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  • 81st TRW students get their game on

    The Fishbowl inside the Levitow Training Support Facility, which includes a game room, is an area dedicated to providing students an area to enjoy and connect with one another during training amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Freedom’s price – the Purple Heart

    Aug. 7 is National Purple Heart Day. Created in 2014, it’s a time when all Americans are urged to recognize, remember and honor the nation’s service members and veterans who have been wounded or paid the ultimate price in defense of our liberties.

  • Development and Training flight gets new NCOIC

    Every service member goes to basic military training, but some enter the delayed entry program first and learn some of the key elements of military structure before they are shipped off. That’s where Staff Sgt. Alexis Wilson, the new development and training flight non-commissioned officer in charge

  • Laughlin XLer of week: Capt. Brian McGovern

    Capt. Brian McGovern, 47th Student Squadron transition flight commander, was chosen by wing leadership to be the “XLer of the Week”, the week of August 3, 2020, at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas. The “XLer” award, presented by Col. Craig Prather, 47th Flying Training Wing commander, and Chief Master

  • SUPT classes 20-20, 20-21 set to graduate at Laughlin

    Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 20-20 and 20-21 are set to graduate after 52 weeks of training at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 8, 2020. Laughlin is the home of the 47th Flying Training Wing, whose mission is to build combat-ready Airmen, leaders and pilots. (U.S. Air Force

  • Gen. Brown formally installed as 22nd Air Force Chief of Staff

    Proclaiming himself “proud, yet humbled,” Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr. was officially installed Aug. 6 as the Air Force’s 22nd Chief of Staff, becoming the first African American in history to lead a military service as its highest ranking officer.