• Altus Airman earns career enlisted aviator award

    Air Force officials announced the selection of three Airmen for the 2009 Staff Sgt. Henry E. "Red" Erwin Outstanding Career Enlisted Aviator of the Year Award July 1.The recipients are:--Senior Master Sgt. Michael A. Morris, of the 54th Air Refueling Squadron at Altus Air Force Base, Okla.,--Tech.

  • MC-12W site survey team visits Altus

    Altus AFB hosted the MC-12W site survey team from headquarters Air Combat Command June 22-24. The purpose of the visit was to provide a thorough evaluation of the base infrastructure, in support of basing up to 37 MC-12W aircraft on the installation. The team worked with 22 personnel from Altus Air

  • Armed Forces Voter Registration Week

    The Federal Government has made it very easy for Armed Forces members and their dependents (of voting age) to vote absentee, thanks to the Federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. To celebrate this fact, the week of 28 June - 7 July is officially Armed Forces Absentee Voter

  • Fitness Management System off limits in July

    The 2010 Air Force Fitness changes will be implemented in the Air Force Fitness Management System July 1. Because of this, system user maintenance must be preformed July 1-9, and the Air Force Personnel Center is asking that only people designated as "Super Users" and "Fitness Information Managers"

  • Altus AFB Civil Engineers create conservation system

    The 97th Civil Engineer Squadron, the "Dirt Boys" of the Horizontal Construction shop, are dedicated to keeping the environment clean and healthy and have recently improved a conservation system that traps contaminated water on base for mitigation and disposal."(It's) worth every penny in so many

  • IMA program to hire 1,600 by Sept

    The Individual Mobilization Augmentee program is set to hire 1,600 Airmen by September in positions opening worldwide in all career fields. Recent attrition rates and the rise of new positions have created a great need to grow the program. Unlike any other Air Force service member, IMAs have

  • FCC hosts VHS tapes recycle drive

    ALTUS AIR FORCE BASE, Okla.--The Freedom Community Center is collecting Video Home System tapes during the month of June for recycling. After June 25, the tapes will be sent to the Digital Audio Disc Corporation in Terre Haute, Ind., a center specifically for all CD, DVD, date cartridges, digital

  • Altus smashes one million push-up and crunch challenge

    ALTUS AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. - June 1 marked the ending of a 1 million push-up/crunch challenge program ran by the fitness center, finishing at approximately 1,480,000 push-ups and crunches.This is the program's third year running and at the end of each year's challenge, the fitness center

  • MSgt Howard Sik, Altus AFB Award Winner!

    Master Sgt. Howard Sik, of the 97th Logistics Readiness Squadron, is the Air Education and Training Command Readiness Noncommissioned Officer of the Year 2009.Nominees are evaluated on overall ability and knowledge, other contributions to unit mission, and professional military qualities."I have to

  • Altus Airmen fly dolphins

    Airmen from the 58th Airlift Squadron teamed up with U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Fleet Systems to take four bottlenose dolphins home June 11-15.Air Force Captains Judd Baker, Kristopher Herman, Carl Rotermund, Tech. Sgt. Douglas Campbell, and Staff Sgt. Daniel Carbon, along with attendants for the