Advice from the top: Find your support, be supportive
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Women’s History Month is an opportunity to share stories of the past and celebrate the achievements of individuals who operated outside of societal norms and achieved success, setting the stage for future generations to follow.
Nevada Guardsman, movie subject, leads Nevada Storm to women's football championship game
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Airman 1st Class Jasmine Plummer is reserved and shy among her peers in the Nevada Air Guard. She’s been that way her entire life.
But there is nothing reserved or shy about her play on the football field.
Air Guard’s ‘Baby Doc’ overcomes early health condition to become leader in pandemic battle
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Undeterred by a rare health condition early in life, Nevada Air Guard 1st Lt. Caleena Longworth is now on the front line of health care in southern Nevada during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Few in the state have vaccinated more people than Longworth, who has personally administered the vaccine to more than 4,000 people while acquiring the nickname “Baby Doc” from her health care coworkers given her youthful appearance. And she did that all while finishing her medical doctorate at University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine this spring.
Crash in the Ocean: Air Force aids TBM Avenger pilot
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On a warm, sunny Saturday afternoon, a pilot mans the controls of a TBM Avenger, a U.S. Navy warplane, as he soars over Cocoa Beach, Florida.
Rookie special agent saves injured truck driver
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As Special Agent Jonathan Parker drove home June 9 from OSI Detachment 405 at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, he approached a chemical tanker truck overturned on its side, potentially causing an explosive chemical leak on Interstate-65 North, near Montgomery, Alabama.
Art of forged blades
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The art of the forging metal has been around for thousands of years, but as society has modernized so has the technology and the industrial process; however, there is one member of Columbus Air Force Base, who belongs to a small community of people who still take raw variations of steel and metal to make resourceful tools from it.