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BOLLING AIR FORCE BASE, D.C., April 21, 2010 – Few would dispute that children sometimes don’t listen. But military parents have a new friend to help, and he’s traveled all the way from Sesame Street. Sesame Street characters perform April 21, 2010, at Bolling Air Force Base, D.C., in an outreach program sponsored by Sesame Workshop and the USO that focuses on talking, listening and connecting for military parents and their children. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Raymond Mills  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, partnered with USO to deliver...

A technology center at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington will be named today in honor of actor Jimmy Stewart, according to an Air Force news release. -snip- The center will be dedicated as the Brig. Gen. James Stewart Theater in honor of the actor's service and his efforts "to promote Air Force heritage and morale programs to benefit future generations of Airmen," the release said.

/16/2006 - BOLLING AIR FORCE BASE, Washington D.C. (AFPN) -- Ninety Air Force and civilian volunteers from Bolling and the Pentagon visited the Department of Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System Medical Center in Baltimore and the Baltimore VA Rehabilitation Center Feb. 14 as part of National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans Week. Before the trip, members of the First Sergeants Council “shared their love” by sending the volunteers with snacks and drinks for the trip to Baltimore. The volunteers spent time talking with the veterans on the hospital wards, as well as in the pharmacy, the out-patient clinic and the...

WASHINGTON -- Anthrax has been confirmed in samples collected from the two Pentagon mail facilities that were at first closed last week and then declared free of the pathogen, United Press International has learned. The head of the company that was accused of contaminating the samples sent from those facilities -- a detached building on the Pentagon grounds in Arlington, Va., and the other in Falls Church, Va. -- said the presence of anthrax was detected independently by two government laboratories. Robert B. Harris, president and chief executive officer of Commonwealth Biotechnologies Inc. in Richmond, Va., also said the anthrax...

[World News]: By March 18 : An anthrax sensor -- the third in the Washington, D.C. area this week -- went off Friday afternoon in a remote mail-handling facility of the Defense Intelligence Agency located at Bolling Air Force Base southeast of the U.S. Capitol. "This morning the DIA remote delivery facility was closed due to an initial positive test of incoming mail for hazardous biological agents," Defense Department spokesman Major Paul Swiergosz told United Press International.Personnel on the scene were asked to stay, Swiergosz said, and local officials were called. Friday's alarm follows two similar alerts, one at a...

Students Welcome Back Their 'Baghdad Buddy' By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USAAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2003 – Fourth-grade students Allison Foster and Rebeca Reyes, both 9, said they were sad to see the military go off to war in Iraq. Reyes said she really didn't know much about the war, other than what her mother told her: "that my grandpapa was in the last one." Air Force Maj. Mike Lundy, chief of public health at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., and school student council adviser Margaret Panik pose with "Baghdad Buddies" and other...