Base summer league basketball games continue

Mountain Home BX poised to decrease theft in 2009

Despite high-tech surveillance systems, cameras and an aggressive youth shoplifting awareness campaign, theft at base exchange facilities rose 86 percent, from 22 incidents in 2007 to 41 in 2008. As a result, the cost of merchandise involved in shoplifting at the Mountain Home Exchange last year

Cell phone restriction still applies on Mountain Home AFB

Although the state of Idaho doesn't currently have a cell phone ban, use of cell phones, including texting while driving, on Mountain Home Air Force Base, as well as all other military installations, is limited to hands free only.Cell phone use while driving on any Air Force installation without a

Giant voice system to be tested

Beginning Aug. 3, the base giant voice system will undergo tests and upgrades conducted by an Air Combat Command team and command post personnel.Testing will occur between the hours of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 3 through 7."The purpose of the giant voice system is to allow command post controllers to

Base continues to monitor pesticides, asbestos

In early July, Col. John Bird, 366th Fighter Wing commander, signed an agreement called a Consent Order with the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The Consent Order provides a framework to address issues related to the pesticide chlordane used in base housing in the 1950s, 60s and 70s

Weapons load crews vie for victory

Chiefs group hosts steak burn