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  • Homestead Air Reserve Base offers respite for Haiti earthquake victims

    Since the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti Jan. 12, Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., has turned into a staging point where Air Force Airmen are delivering earthquake victims to reunite with relatives and loved ones. The base, located approximately 25 miles southwest of Miami, has

  • American Red Cross aids military relief effort at Homestead

    The American Red Cross is providing support to thousands of evacuees from Haiti at a processing center here in support of Operation Unified Response, the U.S. military's Haitian relief effort. "We are providing for two sites here, one for evacuees and another for the air crews flying them in," said

  • Processing the evacuated

    As planes continue to leave Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., full of relief supplies bound for Haiti, a great number of planes return full of evacuees coming home to the United States. These people, many of them U.S. citizens or residents, must go through evacuation in-processing at Homestead

  • Reservist's load supplies for Haiti relief

    When the call went out for volunteers to help with the Haitian relief effort at Homestead Air Reserve Base; a handful of Reserve aerial port specialist raised their hands. Aerial Ports are responsible for all management and movement of cargo and passengers transported in the military airlift system.

  • Homestead helps launch thousands of pounds of relief aid to Haiti

    Disaster and devastation litter the news circuits, like the collapsed rubble that has crippled the impoverished nation of Haiti. Yet, in a time of insurmountable sadness and despair, stories of hope are flowering through the debris. One of the most quantifiable is the relief aid being distributed to

  • Help to Haiti

    Relief efforts are in full swing at Homestead Air Reserve Base in response to the disaster in Haiti. The flightline, usually home to the wing's complement of F-16 fighters, has been hosting more and more C-130 cargo planes along with the occasional C-17.Just as in war, this massive humanitarian

  • Parachute team to soar over Homestead

    The world famous U.S. Army parachute team, Golden Knights, will be traveling to Homestead Air Reserve Base for winter training Jan. 25 to March 5, 2010. The team has been traveling to Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz., since 1962, but will be returning to Florida this year, where the original team trained

  • Night of spoken words

    Members of the 482nd Mission Support Squadron Unit Advisory Council hosted a poetry reading at the Falcon's Nest Club, Jan. 9.Eleven poets, military and civilian, expressed their thoughts and feelings through different means of poetry. Life stories, religion, love, American pride and even a smelly

  • Stop-loss payments continue, but some no longer eligible

    The fiscal 2010 defense budget extends payments to servicemembers involuntarily extended on active duty under the so-called "Stop Loss" program, but those who received a bonus for voluntarily re-enlisting or extending their service no longer qualify for retroactive stop-loss pay. Defense Department