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  • Steering Committee has eyes on future of program

    The spring Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program's Steering Committee completed its weeklong discussions April 4 regarding the future of the program, including its syllabus, budget and infrastructure. The committee also said goodbye to six-year chairman Air Commodore Peter Berlijn of the Royal

  • Potential Olympians to compete at CISM tournament here

    Some of the world's best military basketball players are converging on Lackland Air Force Base for the Council of International Military Sports Basketball Tournament Monday through April 22. This is the second time Lackland has hosted one of CISM's sporting events. In 1998, Lackland hosted the

  • Special tactics recruiting takes flight

    The Air Force's ongoing need to fill critically manned special tactics positions -- particularly combat controllers and pararescuemen -- has brought about a unique initiative between Air Force Recruiting Service and Air Force Special Operations Command. A recent agreement between AFRS and the 720th

  • AETC 'Outstanding Airman' nominees get unexpected bonus

    Two nominees for AETC's "Outstanding Airmen" honors got an extra surprise Friday: tickets to the hottest sports event in the country.  Master Sgt. Ramon Conde and Senior Airman Melissa Meredith were each the lucky recipients of a pair of tickets to the NCAA semi-finals and finals,

  • Miami-based recruiter saves life of shooting victim

    A recruiter's former life as an Air Force "cop" helped him save the life of a Miami shooting victim recently. Staff Sgt. Jason Procaccino, a Miami-based recruiter with the 333rd Recruiting Squadron and former security forces member, was in South Beach visiting his brother who was in town for spring

  • Tweet complete: T-37 retires after 39 years of service

    After 39 years of service as the gateway to the sky for more than 10,000 Columbus AFB-based Air Force aviators, the T-37B Tweet formally retired Thursday from Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training. Columbus AFB was the last SUPT base flying the T-37. Vance AFB, Okla., and Laughlin AFB, Texas,

  • Freedom Flyers: Will to survive motivated Air Force pilots

    Every year a group of Airmen united by a shared experience of survival against all odds returns to Randolph Air Force Base in the early spring to celebrate the triumph of the human spirit. They're known as the Freedom Flyers -- Air Force aviators who endured years of physical and mental torture in

  • Educators learn about Air Force opportunities up close

    Out of 100 contacts an Air Force recruiter makes, roughly one makes it to basic training. Of the more than 30.8 million Americans ages 17 to 27, only 27 percent of them would qualify for military service, primarily due to poor aptitude test scores, inability to meet physical standards, insufficient