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  • BEST GROUND SAFETY PROGRAM

    Air Education and Training Command Safety earned the Colonel Will L. Tubbs Memorial Award for ground safety for fiscal 2012. The award recognizes the most effective major command, direct reporting unit or forward operating agency ground safety program. "We're very excited about this award because it

  • 'CAGED' DRIVERS WATCH OUT

    Col. Dana Morel knows the dangers of motorcycles as well as anyone. A biker herself, Morel was a lieutenant at Mather Air Force Base, Calif., in 1986 when a young Airman she knew with the base honor guard took off speeding one night. Distraught over the end of a romance, he missed a turn and crashed

  • WHEN TRAIN SLAMS INTO PARADE, MASTER SERGEANT ANSWERS CALL

    When a freight train slammed into a parade float in Midland, Texas, Nov. 15, killing four people and injuring 17 others, a heroic Airman here used his Self-Aid and Buddy Care training to help ensure the death toll didn't rise even further. Master Sgt. Christopher Doggett, a military training leader

  • SEVEN COLD, HARD FACTS FOR WINTER SPORTS, RECREATION

    According to officials at the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, being able to recognize these seven dangers is key to avoid cold-weather exposure injuries. 1. FROSTBITE is the freezing of skin tissue that can extend through all layers of the skin and freeze muscle and bone. Frozen skin may

  • INJURED DOCTOR SAVES COP HIT BY HELICOPTOR ROTOR BLADE

    An Air Force doctor who had broken his leg while hiking had to rescue his rescuer after a police officer who responded to his mishap was struck in the head by a helicopter rotor blade. Maj. (Dr.) Jeremy Kilburn, a 34-year-old critical care pulmonologist assigned to the 99th Medical Operations

  • MOTORCYCLE MISHAPS TOP SUMMER DEATH TOLL

    When the Critical Days of Summer wrapped up Sept. 3, the Air Force had suffered 16 fatalities, more than half from motorcycle mishaps. The Critical Days of Summer is a high-risk time period from Memorial Day weekend in May to Labor Day weekend in September that historically sees mishaps rise. Of the

  • VIRTUAL WINGMAN MAKES SMART CHOICES EASY

    Air Education and Training Command unveiled a new website accessible by smart phones and tablets that is designed to provide resiliency and safety information to Airmen. The website was shown at the Air Force Community Action Information Board meeting March 29.Among the highlights of the website are