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  • Scott Airman provides deploying medics critical skills needed to save lives

    The last thing patients being rushed to an emergency room or trauma center want to worry about is if their nurse or medic has been properly trained.But patients don’t need to worry about that with Tech. Sgt. Emily Irwin-Green on the job. She’s an emergency and trauma nursing instructor assigned to

  • 375th OSS ATCALS flight ensures aircraft safety for landings, takeoffs

    Scott Air Force Base relies heavily on the Air Traffic Control and Landing Systems flight of the 375th Operations Support Squadron to maintain all airfield systems to ensure the safe take-off and landing of incoming and outgoing aircraft. Originally an asset of the Communications Squadron, the

  • Scott women overcome obstacles, appreciate female pathfinders

    To be a woman in today’s military is to embrace every opportunity military service offers. That wasn’t the case during the early years when women were only allowed to hold certain positions. But, now, women can join all combat fields without exception. Many women serving in the Armed Forces today

  • 618th Air Operations Center enables Operation Atlantic Resolve mission

    Rain drops pelt the nose of a C-5M Galaxy airlifter as its loading ramp descends, revealing a cavernous cargo hold packed with enough Army air power to level a tank column.Three AH-64 Apache attack helicopters from the 1st Battalion, 501st Aviation Regiment at Fort Bliss, Texas, roll out of the C-5

  • 618th AOC/XOW helps enable rapid global mobility

    As one of the eight directorates in the 618th Air Operations Center, the Global Weather Operations Directorate, or XOW, at Scott helps enable the Air Operations Center to plan, task, execute and assess global air mobility operations, provide tailored weather information to help shape mission plans,

  • Team Scott remembers Gen. Daniel ‘Chappie’ James

    Editor’s note: In honor of African American Heritage Month, Team Scott pays tribute to legends with ties to Scott AFB.Gen. Daniel “Chappie” James, Jr., made history in 1975 when he received his fourth star, making him the first African-American general not only in the Air Force, but also across all

  • Scott celebrates African American History Month

    January began the kick-off of Team Scott’s centennial celebration and in February we continue this celebration with African American History Month.The African American Heritage Committee will continue our centennial celebration by highlighting the rich African American heritage embedded in the

  • Airman’s invention for safer hitch bar could affect entire trucking industry

    There’s an innovative idea from a Scott Air Force Base Airman that could affect the entire trucking industry.The “Meyer’s Bar,” nicknamed after its inventor, Staff Sgt. Joshua Meyer, is a 5-foot reinforced steel bar that has been constructed to support a lowboy trailer’s hydraulic gooseneck hitch to

  • Scott’s history has family connections

    Editor’s note: Below is an excerpt from the Jan. 6 Centennial Kickoff program.By Lt. Col. Matthew GettyMaster of Ceremony for the Centennial KickoffScott Air Force Base has an incredible story of innovation, communication and excellence. It started as a pilot training base during World War I,