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  • White House honors Sheppard recycling program

    The 82nd Civil Engineering Squadron, Sheppard AFB, Texas, recently won the 2009 White House Closing the Circle Award in the Recycling, military category. The national-level award recognizes outstanding achievements of federal employees and their facilities for efforts that have made a significant

  • AFPET test synthetic fuels at Sheppard

    The Air Force Petroleum Agency recently conducted field testing for its 50/50 blend of JP-8 and synthetic jet fuel at the 364th Training Squadron fuels training complex on Sheppard AFB. The Air Force is currently in the certification process for the new blend in step with the Department of Defense's

  • AETC officials urge preventative measures in face of swine flu

    Air Education and Training Command leaders urged service members and their families to help prevent the spread of swine flu, as health officials announced new confirmed cases of the disease in the United States today. The first human cases of swine flu in the United States were diagnosed in

  • AETC officials announce 2009 best antiterrorism programs

    Air Education and Training Command officials recently announced the 2009 antiterrorism program award winners. The winners now move up to the next level of competition. Antiterrorism program-fixed unit 12th Flying Training Wing, Randolph AFB, Texas Antiterrorism program manager Matthew T. Barido,

  • Student conducts last T-37 simulator mission

    No one wants to be last in anything they do, especially when it comes to the highly-competitive Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program, the world's only multi-nationally run undergraduate pilot training organization. But 2nd Lt. Evan Negron, a 25-year-old Salem, N.J., native, said he didn't mind

  • PHOTO: AETC briefs industry, service leaders

    Maj. Gen. Erwin F. Lessel briefs industry and military leaders during a presentation at the 2008 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education (I/ITSEC) Conference, held in Orlando, Fla., Dec. 1-4.I/ITSEC 2008 brought together more than 2,000 attendees from the Department of Defense,

  • Airmen selected for DOD physician assistant school

    "I'm so frustrated that I think all three of you need to go back to school and learn this," said Brig. Gen. O.G. Mannon, 82nd Training Wing commander, as he handed three Airmen their new textbooks for the Physician Assistant Training program. Staff Sgt. Jared Files, 383rd Training Squadron, Staff

  • Maxwell medics plan joint exercise in Dominican Republic

    Medics treated 760 patients at a primary school in Hostos, Dominican Republic April 22 on the inaugural day of the largest Maxwell Air Force Base-planned U.S. Air Force Medical Readiness Exercise to date. A group of 45 medics, translators, security and support personnel derived from the U.S. Air

  • Tyndall Airmen slim down, prove fit to fight

    The culmination of the Beat the Boss and the Biggest Loser competitions came April 17 at Tyndall AFB, Fla. The purpose of each event was to motivate Airmen through further incentives to strive for excellent scores on physical training testing, and to see which contestants could lose the most weight.