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  • Chief Master Sgt. James Roy visits Arnold AFB

    Chief Master Sgt. James Roy and his wife Paula visited Arnold Engineering Development Center June 15. Chief Roy, who represents the highest enlisted level of leadership, is responsible for providing direction to the enlisted force and representing their interests, as appropriate, to the American

  • NO EARLY RETIREMENT INCENTIVES FOR AFMC CIVILIANS IN FY11

    Air Force Materiel Command officials have announced that voluntary retirement and separation incentives will not be offered to its civilian workforce during the remainder of fiscal year 2011 which ends Sept 30. Instead, the command will continue using Air Force civilian hiring controls to manage the

  • AEDC's Brad McClure still counting his blessings

    Brad McClure considers himself blessed. When the tornado "season" was getting underway earlier in the year, his home was damaged, but not destroyed. Trees were laying on the front of the house and the shop behind it was missing its roof and a large door and block wall was blown out on two sides as

  • AEDC’s Rod Stewart enjoys finding diamonds in the rough … literally

    Rod Stewart knows how unbelievable his pastime can sound.Stewart, AEDC's scientific technical information officer, attended an acquisitions class recently. To get acquainted, everyone in the class had to tell four things about themselves. The kicker: one fact was not true, and everyone in the class

  • AEDC Coffee Airfoilers: Still flying after 50 years

    Page 16 of the April 1964 issue of High Mach features a photo of the Coffee Airfoilers Model Airplane Club.Men and boys pose with the model airplanes they fly at the club's flying field, which, like today, is located adjacent to the Arnold Golf Course.AEDC's Rich Eichel and Eric Bjorn know how much

  • Five Air Force Academy cadets intern at AEDC

    Five Air Force Academy cadets who recently spent five weeks at AEDC with the Air Force Academy's Cadet Summer Research Program, enjoyed the break from studying and saw practical ways to apply what they had been pursuing academically. Cadets Steven Alsen, Tate Montgomery, Andrew Petry, Bryan Rhoades

  • ATA employee attends his 61st space shuttle launch

    The last launch of the space shuttle program had plenty of suspense. For days, NASA officials said the chance weather would allow Atlantis to launch as scheduled on July 8 was about 30 percent, but the skies cleared enough to allow a launch attempt. Then at T-minus 31 seconds, the countdown clock

  • Air Force announces AFMC senior leader changes

    The Air Force announced July 7, 2011, the re-assignment of Lt. Gen. Janet C. Wolfenbarger from Air Force Materiel Command vice commander to military deputy to the assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.The Air Force also announced the President's

  • New cameras make image capture easier at AEDC ballistics range

    Until recently, getting new parts for the laser camera system at AEDC's Hypervelocity Ballistic Range G was a lot like antique shopping.In a time when it's hard to buy a new camera that isn't digital, workers at Range G have been stretching their resources to keep their film-based camera equipment