• Team Dyess attends USAFA, ACU women's basketball match-up

    Abilene Christian University's Lady Wildcats (7-2) beat the U.S. Air Force Academy Lady Falcons (1-10) in an 80-44 victory Dec. 20, at Moody Coliseum in Abilene, Texas.ACU welcomed members of Team Dyess to the game free of admission as a part of the school's Dyess Air Force Base Day. In attendance

  • Dyess Fire Department trains with local college

    The Dyess Fire Department participated in a mass casualty exercise Dec. 12, 2014, at the Texas State Technical College Abilene campus in Abilene, Texas.The Dyess Air Force Base firefighters provided auto extrication service for paramedic students at the school.For many of the paramedics, this was

  • 77th WPS training is as real as it can get

    The 77th Weapons Squadron and the 39th Airlift Squadron from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, participated in a simulated airfield seizure with Joint Terminal Attack Controllers from the 66th WPS, Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., and a U.S. Army Special Forces unit, Oct. 21-23, in Snyder.The airfield

  • DoD passes new policy on allotments

    Beginning Jan. 1, military service members will no longer be able to use allotments to purchase, lease or rent personal property.According to the Department of Defense, the policy change prohibits starting new allotments to purchase or finance vehicles, appliances, household goods, electronics or

  • An Air Force dynamic duo

    DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas- The shop is full of constant howling, bones and bouncy balls scattered on the floor, a pungent smell and the king of this domain is a four-legged creature that lies on a couch and greets people with a slobbery lick.It's just another day for Staff Sgt. Andre Hernandez,

  • 317th AG delivers during massive JFE

    On Dec. 6, eleven C-130J Super Hercules aircraft from the 317th Airlift Group participated in a joint forcible entry exercise at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. That same morning, a combined 24 C-130 H and J models from the 317th AG and multiple Air National Guard Bases from across the United States

  • CAF: Retired Chaplain talks spiritual resiliency in the face of adversity

    Rev. Bill Libby, McMurry University assistant professor of religion, spoke during a Comprehensive Airmen Fitness (CAF) event organized to explain the importance of spiritual resiliency Nov. 24, at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.Libby, a retired chaplain and Vietnam War veteran, served in the U.S. Army

  • Enlisted all call held to disseminate enlisted promotion system changes

    Chief Master Sgt. Eddie Webb, 7th Bomb Wing command chief, held an enlisted all call here Nov. 18, to disseminate recent changes made to the Enlisted Evaluation System.During the all call, Master Sgt. Charles Rickman, 7th Force Support Squadron military personnel section superintendent, went into

  • Dyess B-1B Lancers take charge in Razor Talon

    Team Dyess Airmen and B-1B Lancers took the lead role in Razor Talon, a joint-integration exercise off the coast of North Carolina, Nov. 14.Units from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., Langley Air Force Base, Va., and Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., teamed up with Dyess to employ targeting techniques