• Dyess Airmen participate in CAPEX

    Twenty Dyess Airmen from the 7th Munitions Squadron participated in the Pacific Air Forces' 2015 Combat Ammunition Production Exercise at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, May 31- June 6.CAPEX evaluates a host unit's mission readiness. It also provides training in mass, live munitions production

  • Team Dyess completes Linear Air Park restoration

    More than 120 Team Dyess volunteers completed a major restoration project of 36 aircraft June 12, finishing the refurbishment of the C-130E Hercules near the front gate at the Linear Air Park.Originally established through the Texas Museum of Military History in 1981, the park is a two-mile-long

  • Traffic Delays at Arnold Gate

    ATTENTION TEAM DYESS:Due to a previously scheduled event please expect some traffic delay at the Arnold Gate June 16 from 7:30-8 a.m. The Tye Gate will be open, with no expected delays.

  • Memorial service to be held for Dyess Airman

    A memorial service is to be held in honor of Senior Airman Leanne Locascio at 12:30 p.m. June 12, at the base theater here.Twenty-five year old Locascio was killed in a motorcycle accident on FM 126 near Mulberry Canyon, approximately 15 miles outside of Abilene, June 6, 2015.Locascio was assigned

  • UPDATED: Dyess Airman passes away after motorcycle accident

    An Airman assigned to the 7th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Dyess Air Force Base was pronounced dead at University Hospital on June 6, 2015.Senior Airman Leanne Locascio was transported from Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene to University Hospital in Lubbock, to be treated for injuries suffered

  • Dyess Airman passes away after motorcycle accident

    An Airman assigned to the 7th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Dyess Air Force Base was pronounced dead at University Hospital in Lubbock on June 6, 2015.The Airman was transported to the hospital to be treated for injuries following a motorcycle accident on FM 126 in Mulberry Canyon.The name of the

  • OPM to Notify Employees of Cybersecurity Incident

    The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Department of Defense have announced that a recent cybersecurity incident may have exposed personal information of current and federal employees.  Although further details about the incident itself are not being released publicly at this time, it

  • Dyess awarded Texas Medal of Honor

    Lt. Col. William Edwin Dyess, Dyess Air Force Base's namesake, was posthumously awarded the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor for 2015, April 30, in Austin, Texas.Every two years, the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor Selection Committee votes to award the Medal of Honor to two persons: one to a

  • 337th TES operationally tests Block 16, INS-R in Asia-Pacific

    On May 18, the last of two 337th Test and Evaluation Squadron B-1B Lancers returned to Dyess from a training mission to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, during which the B-1's Block-16 upgrade and inertial navigation system replacement (INS-R) were evaluated on long-duration and trans-hemispheric