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  • Creating a lifestyle of health and fitness

    Basic training and technical school keep Airman on the go, constantly moving and being active, with allocated times for physical fitness and meals. Food choices are also minimized by providing access to dining facilities. This helps Airman stay healthy and in top physical condition. However, habits

  • March Reservists helps Tops in Blue celebrate 60 years

    Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Collins, 4th Combat Camera Squadron, March Air Reserve Base, Calif., is celebrating Christmas this year, away from his family, with the Tops in Blue All Stars, touring overseas bases.As the Air Force's premier entertainment showcase, and one of the oldest and most widely traveled

  • Mixed Martial Arts toughens mind, body, spirit

    Taking punches to the head and body, and grappling with an opponent, doesn't sound like a conventional way of becoming a strong-willed, focused and self-disciplined person. But for Senior Airman David Adolfo, 452d Civil Engineer Squadron, it is a regular routine because he practices and competes in

  • Muncy to assume command of 452 Air Mobility Wing

    Col. Russell Muncy will assume command of the 452nd Air Mobility Wing at a 10 a.m. ceremony Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013, in the Cultural Resource Center on March Air Reserve Base, Calif.Muncy grew up in the small town of Hazard, Ky. and said it was a great and very safe place to grow up, but way back in

  • All in the 'spirit' of Halloween

    (This is the final in a four-part series on things that go bump in the night.)In an effort to entertain readers, I did some research, interviews and investigations to see what, if any, paranormal information I could find on base for the October issues of the Beacon.The pre-cursor to the series was a

  • He's a 'sensitive' ghost hunter

    (This is the third in a four-part series on things that go bump in the night.)Senior Airman Jose Mora, 452nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron, isn't just a ghost hunter. He is also known as sensitive in the psychic arena. His mother and sisters are sensitive also. He said that if something bad is going

  • Who ya gonna call?

    (This is the second in a four-part series on things that go bump in the night.)Senior Airman Mathieu Beaulieu is an active duty, aircraft mechanic assigned to the 912th Air Refueling Squadron at March Air Reserve Base, Calif. He is also a paranormal investigator. He has always been curious about the

  • Do you believe in ghosts?

    (This is the first in a four-part series on things that go bump in the night.)Movies with a paranormal theme are popular in the entertainment industry. But, how much of it is really true, or is any of it? Do you believe in spirits among us? Do you believe some people are sensitive or have a sixth

  • Giving the breath of life

    They called Iraq's Camp Anaconda "Mortaritaville." On April 10, 2004, Tech. Sgt. Matthew Blonde found out why.He and another medical technician were walking back to their tent after their shift ended at the hospital when a mortar whooshed overhead, flashing as it exploded into a tent a few hundred

  • March Minutes: Following March ARB personnel in 130-character micro-messages

    Ricardo AlvarezCutting hair at March since 1964Consolidated Barber Shop HOMETOWN McNary, Ariz.Tuesday, March 2, 2010 0703 Picking up breakfast and coffee at the Back Street Cafe. 0751 Sweeping the floor. Even though I swept it last night before I left, there is always more hair on the floor in the