11 Jul 2006

View from the Top: The first year

Recently, I celebrated my first anniversary as a member of the Air Education and Training Command team. During this time, we've faced a number of challenges and achieved tremendous success fulfilling our mission to develop America's Airmen today for tomorrow. Shortly after I arrived, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated Keesler and a large

11 Jul 2006

32 years later, medic and birth mom reunite

Almost a year after she first contacted her birth mother, Staff Sgt. Katherine Blade reunited with her. The medical laboratory craftsman with the 81st Medical Support Squadron Clinical Laboratory Flight used e-mails, letters and documents she accumulated to locate her mother, Marsha Gibson, in Centralia, Wash., about 90 minutes south of Seattle.

11 Jul 2006

ILO Training prepares Airmen to serve in combat operations

Today, more than 800 Airmen are attending Army ground combat skills training at several Army installations, preparing them for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom deployments. The Airmen require the training because they will be assigned duties outside their normal Air Force Specialties. In the near-term, these numbers are