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  • Firefighters respond to local communities

    The Grissom Air Reserve Base Fire Department responded to 138 calls for assistance during the fourth quarter of 2006 as part of a mutual aid agreement with the local communities. Those responses included 117 medical responses, 15 vehicle incident, four fire or alarm activations and two hazardous

  • Wing Top3 forms

    The first ever 434th Air Refueling Wing Top 3 was recently organized and is already making headway while providing senior NCOs with four key pieces to success, said Chief Master Sergeant Peri Rogowski, 434th ARW command chief. These pieces, key to the role of senior NCOs, are mentorship, morale

  • Unit gets 'diamond in the rough'

    Just as a diamond undergoes a long and difficult process while becoming a gem, passing through pressure and stress, and being cut, polished and refined, so must those who call themselves first sergeants. Master Sgt. Kevin Smith, who was recently selected as the 434th Mission Support Flight first

  • Grissom performs refueling 'first'

    Seventeen members of the 434th Air Refueling Wing wrapped up a near month-long deployment to Southwest Asia as they deployed to participate in Exercise Iron Falcon 0701. The description that Iron Falcon is to Southwest Asia what Red Flag is to Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., is very accurate, said Lt.

  • Grissom Airmen deploy for Patriot Defender

    Forty-one members of the 434th Air Refueling Wing are attending a training exercise called Patriot Defender at Camp Swift, Texas. Thirty-six 434th Security Forces Squadron members will participate in the two week exercise designed to refresh basic security skills. The exercise gives individuals who

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Material contained on the Official Grissom Air Reserve Base Internet Web Site is written and produced by members of the 434th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs Office. The award-winning staff includes:

Douglas Hays
Chief, public affairs

Maj. Elias Zani
Public affairs officer

Josh Weaver
Public affairs operations chief

Master Sgt. Josh Weaver
NCOIC of public affairs

Master Sgt. Rachel Barton
Staff writer

Tech. Sgt. Alexa Culbert
Staff writer

Senior Airman Alexis Morris
Staff writer

Airman 1st Class Elise Faurote
Staff writer