• DIRT helps train multi-capable Airmen to deploy

    HILL AIR FORCE BASE – Hill’s 729th Air Control Squadron offers Deployment Initial Readiness Training, also known as DIRT school, designed to provide students with basic-level knowledge in a multitude of deployment and expeditionary skillsets.The 10-day course is conducted on Hill AFB, primarily in

  • Hill Airman surprised with STEP promotion

    Tech. Sgt. Terry Smith, 775th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal, received a surprise visit earlier this week from Col. Jenise Carroll, 75th Air Base Wing commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Raymond Riley, 75th ABW Command Chief, with news of his selection for a STEP promotion.

  • Young cancer patient fulfills dream as ‘Airman for a Day’

    Teenage warrior Michelle McConnell has battled bone cancer and amputation with a strength and tenacity that left no doubt among her family or the U.S. Air Force that she was tough enough to become a combat-trained “Airman for a Day.”

  • Second Purple Heart

    Master Sgt. Joseph Upton, explosive ordnance disposal technician, received his second Purple Heart June 21 for injuries sustained while deployed to Afghanistan in 2013.