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    Scott showcases 375th AMW to AMC leaders

    U.S. Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, Air Mobility Command commander, Chief Master Sgt. Brian Kruzelnick, AMC command chief, and their spouses visited the 375th Air Mobility Wing at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, April 8-9, 2021, to see the wing’s capabilities and recognize Airmen who deliver rapid global mobility. 
  • Airman 1st Class Kyle Lednicky, 375th Logistics Readiness Squadron logistics planner, works on deployment system utilization at the installation deployment readiness center on Scott Air Force Base, Ill., April 2, 2021. Deployment system utilization catalogs the movement of cargo and personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Shannon Moorehead)

    Moving the mobility machine: 375th LRS supports rapid global mobility

    The quiet chatter of talking permeates the air as Airmen tread softly down a line, papers in hand as they wait patiently to hand over their carefully accumulated documents at the end. This is the personnel deployment function line. Manned by members of the installation deployment readiness cell, it is the beginning of simulated deployment process during exercises and is just one way that they enable rapid global mobility.
  • Three Airmen are briefed.

    Team Scott showcases medical team to Air Force Surgeon General

    Lt. Gen. Dorothy Hogg, Air Force Surgeon General, and Chief Master Sgt. Dawn M. Kolcynski, Medical Enlisted Force and enlisted corps chief, were given a tour of the medical facilities and assets across Scott Air Force Base, March 9. The tour was led by Col. Richard L. Woodruff Jr., 375th Medical Group commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Keyser Voigt, 375th Med Group command chief. The tour highlighted three of Scott’s medical assets, the 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, the O’Fallon Family Health Medical Clinic and the 375th Med Group.
  • C-21 pilot Capt. Chandler Thorpe, 458th Airlift Squadron, and Washington University graduate student Kyle Gero go through a pre-flight checklist. Gero is a graduate student, who is collaborating with Scott’s Elevate innovation team and the squadron on a C-21 cockpit trainer project. The C-21 aircraft inventory went through an avionics upgrade in 2019, however, the training simulator uses the older cockpit configuration.

    Scott Innovation Lab partners with area grad students for creative solutions

    Recently, two groups of graduate students from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., visited Scott Air Force Base to work with the Elevate innovation team to identify potential solutions to two different challenges impacting the flying mission here. One of the groups is working with C-21 pilots on a cockpit trainer. The second group of students is working to identify potential solutions to prevent flooding in Hangar 3, which sits in a low-lying area on base.
  • Liz Wilde is the St. Louis Department of Veterans Affairs’ program coordinator for Transition and Care Management. She helps retiring and separating servicemembers by educating them about VA benefits and services. Her office is on the fifth floor at the base medical clinic.

    VA coordinator helps navigate military transition to civilian life

    Located on the fifth floor of the base medical clinic, the Department of Veterans Affairs-St. Louis Transition and Care Management office helps retiring and separating servicemembers make the move from military to civilian life by providing VA healthcare registration services for those who are within one year of discharge or retirement.
  • Airmen train

    How medics earn their wings

    As the only training unit for the aeromedical evacuation career field, the 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Training Squadron instructs all active duty, Guard and Reserve Airmen in the upgrade process to become flight nurses and AE technicians. The training culminates in a check-ride, on board an in-flight aircraft, where the student is expected to successfully treat a simulated patient in varying degrees of distress.
  • people talking

    CMSAF Bass weathers the storm with Team Scott

    Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force JoAnne Bass conducted a visit across Team Scott Feb. 16 and 17, 2021, visiting multiple work centers to interact with active, guard and reserve Airmen.
  • man standing in front of 19 others

    Airmen, Guardians

    The first mass U.S. Space Force induction ceremony on Scott AFB
  • Women standing in room

    Scott AFB looks to better serve its families with EFMP One Stop

    This spring, Scott Air Force Base families will be able to access services, information, and resources under the Exceptional Family Member Program in one location at the Airman & Family Readiness Center.
  • Man speaks to two other men

    18th AF commander, command chief visits Showcase Wing

    Maj. Gen. Thad Bibb, Jr., 18th Air Force commander and Chief Master Sgt. Chad W. Bickley, his Command Chief, toured the Scott Air Force Bases "Showcase Wing” Jan. 28-29, and shared messages of staying balanced, keeping an eye on “our Wingmen,” keeping high standards, and “accelerating change” as the Air Force has outlined.
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