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  • Outside the wire: Reconstruction project shifts to lifesaving mission

    Staff Sgt. Jonathan Okeefe, 338th Training Squadron, Detachment 1 satellite, wideband and telemetry systems instructor at Fort Gordon, Ga., recently returned from a 12-month deployment to Afghanistan. Sergeant Okeefe, who has been in the Air Force almost six years, served as the chief communications

  • Hertog: Sheppard right on target

    The 82nd Training Wing's focus on delivering technically-skilled combat-ready Airmen is right on target, said Maj. Gen. Mary Kay Hertog, 2nd Air Force commander, during her visit here Oct. 5-7. General Hertog said because many Airmen could deploy within months of arriving at their first duty

  • Registration begins for 2010 AETC Symposium

    Registration begins Oct. 7, for the 2010 Air Education and Training Command Symposium, scheduled for Jan. 14-15, 2010, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio. The theme of this year's symposium is, "Developing America's Airmen Today ... For Tomorrow." The two-day symposium will

  • Sheppard gears up for 2009 Open House and Air Show

    The final touches to a much-anticipated event continue this week as Sheppard prepares for its Oct. 10-11 Open House and Air Show. Gates open at 9 a.m. both days. Lt. Col. Eric Jachimowicz, Sheppard Open House and Air Show deputy director, said it's a total force effort to prepare and ensure the

  • Eaker Center adds space education to professional continuing education

    Air University's Ira C. Eaker Center for Professional Development is now home to the Air Force Space Command professional continuing education center for excellence, the National Security Space Institute, as of Oct. 1. "It is logical for the NSSI to nest within the Eaker Center as it is responsible

  • Combat search, rescue highlighted in new commercial

    A commercial highlighting combat search and rescue Airmen began airing Oct. 5 in television markets and select movie theaters across the country. "CSAR" shows the teamwork involved to locate, communicate with and recover downed aircrews and isolated personnel. The commercial is the third in a

  • Sheppard launches Nuclear Accountability Course

    The Air Force took another important step in reinvigorating its nuclear enterprise here Oct. 5 with the launch of the Nuclear Accountability Course providing realistic, hands-on training to Airmen assuming duties making them responsible for nuclear weapons. Delivered by the 82nd Training Wing's

  • CSO unit stands up at NAS Pensacola

    The Air Force began the next evolution of combat systems officer training when it activated the 479th Flying Training Group Oct. 2 here. Col. Jacqueline Van Ovost, 12th Flying Training Wing commander, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, unfurled the unit flag and handed command to Col. Travis Willis

  • Sheppard first-aid training saves a life

    First-aid and automated external defibrillator training proved valuable at the base Repair Cycle Management Office here Sept. 22, when they saved a life. "She wouldn't have made it if we hadn't been able to react so quickly," said Valina Rolen, 80th Flying Training Wing former cardiopulmonary

  • Sheppard holds largest one-site blood drive

    Sheppard hosted an American Red Cross blood drive Sept. 22-24 with a goal to break a base record set in 2008, but wound up having the largest one-site blood drive event for the Red Cross in Texas for 2009. "We collected [more than] 950 units of blood during this blood drive, which was 127 percent of