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  • Free Professional Airmen’s Conference coming to San Antonio

    The Air Force Sergeants Association Professional Airmen’s Conference will be held at the Grand Hyatt-San Antonio, Aug. 22-26, 2015, in San Antonio, Texas.The conference is free to military and Department of Defense civilians and is scheduled to feature senior leadership perspective speakers to include Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh and

  • SOS invites former faculty to help celebrate 65th anniversary

    All former Air Force Squadron Office College faculty, known as Red Pant Faculty, are invited to help the school celebrate its 65th anniversary Oct. 22-24, 2015."We have numerous events planned over a three-day celebration that not only reflect on the school's heritage, but also provides attendees with knowledge on where the college is heading,"
  • Brian Buss, 97th Training Squadron boom operator instructor, and U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Mary Claire Bolo, 203rd Air Refueling Squadron boom operator student, Hawaii Air National Guard, conduct a pre-briefing before stepping inside a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft Boom Operator Weapons System Trainer at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma, July 30, 2015. The briefing prepares students for what they may encounter during the training simulation and allows them to ask any last minute questions before being evaluated. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Dillon Davis)

    BOWST preps students for refueling mission

    Altus Air Force Base is home to one of the most advanced systems used to train future U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft boom operators. The Boom Operator Weapons System Trainer is a simulator used by boom operator students here at Altus AFB to provide hands-on training before they even leave the ground. The simulated training
  • Col. James Fisher, 14th Flying Training Wing Vice Commander, pauses in the cockpit of the new Spatial Disorientation simulator with Maj. Michael Fleming, 14th Medical Group Aerospace and Operational Physiology Flight Commander, and Tech. Sgt. Benjamin Hoffman, AOP Flight Chief, in the AOP simulator training room Aug. 5 on Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. Fisher visited AOP to experience first-hand the new Spatial Disorientation trainer in action. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class John Day)

    Columbus upgrades 100-year-old technology

    Spatial Disorientation, the inability to determine ones position in an open space, can be a cause of aircraft accidents.This is caused when the body's internal gyros do not match up with aircraft instrument readings and what the pilot expects to see. SD occurs because current SD trainer technology is not of a high enough quality.With the
  • Maj. Christina Hopper conducts a comprehensive check of her T-38 Talon on the flightline at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, July 20. (U.S. Air Force photo by David Poe)

    Fighter Pilot: Hopper to bring resolve to Aug. 8 triathlon

    Three weeks before Maj. Christina Hopper's first half-Ironman race, she came down with bronchitis. She carried the sticky, coughing weight with her as she continued training, hoping that she'd kick it before race day. In a doctor's office on the Tuesday before the race, as her still-inflamed lungs heaved during an exam, her doctor said "you
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