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  • Purple Heart recipient shares story with 37 TRG

    Members of the 37th Training Group had a chance to meet a hero June 6 when Purple Heart recipient Staff Sgt. Matthew Slaydon and his wife Annette took time from therapy and rehabilitation to talk with students from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Indoctrination Course and the Security Forces

  • Future Airmen show Air Force excitement at NASCAR race

    Gen. Bruce Carlson, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, conducted two Delayed Enlistment Program oaths of enlistment ceremonies, prior to the start of the Pocono 500 race in Long Pond Penn. The general swore in the first group, consisting of 40 young men and women from the 318th Recruiting

  • Severe winds damage Altus Air Force Base

    Altus Air Force Base and the city of Altus were struck by sustained winds of 40 mph and gusts clocked at 87 mph by the National Weather Service during a storm Thursday night. Unconfirmed reports of funnel clouds were reported to local emergency operations centers. The winds knocked out the

  • Pilot's legacy continues with posthumous master's degree

    Commencement ceremonies are normally a time to celebrate student achievements. However, on June 6 at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Sheppard Air Force Base campus, it was also a time to honor the legacy of a fallen classmate. Maj. Brad Funk, an instructor pilot who was killed in a T-38 crash

  • 36th Rescue Flight locates missing woman

    The 36th Rescue Flight completed its 623rd rescue June 3, when a rescue crew located a missing woman on a high ridgeline three miles from her home. The 44-year-old woman was lost 10 miles southeast of Ellensburg, Wash. The five member aircrew left Fairchild at 8 a.m. June 3 to look for the

  • T-6A Texan II lands short of the runway at Vance

    An Air Force T-6A Texan II assigned to the 71st Flying Training Wing was damaged upon landing at approximately 10:20 a.m. near the inside runway here. One instructor pilot and one student on board exited from the aircraft without injuries. Vance emergency response personnel were on scene immediately

  • Boneheads reunite, celebrate strong warrior heritage

    Sepia-toned photographs of war heroes cover the walls of Tyndall's 95th Fighter Squadron. Relics of fighter aviation history are cased in glass displays, and in a dimly lit room called "The Crypt," an eclectic collection of fighter pilot memorabilia can be found. More than 35 students and instructor

  • Enlisted members give highest honor to AETC commander

    The commander of Air Education and Training Command received the highest honor the Air Force enlisted corps can bestow at a formal ceremony in San Antonio May 30. Gen. William R. Looney III was formally presented the Order of the Sword on behalf of the men and women of AETC by the Air Force's top

  • Air Force Recruiting Service welcomes new commander

    Brig. Gen. Alfred J. Stewart assumed command of Air Force Recruiting Service during a ceremony here June 2. General Stewart succeeds Brig. Gen. Suzanne M. Vautrinot, who moves on to become the deputy commander of the Joint Functional Component Command - Network Warfare, U.S. Strategic Command, at

  • Changing with the times: the new 47th ISS(P)

    Recently the 47th Civil Engineer Squadron merged with the 47th Communications Squadron at Laughlin Air Force Base to form the 47th Installation Support Squadron (Provisional), the first unit of its kind in the Air Force. "Change seems to be one of the true constants in our Air Force," said Col.