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  • You want Katrina White in your corner

    White, a financial operations supervisor with the 434th Operations Support Squadron, is a kickboxer, and dedicated to fitness for herself and others. During the October unit training assembly White held a kickboxing class, and with each jab, kick and uppercut, she demonstrated, and shared, her

  • Grissom bids farewell to Col. Larry Shaw

    The familiar whistle that breaks the silence in the hallways of Grissom’s headquarters will now be a tune heard by memory. That whistle, Col. Larry Shaw’s trademark pre-cursor to his energetic entrance, will reverberate here no longer. Shaw retired as commander of the 434th Air Refueling Wing March

  • Team Grissom kicks off holiday donation drive

    Grissom’s Airman and Family Readiness Center is accepting donations for its annual food drive until the Saturday of the November unit training assembly.Donation boxes will be in every building throughout the base.

  • Marines return to in-person drilling

    Practice can make perfect, but what happens when practice is no longer an option amid a pandemic that has forced in-person training to be nearly impossible?You have to start over and re-learn old, and new equipment.After months of virtual unit training assemblies the Marines from Detachment 1

  • Team Grissom continues to improve their processes

    Grissom’s continuous process improvement team held an event to discuss problems found within the administrative discharge packages process. The team meets when problems are found within a processes. Such problems could be taking too long, including too many steps or other factors making it harder to

  • 434th Mission Support Group welcomes Wiltse as new leader

    Col. Gretchen Wiltse assumed command of the 434th Mission Support Group during a ceremony here, July. 9, marking her first unit training assembly as the unit’s new commander.Wiltse proudly accepted the group’s guidon from Col. Scott Russell, who led the group since 2014.

  • Grissom defender earns high security forces honor

     Being committed to a job well done and going above and beyond the call of duty is a key component of leadership. For some it takes practice. For others like Staff Sgt. Lance Buechler, it comes naturally and has earned him command-level recognition.

  • Grissom Marines kick off Toys for Tots drive

    For over 70 years, the Marine Corps Reserve has worked to make the holidays a little brighter with its Toys for Tots program. Marines from Detachment One, Communication Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 45, 4th Marine Logistics Group, are leading the charge here on base, for the campaign that

  • Grissom security forces hosts IRS training cadre

    The Hoosier Wing has a reputation for being a good neighbor to the local community. A key component of that reputation lies in the mutual aid agreements the base has with local law enforcement and first responding agencies.

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

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

Senior Airman Elise Faurote
Staff writer