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  • Sheppard and Altus team up to visit veterans

    Sheppard's Top-3 teamed up with their colleagues from Altus AFB, Okla. Aug. 20 to visit the Veteran's Center, a long-term nursing center in Lawton, Okla. "We have 22 Air Force veterans at the center who don't get to see Air Force people," said Master Sgt. Rich Coleman, Top-3 Veteran's Center

  • Airmen observe Ramadan

    Muslims from Sheppard AFB will join more than one billion Muslims in the world Aug. 22 in welcoming Ramadan. Ramadan is the ninth month on the Islamic calendar and requires many sacrifices. Ramadan challenges Muslims to give up certain things of value from just before dawn to after sunset every day

  • Holm Center inducts first ROTC 'Distinguished Alumni'

    The honor of being the first person inducted into the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps' Distinguished Graduates went to a former commander of Air Combat Command. Retired Gen. Ronald Keys, distinguished graduate of Kansas State University's ROTC program, was at Air University's Holm Center

  • Altus A-Team employee excels

    One Altus mechanic set a new benchmark of success by becoming a maintenance leader for the 97th Maintenance Directorate, or A-Team. Ramiro Solis, an A-Team civilian was recently promoted to work leader of the KC-135R Inspection Branch. Mr. Solis is the first graduate of the Grow Your Own Mechanic

  • President visits Phoenix; meets Luke AFB Airmen

    It is a rare honor to come face-to-face with the Commander in Chief of the United States of America, and some of the 51 Luke Airmen who attended the 110th Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention Aug. 17 had the chance to do just that. The base received an invitation from the VFW for 50 Airmen

  • Enlisted Sensor Operators take flight in AF's newest career field

    The U.S. Air Force boasts more than 130 enlisted career fields and on Aug. 17 it officially welcomed one more as the first class of 10 enlisted Unmanned Aircraft System sensor operators began their technical school here. Because of UAS capabilities, they have become exceedingly high demand aircraft

  • NASA to use Lackland as stopover

    Team Lackland will once again support the NASA Space Program by allowing the space shuttle to stopover here while on its trek home to Cape Canaveral at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Before Kelly Air Force Base closed in 2001, the airfield was the most frequent stop in a transport route as the