Altus Air Force Base News

 

  • Airmen to visit veterans for Valentine’s Day

    Approximately 70 Airmen and civilians will spend time with veterans at retirement homes in neighboring towns and cities on Feb. 14 as part of the Valentines for Vets program here. Airmen and civilians will visit the Oklahoma Veterans Center in Clinton, Okla.; English Village Nursing Home, Plantation

  • Support for America’s Troops Surges in 2007

    The American public rallied in support of America's troops in 2007, delivering more than $1.7 million in aid through Army & Air Force Exchange Service troop support initiatives. Calls home were a priority, as everyday Americans sent $1,257,956 in communication support through AAFES' "Help Our Troops

  • AFOSI Seeks New Special Agents

    Military members looking to cross train into a challenging and rewarding career field may apply to be an Air Force Office of Special Investigations special agent. Senior airmen with less than six years time in service, staff sergeants through master sergeants with outstanding records and fewer than

  • 97 LRS wins 2007 AETC award

    The 97th Logistics Readiness Squadron here was recently awarded the 2007 Air Education and Training Command Daedalian Maj. Gen. Warren R. Carter Effectiveness award. The 97 LRS received the award due to their excellence in providing outstanding logistics support for their command. "Our Airmen have

  • Two Altus elementary schools win Oklahoma Academic Achievement awards

    Teachers at L. Mendel Rivers Elementary School here and Sunset Elementary School, in Altus, will be receiving bonus checks from the State of Oklahoma, as a result of a program that rewards teachers who work in schools with the highest Academic Performance Index scores or that make the most sizable

  • Dinner: possible -- TV chef cooks up a winner for Sheppard Airmen

    It took him 10 grueling hours of work, a frantic trip to a Wichita Falls retailer for ingredients, and the help of dozens of Airmen, but Chef Robert Irvine pulled off a seemingly impossible feat: feeding 1,000 people at the Air Force's 60th Anniversary banquet at Sheppard Air Force Base. In an

  • 58 AS Airman named AETC nominee for pilot award

    Maj. Scott M. Anderson, 58th Airlift Squadron, here, was recently named the 2007 Daedalian Exceptional Pilot nominee for the Air Education and Training Command. The award, established in 1998 by the order of the Daedalians, was created to inspire duty performance excellence by career military pilots

  • Dry weather increases risks of wild fires

    Grass and wild land fires only happen during the dry summer month's right? Wrong. The unseasonable days Altus had lately has lead to a few grass fires in the state and a couple in Altus' own back yard. The week of Jan. 11 saw a fire start in an alley in Altus. In just a short period of time this