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  • 'No Heat, No Cool' fall 2017

    The 11th Civil Engineer Squadron will initiate an installation-wide "No Heat/No Cool" period from Oct. 15 to Nov. 15, 2017 to assist in switching heating, ventilation and air conditioning units from cooling to heating modes.

  • JBA showcases air power for POTUS

    President Donald Trump visited Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, to thank service members on behalf of the American people for their dedication to the nation, Sept. 15.

  • AROWS change improves visibility of operational requirements

    Beginning Oct. 1, a new data field will be added to the Air Reserve Orders Writing System that will be used primarily to track military personnel appropriation and other orders for operational requirements.This new field will be called Air Reserve Component Operational Requirements Tracker or

  • Earth Wind and Fire: Reservists own the skies

    For the first time in the nearly 70-year history of the Air Force Reserve, all three special mission units have been called to action simultaneously due to a series of catastrophic events that have affected wide swaths of the U.S.Reserve Citizen Airmen from across the country are conducting weather

  • Air Guard and Reserve join forces to outrun Hurricane Irma

    Although not faced directly with Hurricane Irma’s dangerous effects, Airmen with the 459th Air Refueling Wing here had a positive impact on their National Guard counterparts who were in the storm’s path.   Prior to the monthly unit training assembly weekend, aircraft maintainers from the 459th ARW

  • Local employers take to the skies

    Civilian employers of Reservists and Guardsmen based at Andrews flew in a KC-135R Stratotanker refueling aircraft here Sept. 9 during an Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve-sponsored flight. The flight was an ESGR effort to thank supportive employers of 459th Air Refueling Wing Reservists

  • NCR home to USSSA Military World Series champions

    Approximately 20 women from various U.S. Military branches and dependents from the National Capital Region, who make up the Lady Not Forgotten softball team, brought back the title from the annual U.S. Special Sports Association Military World Series in Augusta, Ga., Aug. 14.   The team played in