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  • AFMAO chaplain encourages preparation, resiliency in weathering storms

    Get your life in order, putting into place the kinds of resources that will help carry you through difficult and emotionally trying times. That's the advice of Chaplain David Sparks, senior port mortuary chaplain at the Air Force Mortuary Operations Center at Dover Air Force Base, Del. He said

  • Specialist helps provide dignity, honor to fallen servicemembers

    Like other servicemembers deployed to the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center, one staff sergeant here is taking full advantage of her opportunity to provide dignity, honor and respect to fallen warriors and their families. Staff Sgt. Candice Foxe is on a four-month deployment as a dress

  • Former Marine now honors fallen service members

    When Carl Groh was a young Marine infantryman serving outside Da Nang, South Vietnam, he saw many of his brother Marines killed in action but never had the chance to escort the fallen warriors home.Today, more than 40 years later, Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Carl Groh has come full circle. As a chaplain for

  • Host wing lends support to mortuary mission

    Dover Air Force Base Airmen are prepared to support the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center at any given moment.Some of the squadrons supporting the AFMAO mission share their insight about the job and why they are proud to make their solemn contribution.Forensic DentistryThe 436th Dental

  • USO supports AFMAO mission

    When your job involves performing dignified transfers of fallen warriors at all hours of the day or night, or preparing those warriors for the trip to their final resting place, any kind of respite is welcomed. Here, the Delaware chapter of the United Service Organizations provides some of that

  • Chief of staff dedicates Center for Families of the Fallen

    The Air Force chief of staff dedicated the new Center for Families of the Fallen at the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center here Jan. 6."For many of us, this dedication is a bittersweet event," said Gen. Norton Schwartz, the Air Force chief of staff. "This center is emblematic of our

  • New facility fulfills needs for families of the fallen

    The Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center has been providing dignity, honor and respect for fallen warriors, and care, service and support for their families since the unit was activated on Jan. 6, 2009. So it was only appropriate that a new facility that will carry that family support even

  • AFMAO deployers are tops in reserve command

    Two services specialists deployed here from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., were recently named best in the Air Force Reserve.Senior Master Sgt. Mary Mullen is the Services Senior Noncommissioned Officer of the Year and Senior Airman Nicole Pennington is the Services Airman of the Year for Air Force

  • Beale personnel helping fallen, families

    For most Air Force members, a deployment usually means time spent in Iraq, Afghanistan or other far-flung regions of the world.But for three Air Force Reservists from Beale Air Force Base, Calif., a deployment within the U.S. has offered a chance to contribute in ways most people would never even

  • Chaplains’ ministries include fallen and those who honor them

    For two Air National Guard chaplains, their deployment to the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center hits close to home.Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Lance Jennings' son served with the Air National Guard in Kirkuk, Iraq, in 2002, while Chaplain (Maj.) Richard Bach's son is currently an Army forward