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  • 4th of July posters available on AF Link

    The 4th of July will soon be here and four posters are available for download and display through AF Link, the Air Force's official internet web site.  Virginia Reyes of the Air Force News Agency in San Antonio created the posters utilizing photos taken by Senior Airman Desiree L. Andrejcik.   To

  • Marine Corps League to be part of retiree appreciation day

    The number of groups who will be part of the Military Retiree Appreciation Day at Grissom ARB continues to grow.  The most recent addition is the Marine Corps League.  The appreciation day is Friday, August 22, 2008.This is the second year Grissom has held a Military Retiree Appreciation Day.  This

  • Army Jazz Band in Wabash tonight

    The United States Army Jazz Ambassadors will be in concert in Wabash, Ind., tonight at 7:30 p.m.  The 19-member big band group is the Army's premier touring jazz orchestra.  Their repertoire includes big band swing, contemporary jazz, standards, popular tunes, Dixieland, vocals, bebop, Latin and

  • Tuskegee Airman dies

    Retired Lt. Col. Charles Dryden, 87, one of the famed "Tuskegee Airmen" who broke the military's color barrier by becoming a World War II fighter pilot, died June 24 in Atlanta. Colonel Dryden was born Sept. 16, 1920 in New York City to Jamaican parents. He graduated from Peter Stuyvesant High

  • GCC board to meet this week

    The Grissom Community Council executive board will hold its monthly meeting on Friday, July 11 at noon at the base dining facility. The GCC is a civilian non-profit organization that works in partnership with Grissom ARB to promote programs to benefit both the base and the local community. The

  • USAF Marathon looking for volunteers

    The annual United States Air Force Marathon will be held at Wright-Patterson AFB on September 20. Events include the marathon, wheelchair marathon, half marathon, individual 10K, and team 10K.  The USAF Marathon is always held in September to commemorate the founding of the Air Force as a separate

  • New AFRC commander has Grissom roots

    Lt. Gen. Charles E. Stenner, Jr., the new commander of the Air Force Reserve, has a distinguished military career which included leadership positions at Grissom in the 1980s and 1990s.General Stenner assumed command of the Air Force Reserve and its 68,000 members on June 24. He succeeded Lt. Gen.

  • July edition of Heartland Warrior now available

    The July 2008 edition of Grissom ARB's E-Paper, the Heartland Warrior, is now available. The Heartland Warrior has eight pages of stories, photos and features on the 434th Air Refueling Wing and its people. Top stories in the July edition include: --Airmen maximize training in Turkey--New health

  • Airmen now sporting staff sergeant stripes

    Twelve  Airmen from Grissom are now wearing staff sergeant stripes due to their recent promotions.  The new staff sergeants are  from a variety of organizations including Logistics, Maintenance, Civil Engineer, Services and Communications.The new staff sergeants are Jonathan Christmas and Megan

  • Seven sew on technical sergeant stripes

    Seven persons from Grissom were recently promoted to the rank of technical sergeant.  The individuals are David Gorski, Jason Haselhoff, Darren Hegyiand and Gary Moore, 434th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron; Ritchey Moore, 434th Civil Engineers Squadron; Bridget Smith, 434th Air Refueling Wing; and

Public Affairs Staff

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

Ben Mota
Public affairs operations chief

Master Sgt. Rachel Barton
Staff writer

Tech. Sgt. Alexa Culbert
Staff writer

Senior Airman Elise Faurote
Staff writer