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  • AETC releases 2018 Strategic Plan

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas – Air Education and Training Command officials released the command’s 2018 Strategic Plan today, designed to advance the First Command’s vision to “Inspire and Develop MACH-21 Airmen.”The plan focuses on developing AETC into an organization that encourages

  • Air Force to institute new method to protect PII

    Air Force officials announced Feb. 6, 2018, emails containing personally identifiable information, and similar numeric constructs, will be blocked from transmission unless the email is encrypted. For members unable to send or receive encrypted emails, members will be directed to utilize the AMRDEC

  • 8-year POW recalls return home 45 years later

    Stepping off the bus, recently freed American prisoners of war formed up from the tallest to shortest, stiff at attention facing Capt. Carlyle “Smitty” Harris and with a salute they defied their Vietnamese captors one final time.

  • Flight Leaders Course continues to improve after two successful classes

    Having graduated their second class in November, 42nd Force Support Squadrons Flight Leaders Course administrators continue to prove successful in preparing their students for squadron-level leadership roles. The strength of this course is diversity, said Master Sgt. Donnovan Bowman, 42nd FSS career

  • Pilot battles brain cancer, recovery with faith

    Walking into his backyard after an Easter egg hunt Capt. Hunter Barnhill’s hand formed a fist, holding itself with incredible and uncontrollable strength, he attempted to spread his fingers, but instead consciously fell to the ground before his friends and his own 2-year-old son, Nolan, looked onto

  • 19th Air Force Commander directs T-6 operational pause

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas – The 19th Air Force commander has issued an operational pause for all T-6 Texan II operations to ensure aircrew safety after a cluster of unexplained physiological events occurred at Columbus AFB, Mississippi, Vance AFB, Oklahoma, and Sheppard AFB, Texas

  • Airmen gauge fear of heights in virtual simulation

    Electrical systems apprentice course Airmen in Training at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, donned a virtual reality headset Jan. 26, 2017, to test their limits with simulation that gauges their ability to work in high places.

  • Airmen gauge fear of heights in virtual simulation

    Electrical systems apprentice course Airmen in Training at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, donned a virtual reality headset Jan. 26, 2017, to test their limits with simulation that gauges their ability to work in high places.