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  • HANDLE WITH CARE

    With recent gun activity incidents involving two Air Force service members, both resulting in weapon discharges inside homes off-base and on-base, JBER leadership would like to make gun owners aware that firearm safety is no laughing matter.People purchase guns every day, be it from those wanting for the use of protection to those buying for the
  • USAF 7 Summits Update (21 Apr: Everest-A (very) brief climbing history)

    As we wait for word on whether the team has made it's first of several trips through the Khumbu Icefall to Camp 1 at 19,900', we'd like to offer a short history lesson on Mt. Everest climbing. 2013 is an auspicious year to be on Everest, as it is the 60th anniversary of the first ascent by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, and the 50th
  • USAF 7 Summits post: Apr 18: Lobuche Peak Climb!

    What a great day to be alive! It's 7:45pm on the 18th and most the team is already asleep in their tents. We are at Lobuche Base Camp and recently finished up a meal of curried rice, cauliflower, roast chicken, soup and cake. Yes- somehow the Sherpas baked two cakes in their rugged camp kitchen- one for a climber's birthday and one to celebrate
  • 7 Summits Update (18 Apr: Lobuche summit bid)

    By the time you read this, our USAF 7 Summits climbers should have returned from 20,161' Lobuche peak. They moved to high camp yesterday, and expected to summit on Apr 18. We hope to hear word back from them (and hopefully get some summit photos) as they make their way back to Everest Base Camp (EBC) tomorrow, since they will pass through the
  • Airmen make progress in bid for Everest

    A team of Air Force mountaineers began their journey to ascend and summit Mount Everest recently as the final expedition of the independent U.S. Air Force Seven Summit Challenge. The team of six Airmen is underway on a 50-day journey to the highest mountain on earth, completing a project that began eight years ago with the goal of reaching the
  • Face of Defense: Airman Brings Weapons Safety to Kabul

    Safety is a cornerstone of almost everything the Air Force does, and when it comes to weapons safety, one unsafe act could be the difference between life and death.Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam Albrecht, 386th Air Expeditionary Wing weapons safety noncommissioned officer, recently returned from a forward deployment to Kabul, Afghanistan, where he
  • Distracted drivers are traffic dangers

    Everyone knows about the dangers of drunk driving and is encouraged to have a plan in place to get home safely. Many may not realize, however, the things they do every day in their car, like eating, visiting with passengers, or talking on their cell phones, also pose a danger.April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. According to Luis
  • Motorcycle safety course "trains the trainers"

    The 39th Air Base Wing safety office hosted a motorcycle safety trainer's course that began on March 5 and ends March 15 as part of a U. S. Air Forces in Europe/Air Forces Africa initiative to have more motorcycle safety trainers.The course is designed to teach motorcycle riders how to coach other riders in motorcycle safety classes in a "train the
  • Confessions of a text offender

    As the emergency contact for my mother and sister, and because I'm a single mom, I'm never far from my phone. My reality is that I have to have my phone near me at all times. A side effect of this is that I have developed an obsessive compulsion with texting. If I receive a text message, I HAVE to grab the phone and respond almost immediately. And,
  • 'Seeing' safety important in deployed maintenance

    Melting skin, permanent blindness and facial scarring can be real hazards that Air Force maintainers face daily.Hazards from hydraulic fluid, engine oil and jet fuel are just a few of the dangers Airmen with the 351st Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron have to deal with at home, as well as at deployed locations.Airmen from the 100th Air Refueling
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