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  • RSUs serve as safety net for air traffic

    U.S. and international Airmen comprise the team and are tasked to provide supervision for local undergraduate flying training, instructor pilot flying operations, touch and goes, and multiple landings during student training and solo student operations.

  • Laughlin and Vance unite training forces

    Team XL pilots joined forces with a fellow Air Education Training Command base to help ease their instructor pilot shortfalls. The 71st Flying Training Wing at Vance Air Force Base, Okla., took on a greater student load in 2017 as a possible solution to the ongoing pilot shortage the Air Force is

  • Revamped course takes learning hydraulics to new level

    Instructors in the 364th Training Squadron’s aircraft hydraulics systems course came to that conclusion about four years ago when they realized that they were teaching Airmen in Training the same materials and using the same training systems they had learned on years ago, which has led to a revamped

  • Air University presents new civilian award

    Maj. Gen. Michael Rothstein, Air University vice commander and acting commander, presented Dr. Angelle Khachadoorian with the Award for Exemplary Civilian Service, Nov. 1, 2017. This award is presented to an individual or group to recognize them for outstanding service supporting a command mission

  • AETC welcomes new commander

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, TEXAS--Members of Air Education and Training Command gathered as the guidon was passed from Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson to Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast, signifying the formal transfer of authority and responsibility from one commander to another in a ceremony at Joint Base San

  • AU-ABC program expands enlisted education opportunities

    Airmen join the Air Force for a variety of reasons, but perhaps the most common is for the service’s vast educational opportunities. The Air University-Associate-to-Baccalaureate Cooperative program, or AU-ABC, is perhaps a little-known opportunity that can reap big rewards.The AU-ABC was created

  • Behind the stars: An interview with the AETC commander

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, TEXAS-- Members of Air Education and Training Command are prepared to bid farewell to Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson, who for the last two and a half years, has served as their commander. Roberson, who has spent 34 years selflessly dedicating himself to the United States

  • Fueled: Hurdles ignite Airman’s path

    "My grandma was in charge of drug and weapon distribution from the east coast down to the Caribbean," said Tech. Sgt. Claudio Collazo Jr, 59th Medical Operations Squadron healthcare manager. "Many of my father's friends boasted about my future in that same kind of life which eventually spearheaded

  • Introducing the new Wilford Hall Eye Center

    The 59th Medical Wing’s departments of ophthalmology, optometry, and the Joint Warfighter Refractive Surgery Center are now aligned under one umbrella for the first time, the Wilford Hall Eye Center.The center is located within the Department of Defense’s largest outpatient clinic and surgical