• The Retiree Activity Office held a picnic lunch, July 9, 2008, at the 911th Airlift Wing pavillion. Several other activities are planned throughout the year. (U.S. Air Force Reserve photo/ Master Sgt. Mark Winklosky

    Retiree Activity Office provides advice, services

    The 911 Airlift Wing Retiree Activities Office is now open for business. The office, located in building 316 room 100, is open Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The RAO is a program focused toward helping retirees with their military benefits by offering help and advice with Tricare, survivor benefits, obtaining DD Form 214, and

  • Support still needed for local Commissary

    Shop now for a bigger and better future. The C. E. Kelly Commissary has been approved to be co-located with the 99th Regional Readiness Command, Army Reserve, in Coraopolis, Pa. Retired Col. Chester E. Oddis, a member of the Western Pennsylvania Coalition for Job Retention and Military Presence, Inc., is asking for help to keep funds flowing

  • A recruiter's perspective on health professionals

    Boy...am I enthusiastic! For six long, stressful and tumultuous weeks at Recruiter School, I shouted those four words daily. I never imagined that six years later, I would find myself continuing to say them with conviction. It was determined that the Air Force Reserve was in critical demand of physicians. During this last recruiting year, the Air

  • Pride In Ownership

    Since the World War I era, nose art for aircraft has been used. The Memphis Belle, Flying Tigers and Enola Gay are just some of the more famous planes that may come to mind; each had its own unique nose art painting. During WWII, the crews of those planes could easily tell what plane it was by the nose art rather than the aircraft's tail
  • Col. Gordon H. Elwell, Jr., commander of the 911th Airlift Wing, and Col. Steven Zander, deputy director of installation and mission support with the Air Force Reserve Command, cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony of Veterans Gate July 9, 2008. The ceremony marked the completion of the first phase to update the main entrance to the 911th AW. (U.S. Air Force Reserve photo/ Master Sgt. Mark Winklosky)

    Front Gate transforms for Force Protection

    A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held here to mark the opening of the 911th Airlift Wing's "Veterans Gate" July 9, 2008. The new gate, which has been under construction since October 2007, marks the completion of the first phase to update the main entrance to the 911th AW. "The first day went very well," said Maj. John Bojanac, 911th Security Forces
  • Airmen from the 911th Airlift Wing (right) listen to instructions to process through a mobility line Aug. 9, in Hangar 129. The mobility processing is part of the preparation for the Operational Readiness Inpection happening December 2009. (U.S. Air Force Reserve photo/ Senior Airman Tammy Cario

    Training exercise scheduled for September

    All Airmen must have the ability to survive and operate if an attack were to take place against the base. Airmen at the 911th Airlift Wing will have the chance to put those skills into practice during the Ability to Survive and Operate Exercise scheduled for the September Unit Training Assembly here. The ATSO will evaluate each Airman's ability to

  • Changes ahead for Key Spouse Group

    Greetings from the Key Spouse Group, soon to be known as "Family & Friends of the Pittsburgh Military Community." Exciting things are happening with our group, and we would love to see everyone get involved and take part in the fun. We are now open to not only spouses, but any member of a military members family who would like to be involved with

  • 911th, 910th team-up to host enlisted workshop

    A joint partnership between the 911th Airlift Wing and 910th AW in Youngstown, Ohio, will host a newly formed enlisted workshop for all enlisted ranks Nov. 2-3 at the Boardman, Ohio, Holiday Inn. The theme of this year's workshop is "Wingman, Leader, and Warrior: Navigation for Life!" Topics for the event are: retirement planning, understanding
  • A ceremony was held June 29, 2008 to rededicate Pittsburgh’s Boulevard of the Allies, which was named at the conclusion of World War I more than 90 years ago. (Photo by 2nd Lt. Shawn M. Walleck, Public Affairs)

    Rededication Of Pittsburgh's Boulevard of the Allies

    "We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency--clear, disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought. America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is

  • Air show first to host historical Berlin Airlift photo display

    Historical German and American relations became one of the highlights recently with the Berlin Airlift's 60th Anniversary "Friends Always" campaign making its inaugural appearance in the United States at the 2008 Wings Over Pittsburgh air show, May 10 and 11. "It is a great honor for Pittsburgh and the 911th to be the premiere showcase for the
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