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  • Recruits recieve pilot-guided tour

    Lieutenant Col. Lanson Ross, 756th Air Refueling Squadron pilot (center), conducts a tour of a KC-135R Stratotanker for a group of development and training flight members on the Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, flightline Feb. 12, 2017. DTF is a training and education program aimed at helping Air Force

  • Airman scratches creative itch with writing club

    Since October 2016, Tech. Sgt. Joseph Murray, 11th Force Support Squadron manpower analyst, has hosted creative writing club meetings twice a month at the Joint Base Andrews library.During each meeting, members come together to express themselves, in writing, in a group setting, as a means to

  • Colonel Kelley assumes command of the 459th AMDS

    Colonel David Owens, commander, 459th Air Refueling Wing, passes the guidon to Col. Colleen Kelley, commander, 459th Aerospace Medicine Squadron, during an assumption of command ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, February 12, 2017. Kelley joins the 459th ARW from Westover Air Reserve Base,

  • Giving blood to brothers in arms

    The Armed Services Blood Bank Center came to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, and received donations from volunteers on base. The donated blood is shipped to military treatment facilities across the globe and used overseas at forward deployed locations.

  • Story behind the story

    It’s 7 a.m. and you’re waiting in the rain. You’ve checked each media credential against the secret service listing, caravanned them to the passenger terminal, and have them on the flightline on time, ready to go. Waiting for the president’s motorcade. It’s secret service, security forces,

  • JBA sends off former President Obama

    Joint Base Andrews members bid farewell to former President Barack Obama and thanked him for his leadership here during a ceremony, Jan. 20. This event was also marked by Obama’s final departure on presidential aircraft, this time known as Special Air Mission 44 instead of Air Force One, a

  • Maintainers: bringing fuel to the fight

    Every few seconds, wind gusts whip past him as he clasps an orange signal wand in each hand, placing them behind his back. Senior Airman Jaramie York, 459th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron maintainer, stands motionless on the flightline at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, as temperatures approach

  • JBA supports 58th Presidential Inauguration

    Members of the U.S. Air Force Band and Honor Guard as well as active-duty, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve members participated in the 58th Presidential Inauguration in the District of Columbia, Jan. 20.

  • JBA hosts media day

    A media day, highlighting base units who with be participating in the 58th Presidential Inauguration, was hosted here, Jan. 13, 2017.The event allowed local and national media to interview Air Force leaders and Airmen who will be participating in the 58th Presidential Inauguration.The media included

  • JBA leadership hears Airmen’s feedback

    Various infrastructure renovations, facility repairs and equipment upgrades have taken place here in the past couple of years as a means to improve quality of life on base.