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  • New kiosk system makes MPF more efficient

    For the past couple months, when you walk into the military personnel flight at Scott Air Force Base, you might have noticed a different piece of machinery filling up your scenery asking you to sign-in for service. What looks like a fancy touch screen computer is helping make not just MPF, but

  • Air Traffic Control: Monitoring the skies

    SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill.— To the untrained eye, watching a plane soar through the air seems almost effortless. What most people don’t see though is the intense coordination that air traffic control Airmen orchestrate to ensure it’s possible.“We’re the ones who make sure our aircraft and pilots are

  • Lighter-than-Air Era

    A poster depicting the era of airships at Scott Field. Source: 375th AMW/History Office. Graphic by Karen Petitt, 375th AMW/Public Affairs.

  • Heathman takes reigns of 375th AMW

    Col. J. Scot Heathman assumed command of the 375th Air Mobility Wing during an Assumption of Command ceremony here, June 25, 2019.

  • 457th Airlift Squadron inactivates, celebrates history

    SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- As members both past and present watched the 457th Airlift Squadron’s guidon be rolled up and stored away at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland as part of an inactivation ceremony on June 14, they knew a proud and storied history went with it.“Getting to command a squadron as