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  • Spirit Spotlight: Staff Sgt. Brady Cooper

    Staff Sgt. Brady Cooper is a Hutchinson, Kan., native who joined the 931st Air Refueling Group after 10 years as an active-duty Airman and three years in the Air National Guard. He recently became an air reserve technician, or ART, a federal civil service employee who works for a unit full-time

  • New Hampshire Guardsmen get 931st mission back in air

    Somewhere over Canada, inside a KC-135 Stratotanker, came an unwanted wake-up call for Tech. Sgt. Trevor Derenthal's maintenance crew. The hydraulics on the right side of the aircraft were gone, they were told. "We're not going to Italy," thought Sergeant Derenthal, a crew chief assigned to the

  • Sunday Blues

    Senior Airman Shaun Hargadine enjoys a lighter moment during a 931st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron commander's call in July 2009. Airman Hargadine and his fellow maintainers were required to wear their service dress uniform for inspection on the Sunday of their unit training assembly. Click here to

  • Sunny Southwest Asia

    A low desert sun casts a warm glow on KC-135 Stratotankers deployed to Southwest Asia. The scene was captured by Master Sgt. Bob Lorenz during his recent deployment with other Airmen assigned to the 931st Air Refueling Group, a Reserve unit at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. More than 10 percent of

  • New Web site offers Space-A information

    Air Mobility Command officials here recently unveiled its first official, command-level AMC Travel Web site. People planning to travel the AMC military travel system can now point their Web browsers to http://www.amc.af.mil/amctravel/index.asp for the latest in AMC travel information. The site,

  • Pink at the Pow Wow

    A Native American dancer gives a colorful performance during the Kaw Nation's annual Intertribal Pow Wow near Kaw City, Okla., on Aug. 2. Like its home state of Kansas, the 931st Air Refueling Group draws its identity from the proud Kanza people of the Kaw Nation. "Kanza" is the official call sign

  • Wichita Boys and Girls Club members visit 931st ARG

    Some Airmen from the 931st Air Refueling Group took time out of their busy unit training assembly schedules in July to host some honorary weekend warriors.Members from the Boys and Girls Club of South Central Kansas were invited here to see the 931st up close during its monthly gathering. The visit,

  • Honorary Boom Operator

    Mr. Dave Wenz learns what it is like to be a boom operator of a KC-135 Stratotanker during an aerial refueling mission in late July 2009. Mr. Wenz is a Special Olympics Board member and the honorary commander of the 931st Civil Engineer Squadron, an Air Force Reserve unit at McConnell Air Force

  • Three-day Kaw Pow Wow starts Friday

    The Kaw Nation Intertribal Pow Wow, an annual event, is scheduled to begin Friday in Kaw City, Okla. The 931st Air Refueling Group adopted the Kaw Nation, a sovereign Native-American tribe, soon after it stood up here in 1995. Like its home state of Kansas, the 931st ARG draws its identity from the

  • Congratulations Chief

    Chief Master Sgt. Don Askren completed his final KC-135 Stratotanker mission here Thursday. He is scheduled to soon retire as the chief boom operator of the 18th Air Refueling Squadron, the flying unit of the 931st Air Refueling Squadron.Airmen from throughout the 931st ARG were at the flightline