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  • AU bachelor's degree program starts June 15

    Starting June 15, Airmen can apply their Community College of the Air Force credits toward a bachelor's degree from a variety of universities and colleges. This can be done through the Air Force Virtual Education Center which links a prospective student to the new Air University

  • Local Tuskegee Airmen honored

    It was more than 65 years ago that a valiant group of African-American men stood up for what was right and crossed the color barrier that kept them from U.S. military aviation. These gentlemen came to be known as the Tuskegee Airmen, named after the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama where they

  • FAIPs have more than job in common

    The first time they shared quarters, they didn't even acknowledge each other... but that would be typical for newborns. First Lts. Jessa and Christopher Charron are assigned to be T-6 first-assignment instructor pilots here, but that's not where their story begins and that's not all they have in

  • 373rd TRS NCO rescues sleeping man from hotel fire

    All it took was one annoying sound to make Staff Sergeant Bobby Jones a hero. The 373rd Training Squadron, Detachment 4 crew chief instructor was vacationing in Hot Springs, Ark., when he rescued a sleeping man from a fire recently. He was just getting ready for bed when he heard a faint beeping

  • Lackland's own one of first to be awarded AFCAM

    A Lackland AFB member is among the five recipients of the new Air Force Combat Action Medal who will be honored June 12 in Washington, D.C. Senior Master Sgt. Ramon Colon-Lopez is the commandant of the Pararescue and Combat Rescue Officer School, Detachment 1, 342nd Training Squadron. The AFCAM was

  • IAAFA to take on additional roles in '08

    The Inter-American Air Forces Academy, based at Lackland, has trained foreign military and police from Latin America in Spanish since its inception in 1943. Soon it will be offering similar technical courses to Caribbean countries, but in English. "We want to reach out now to our Caribbean friends