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  • Repaving, expansion projects underway at March "fam camp"

    With 20 of its 30 motor home spaces vacant, March's family camp is looking a little sparse. But the vacancies aren't due to a lack of demand. Rather, the opposite is true. Construction is began earlier this month on a project that will expand and improve the already popular Southern California

  • Wing commander encourages participation in Rideshare Week

    Each morning at March, 25 white passenger vans make the pilgrimage through the base's front gate from cities throughout Southern California. At the end of the workday, the parked vans come alive, dominating the quiet streets as they circle the base, providing front-door pick up service for their

  • Nearly 100 runners represent March at Air Force Marathon

    A C-17 Globemaster III departed from March on Sept. 16 carrying 97 members of the base's marathon team. The March runners were traveling to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, to participate in the annual Air Force Marathon races. The 2011 March team, more than twice the size of last year's,

  • Reservists make history, again, in Mongolia

    There was no beeping noise as the pickup truck backed up to the large cargo jet; it was just a Mongolian driver and a U.S. Air Force Reserve loadmaster using hand signals to communicate.Delta II rocket debris had fallen out of space in August of last year and crash landed in Mongolia. The mission

  • March Airmen dedicated to Space-A improvements

    Free flights to almost anywhere in the world military aircraft fly is a major perk of being a service member or retiring from the military. For residents in the greater Los Angeles and Riverside areas, the closest access point to this perk is through March Air Reserve Base.But the "Reserve" in March

  • Giving the Blackbird a home indoors

    Volunteers from the 452nd Air Mobility Wing, 163rd Reconnaissance Wing and local community helped move a March Field Air Museum SR-71A Blackbird inside the museum's hangar, July 8. The Blackbird accumulated 82 sortie marks and logged 2,854 flight hours, 743 of which were more than Mach 3.

  • An Afghan solution to an Afghan problem

    Poor. These refugees were literally dirt-floor poor. Their living rooms were outside and shaded by sheets and canvas. They laid out carpets and blankets to keep down the dust.They built their homes themselves out of mud and hay, using fabric, wood and metal scraps for roofs. All of this is mild

  • March reservist will attempt third Air Force Marathon 10K win

    Some people only dream of running a 5-minute mile pace for the duration of the Fit-to-Fight mile and a half run. Then, there are those who can run at a consistent 5-minute mile pace for six miles in a row. The Air Force Marathon 10K (6.2 miles) has long distance runners who do exactly that. One of