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  • Top 3 hosts golf tourney for good cause

    The 419th Fighter Wing's Top 3 will host a golf tournament fundraiser at the Hubbard Golf Course here May 6 at 9 a.m. The tournament is open to all ranks and family members. Cost is $200 per four-person team (includes golf, cart, prizes and food). Funds raised will go to support Top 3 programs and

  • Communication helps children cope with deployments

    For service members and their families, preparing for an upcoming deployment is another of the many challenges unique to military life. Letting children know that they can talk about their fears and worries when preparing for a deployment helps them prepare for stressful situations in the

  • 419th and 388th Airmen return home

    More than 200 Airmen from the 388th and 419th Fighter Wings received a warm welcome home April 23 after a seven-month deployment to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.Family and friends gathered in the hangar together and anxiously awaited their loved ones' return, who had been gone since September to

  • SLIDESHOW: Fifth-graders get AF Reserve 101

    It was Air Force Reserve 101 for the fifth-grade class at Blessed Sacrament Catholic School in Sandy, Utah, as reservists from the 419th Fighter Wing hosted a special tour here April 19. The students were schooled on the F-16 aircraft before heading to the 419th Explosive Ordnance Disposal shop,

  • IN FOCUS: Tech. Sgt. Michelle Wilkerson

    Public affairs recently sat down with Tech. Sgt. Michelle Wilkerson, unit training manager and clinical laboratory craftsmen in the 419th Medical Squadron, as part of a series  highlighting the wing Airmen. Sergeant Wilkerson helps keep the squadron trained and ready for deployments and promotions.

  • Camp open to teens of AF Reservists

    Teens of Air Force Reservists may apply to attend the Joint Reserve Component's Teen Leadership Summit. The summit is open to 14 to 18-year-old dependents of current military members and is centered on fostering leadership skills and self-confidence. The week-long event will take place at Wahsega

  • Reservists among Hill's CCAF graduates

    Family, friends and colleagues gathered at Club Hill for the Community College of the Air Force Spring 2011 Graduation ceremony Tuesday. The ceremony honored all who had put in the extra time and effort to further themselves and their education by completing the requirements for the CCAFs Associate

  • SLIDESHOW: The swing of things

    Air Force Reservists from the 419th Fighter Wing put on their dress uniforms and dancing shoes Thursday to join residents at Chancellor Gardens Assisted Living Center, for their spring dance.View the slideshowThe personnel volunteered after they learned the center was in need of dance partners."Our

  • Two 419th reservists to be honored at Military Salute Banquet

    Two Air Force Reservists from the 419th Fighter Wing will be honored at the 2011 Military Salute Banquet in Salt Lake City tonight. The Military Affairs Committee of the Salt Lake Chamber will pay tribute to Utah's outstanding Guard and Reserve members, including Capt. Shad Stromberg and Senior

  • End of an Era: Vietnam vet's service spans four decades

    May 1972 - Nixon was president, soul singer Roberta Flack topped the charts, and gasoline was 36 cents a gallon. In San Francisco, oversized vans decked with flowers and peace signs lined the streets outside the airport where Ken Payne, fresh off a year-long deployment to Vietnam, stepped back onto