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  • AETC invites Sheppard Airmen to volunteer as MTI

    The Air Force is currently searching for fresh faces to join the military training instructor corps. As part of this search, Air Education and Training Command sent MTIs from base to base to explain their role and recruit young noncomissioned officers and senior airmen to join them as MTIs. Tech.

  • BMT construction project begins this fall

    Change is coming to the Lackland skyline this fall. What will be the largest military construction program in the Air Force begins next month when work starts on the first of 13 new basic military training facilities. With a price tag of nearly $900 million, the eight airmen training complexes and

  • Local community shows support with 5th Annual Dove Hunt

    Members of Team Sheppard and the local community met Sept. 5 for the 5th Annual Clay County Dove Salute to the Military in Henrietta, Texas. More than 170 Sheppard Airmen attended the hunt. "It is our way to say thank you to the military," said Deborah Clark, one of the event's hosts. "Since we

  • Airman awarded Bronze Star

    Gen. Stephen R. Lorenz, Air Education and Training Command commander, presented a Bronze Star medal to Master Sgt. Shawn Williams at Fort Hood, Texas, Aug. 31. According to his citation, Sergeant Williams, 3rd Brigade Combat Team senior joint terminal attack controller, received the Bronze Star for

  • Altus wins $1 million in AETC competition

    The 97th Air Mobility Wing placed second in the Air Education and Training Command Energy Incentive competition Aug. 25. The wing received $1 million for its energy conservation effort, which will be spent on high priority quality of life initiatives on base. Vance Air Force Base, Okla., won $1.5

  • Aircraft maintenance facility dedicated to Tuskegee Airman

    Team Keesler celebrated the life and time of retired Col. Lawrence Roberts Aug. 28 with a ceremony dedicating the 403rd Wing's consolidated aircraft maintenance facility in his honor. The new $22.6 million structure is used to perform maintenance on equipment for aircraft assigned to the 53rd

  • Sheppard inducts newest NCOs

    Sheppard inducted 55 senior airmen to the noncommissioned officer ranks in a ceremony Aug. 28 at the base theater. Senior Airman Rodrigo Trevino, 82nd Civil Engineering Squadron, said he is ready to answer the call. "It's a challenge getting the promotion but it is also very exciting. It is a great

  • JAG corps accepting applications to FLEP, ELP

    Applications for the Funded Legal Education Program and Excess Leave Program are being accepted from Jan. 1 through March 1. The FLEP, a paid legal studies program, and the ELP, an unpaid legal studies program, is for active-duty Air Force commissioned officers. The FLEP is an assignment action, and

  • Laughlin Airman trains Iraqi pilots

    For most Americans, the day-to-day life of working, spending time with their families and taking full advantage of their freedoms, like voicing their opinions or practicing their religion is routine, simple and most of all, safe. For others, like certain members of America's military, they are away

  • Airmen protect space assets in new Air Force commercial

    An Air Force commercial highlighting the role men and women in the Air Force's Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., play in protecting satellite and other space assets began airing Aug. 31 in television markets and select movie theaters across the country. "Space