployment center during an active-shooter exercise Dec. 11, 2013.The exercise tested first responders' ability to obtain custody of an assailant, care for the injured and move them to a safe and secure location."Emergency responders