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  • Seasonal & H1N1 Vaccines: Who needs and Why?

    This year it's very important to get vaccinated against circulating flu viruses ... and yes - there is more than ONE. In fact there are several. The seasonal flu vaccine is a trivalent vaccine with three different strains of viruses which circulate each year causing flu illness in humans. This year

  • March participates in statewide earthquake exercise

    March recently participated in the Great California ShakeOut, a statewide earthquake exercise designed to help prepare Californians for a large-scale earthquake. There is a 99.7% chance that California will suffer a 6.7 magnitude earthquake or higher within the next 30 years. Public service

  • Rideshare week sees record participation

    Team March carpoolers and vanpoolers gathered Tuesday with March ARB Rideshare Coordinator Paul Pitman to collect their travel mugs, a thank you gift for participating in California's Rideshare Week 2009, which ran October 5 through 9. More than 160 Team Mach members participated in the event,

  • MARCH IN REVIEW: Amelia Earhart at March

    Amelia Earhart was a regular visitor during Brig. Gen. Henry "Hap" Arnold's tenure as the commander of March Field. Arnold was a master of publicity and sought to take advantage of the American love affair with aviation that followed Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic in

  • National AFA Award Winners

    452nd Air Mobility Wing Commander Brig. Gen. James L. Melin and representatives from the 336th Air Refueling Squadron accept the Air Force Association (AFA) Air Force Reserve Unit Award Sept. 16 at the AFA's 2009 Air and Space Conference and Technology Exhibition in National Harbor, Md. The award is

  • H1N1 vaccine frequently asked questions

    Since flu shots are high on everyone's windscreens, here are some answers to common H1N1 flu vaccine questions. Does the 2009 H1N1 flu vaccine have a preservative in it? Multi-dose vials of flu vaccine contain the preservative thimerosal to prevent bacterial growth. However, because some people are

  • March reservist leads breast cancer walk at Kirkuk

    KIRKUK REGIONAL AIR BASE, Iraq - According to the American Cancer Society Web site, one in eight women are at risk of developing breast cancer while an estimated 192,000 will be diagnosed by the end of 2009. For Master Sgt. Loretta Patino, 506th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron, air

  • March C-17 teams with FEMA for tsunami relief

    With the help of fellow aircrew and FEMA members, Tech. Sgt Mike Carrier (far left) off-loads wood planks from the back of a 729th Airlift Squadron C-17 at Hickam AFB in Hawaii.  (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Daniel Nathaniel III)

  • Soldiers from 304th SB return from Iraq

    Sixty-eight Soldiers from the Army Reserve's 304th Sustainment Brigade returned from a one-year tour in Iraq on Sept. 27. Friends, family members, fellow Soldiers, and community members greeted the returning warriors in front of the Riverside Convention Center. "I promised to bring them all home,