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  • 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

  • Virtual reality updates obsolete A-10 trainer

    In just six months, Sheppard Air Force Base and Southwest Research Institute, transformed an obsolete legacy trainer into a state-of-the-art system by using virtual reality. The Generalized Operations Simulation Environment program allows weapons chiefs and crew chiefs from the 362nd and 363rd

  • CE members help build base on mountain top

    Gunfire, austere conditions, enemy threats and far away from home. "This forward operating base would be built in the worst terrain that the country of Afghanistan had to offer, sitting on top of a mountain surrounded by mountains," said Master Sgt. Randall Kinser, 56th Civil Engineer Squadron,

  • Mobile device has ID checks in hand

    For the past week, some people entering Vance Air Force Base have been part of a test. Those entering the base had to pass the test, but the test is actually more about the tester. Since May 25, Computer Science Corporation entry controllers have been field testing the Mobilisa. The Mobilisa is a