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  • Aircrew Flight Equipment units strengthened by merge

    There are many safety precautions in place for pilots who fly for the United States Air Force, their equipment must be inspected and double checked regularly to ensure maximum safety. For the Airmen in charge of this gear, continuity between team members is key. There has to be a clear system in

  • Changes at HQ AETC focus on force development efforts

    This reorganization allows the Headquarters AETC staff to focus on broader force-development responsibilities, ensuring policy and strategy are aligned within the command and across the entire Air Force developmental enterprise.

  • US Air Force Academy advertises new enlisted academic instructor positions

    For the first time in Air Force Academy history, enlisted Airmen will be deliberately hired for faculty teaching positions. The Air Force Personnel Center began announcing Jan. 23 the need for senior noncommissioned officers to fill enlisted academic instructor positions at the school. While

  • Evolution of an intelligence course

    Adaptability is the key to air power. Most people serving in the Air Force have heard this phrase. But what does it mean? How do you adapt something that works? Capt. Ric Rebulanan, 17th Training Wing chief of international training, is adapting by updating the 313th Training Squadron’s

  • C-17 Globemaster III: An aircraft as versatile as AE crews

    Larger, faster and flexible – a flying ICU. Since joining the U.S. Air Force fleet in 1993, the C-17 Globemaster III has significantly expanded aeromedical evacuation capabilities.In addition to its transport and other numerous mission sets, the C-17 converts to provide aeromedical evacuation to

  • Weapon grade vision from laser precision

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas—Surgeons at Wilford Hall’s Joint Warfighter Refractive Surgery Center performed the center’s 50,000th refractive surgery Jan. 15, 2019.Former Air Force Surgeon General, Lt. Gen. Paul K. Carlton, established the USAF Warfighter Refractive Surgery Program in 1995

  • Melting pot of the medical group

    White coats, stethoscopes, nurses and doctors are a few of the most identifiable symbols and careers in the medical community. While these are prevalent in every hospital and medical clinic in the Air Force, there is a subset of equally hard-working medical professionals that are often