Health promotion makes healthy choices easier

Assessing an entire wing’s physical health and implementing evidence-based programs to influence healthy lifestyle change is a difficult task for one office. This is the unique challenge for Anna Ojczyk, the health promotion program coordinator for the 319th Reconnaissance Wing.

319th Medical Group Assumption of Command

Lodging divestiture, right-sizing underway to ensure future mission success

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas -- The Department of the Air Force is divesting lodging operations at nine installations and right-sizing facility capacity at others to meet a Defense Department requirement that all lodging is self-sustaining without taxpayer funding. In a 2020 memorandum,

4th Reconnaissance Squadron “Crows” return home from deployment

After spending over four months deployed to Yokota Air Base, Japan, the 4th Reconnaissance Squadron “Crows” and their RQ-4 Global Hawks have returned to home station at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.

319th Reconnaissance Wing’s Air Staff in development

Editor’s note: Portions of this article were written from the Air Combat Command Wing HQ Standardization Playbook, Oct. 2022.“Ready for crisis before crisis … Ready for combat before combat” -- that’s the mission statement for the U.S. Air Force’s Wing Air Staff model.The 319th Reconnaissance Wing

319th RW Griffin Challenge Games

North Spark develops security forces digital training tracker

The 319th Security Forces Squadron teamed up with the North Spark Defense Laboratory at Grand Forks Air Force Base to implement a new web-based training tracker that has been able to drastically reduce administrative task within the squadron.

319th CES fire department celebrates 100 years of fire prevention

The 319th Civil Engineer Squadron fire department observed Fire Prevention Week Oct. 9-15, 2022, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Fire Prevention Week to help educate more than 1,000 children and families within the local community.

GFAFB hosts ‘YETI,’ prepares for ND winter

It’s a common experience for airmen arriving for duty at Grand Forks Air Force Base to be welcomed with stories of winters past. But those stories alone are not enough to fully prepare airmen, especially those who have never lived in a winter climate, for what’s in store.

Base renames street, honors retired general

Leaders from the 319th Reconnaissance Wing held a renaming ceremony Sept. 12, 2022, formally changing the name of J Street to Jones Street here. The name was changed to honor retired Maj. Gen. David M. Jones, a former pilot and general officer who served with the U.S. Army Air Forces and later the