11 Jul 2018

Commentary: Dyess hosts cadets from around the country

Immersion – that’s the name of the game. Every summer, the Air Force sends cadets from detachments all over the country to bases for two and a half weeks to get them out of “cadet land” and into the day-to-day action of the Air Force. Dyess Air Force Base generously hosts one of the largest such groups of cadets, boasting 25 members from 19

16 Jan 2018

Defender duo: New handler bonds quickly with MWD

The handler passes through the gate he once guarded and heads for the armory. After he arms up with an M-9 pistol, he places it in his leg holster and drives to the military working dogs location and approaches the kennels. He walks with a smile to Rexi, military working dog, and gets greeted with dog saliva to the face. This is how Senior Airman

15 Dec 2017

Dyess participates in USAFWS Joint Forcible Entry 17B

Seventeen C-130H Hercules and C-130J Super Hercules from several active duty, reserve and air guard bases took off from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, in support of the U.S. Air Force Weapons School Joint Forcible Entry 17B, Dec. 9. The JFE 17B is a USAFWS large-scale airdrop and land mobility mission at Nellis AFB, Nev., in which students from the

6 Oct 2016

Lawyer finds path to service in Air Force Reserve

Rumbling tanks, riot police, tear-gas grenades and hungry citizens standing in lines for bread and meat rations.  These could be scenes from many war movies or deployments, but they are not. These are Capt. Tomasz Nowak’s memories from his childhood in Communist Poland in the early 1980s.Nowak, who is an Individual Mobilization Augmentee Judge