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  • Offutt Appreciation Picnic Day scheduled for June 3

    The 2016 Offutt Appreciation Day Picnic is scheduled to take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Base Lake June 3.The picnic, an annual event for the last 21 years, will provide free food and drink, performances from the Heartland of America Band, door prizes and pony rides.All members of Team

  • Bosses use ESGR to understand their Guard, Reserve employees' mission

    Nebraska Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Chair, Paul Cohen, a retired Air Force Brig. Gen., welcomed some 16 civilian employers to 'Bosses Day' at Offutt Air Force Base. This employer orientation tour and others like it go far to help civilian employers better understand and appreciate the

  • Offutt honors Police Week

    The 55th Security Forces Squadron here held several events to recognize Police Week May 15-21.The week, officially designated by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, honors the police officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty.“In the same way members of the armed forces risk their lives

  • Field house track opens earlier than scheduled

    The Offutt Field House opened the expanded running track that encircles the much of the 220 thousand square foot fitness facility at a ribbon-cutting ceremony held May 16. U.S. Air Force Col. Marty Reynold, commander of the 55th Wing, along with integral members of the 55th Civil Engineering

  • Base picnic scheduled for June 3

    The time has finally come to shed jackets, grab camp chairs and head to the lake for food, fun, music and prizes. That’s right, Friday, June 3 the Offutt Advisory Council’s annual Offutt Appreciation Day Picnic takes place at the Base Lake. The community surrounding the base annually provides a free

  • CCRI – Make the mission happen

    For some, the Super Bowl is the culmination of a year’s worth of avid attention. They don’t wash their team jerseys in order to avoid jinxing the quarterback, they don’t schedule anything on game day. Talk around the watercooler revolves around which team has the best chance of making it. Months of

  • The Runway Run offers a 7-mile stretch

    Participants get in place for the eighth annual Bellevue-Offutt Runway Run at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., May 8, 2016. More than 100 runners participated in this unique seven-mile race that takes runners down Fort Crook Road in Bellevue, Neb. and down an active U.S. Air Force runway on Offutt AFB.

  • Nurses, Medical Technicians Week 2016

    To celebrate Nurses and Medical Technicians Week 2016, spend a little time checking the pulse of those who have pledged to check yours.  The nurses and medical technicians of the Fighting Fifty-Fifth, Ehrling Bergquist Clinic encourage you to learn a bit more about the advancement of their craft

  • CCRI: preparedness is key

    The 55th Wing is gearing up for a Cyber Command Readiness Inspection May 23-27.The inspection, conducted by the Defense Information Systems Agency, will focus on network security, infrastructure, wireless technologies and network defense. Inspectors will also be looking for information on the 55th

  • Dining like a Diplomat

    More than twenty Team Offutt members attended the “Dining like a Diplomat” event at the Patriot Club April 20.  “Dining like a Diplomat” is an etiquette training course that teaches proper protocol and skills for social and business situations. The course covered a wide array of topics such as table

  • Air National Guard E&I Team - saving U.S. Strategic Command millions

    Select personnel from 15 Air National Guard Engineering and Installation organizations are either in place or will soon arrive at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska.  Before the next three years have passed, they will have installed more than 600 miles of cabling in support of the U.S. Strategic

  • 557th meteorologist earns Weather Civilian of the Year

    Air Force officials recently announced a member of the 557th Weather Wing as the Weather Civilian of the Year.Samantha Strong-Henninger, 16th Weather Squadron meteorologist, has been working for the 557th WW for three years."I began my career as an intern with the 557th WW, what was then the Air

  • Fallen weather Airman honored

    Members of the 557th Weather Wing gathered for a remembrance ceremony in honor of Capt. Nathan Nylander, a fallen weather Airman, April 27.Nylander was a weather officer with the 25th Operational Weather Squadron at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., who was killed in Afghanistan along with eight

  • Public service week honors civilian contributions to AF

    Public Service Recognition Week, which runs from May 1-7, provides an opportunity to recognize more than 2 million public employees who protect the nation through service in the armed forces. More than 176,000 of them are Air Force civilian full-time, part-time, term, temporary and non-appropriated

  • Goldfein nominated as 21st CSAF

    Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced April 26 that the president has nominated Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein to be the 21st chief of staff of the Air Force, succeeding Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, who has served in the position since 2012.

  • Offutt Diversity Team hosts sexual assault awareness event

    The Offutt Diversity Team is hosting a sexual assault awareness event at 1 p.m. April 27 in the 557th Weather Wing auditorium here.The event, titled “Got Consent?” will feature a skit performed by Sexual Assault Response Coordinator victim advocates, followed by a mock trial.U.S. Air Force Senior

  • AF children’s health: Caring for AF’s littlest heroes

    (This is the fourth AFMS article for the Military Children’s Health Month series) As we salute military children, we take a look at how the Air Force cares for its littlest heroes. In today’s military community, the number of active-duty-member children is almost equal to the number of active duty

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