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Volume 63, Number 25 www.edwards.af.mil – www.facebook.com/edwardsairforcebase December 18, 2015

AFSA brings holiday cheer to veterans home

by Rebecca Amber
Staff writer

LANCASTER, Calif.—Air Force Sergeants Asso-
ciation Chapter 1328 and American Medical Response
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Air Force photograph by Rebecca Amber

Senior Airman Alexis Tripodi, 412th Force Support
Squadron, gives a holiday card to a resident at the William
J. Pete Knight Veteran’s Home in Lancaster, Calif.

AFMC to transition to Civilian Acquisition
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This is the last issue of Desert Wings for 2015.
The next issue will be Jan. 8, 2016.

The staff wishes all our readers a very
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!