Altus Air Force Base News

 

  • Altus AFB Operations Support Squadron shares heritage

    Members of the 97th Operations Support Squadron hosted a heritage briefing at the Freedom Community Center Dec. 10.The heritage brief gave Airmen the opportunity to experience the history of the OSS."If you don't know where you came from, you don't know where you have the opportunity to go," said

  • Military Training Leaders: leading by example

    - As loadmaster and boom operator students enter their technical training at Altus Air Force Base, they rely on a small group of military training leaders to help with personal and professional matters and enforcing military standards.Military training leaders have the important job of being the

  • Vance signs agreement with Altus AFB to host ALS

    It took two commanders from two bases coming together Nov. 21 to sign a Memorandum of Understanding that will allow Team Vance to host two Airman Leadership School classes in 2015.For many years, senior airmen selected for promotion to staff sergeant have been attending ALS, the professional

  • Family of deployed Airman lights Christmas tree

    Altus Air Force Base held a tree lighting ceremony at the Wings of Freedom Park, Dec. 1, 2014.For more than 30 years, Altus Air Force Base has started the holiday season with a tree lighting ceremony, usually with base leaders lighting the tree. For the past two years, family members of deployed

  • Altus Airman earns Bronze Star with Valor in Afghanistan

    An Airman assigned to the 97th Air Mobility Wing was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor during a ceremony in Afghanistan, Nov. 16, 2014.U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Matthew Treadwell, a combat arms advisor for NATO Air Training Command - Afghanistan, was recognized for successfully defending his

  • Tool to safeguard PII scheduled for December rollout AF wide

    The Digital Signature Enforcement Tool is scheduled for Air Force-wide integration Dec. 5, providing Microsoft Outlook email users with an interactive, automated virtual assistant to help ensure the security of personally identifiable information"I can't overstate the operational importance of

  • Food safety: Food-borne illness prevention

     More food-borne diseases are picked up at home than anywhere else, and during the holiday months potlucks and holiday buffets can run a close second. Food-borne diseases from pathogens such as Salmonella and E. coli have been on the rise in the past 15 years. These bacteria are found in many foods,

  • Great American Smokeout 2014

    Since the 1970s, the third Thursday of November has been known as the Great American Smokeout.  The American Cancer Society sponsored the first official Smokeout on Nov. 18, 1976, in California when one million smokers committed to quit for the day.  It was such a success that the Society decided to

  • Altus AFB hosts 19th AF commander

     U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael Keltz, 19th Air Force commander, visited Altus AFB Nov. 13, 2014, as the first of several bases that will be part of a familiarization tour to learn more about the wings assigned to him and to share the 19th AF mission statement of creating fifth-generation

  • Base, city fire department training pays off in house fire

    Firefighters from Altus Air Force Base, Altus Fire Department and Friendship Volunteer Fire Department worked together to contain an off-base house fire rented by an Altus AFB member, Nov. 11, 2014.One resident was home when the fire began, but managed to evacuate unharmed and called 911. The cause