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  • Application window opens for Air Force undergraduate flying training

    Application packages for the next Undergraduate Flying Training selection board are due to the Rated Officer Assignments branch of the Air Force Personnel Center by Nov. 17, 2017. The board, set for Jan. 22-25, 2018, will consider active-duty officer applicants to attend training as early as spring

  • Luke to resume local F-35A flying operations

    The 56th Fighter Wing will resume local F-35A Lightning II flight operations Wednesday June 21, 2017, following an 11-day pause after five physiological events occurred during flights from May 2-June 8 2017.

  • CSAF visits Battlefield Airmen, presides over BMT graduation

    Air Force Chief of Staff David L. Goldfein visited with members of the Battlefield Airmen Training Group and served as the reviewing official and guest speaker for Air Force Basic Military Training graduation here June 15-16.“The nation relies on us to provide global vision, reach and power,”

  • Father’s influence creates legacy of pilots

    Having a fighter pilot inspire you to join the Air Force is fairly common, but having that inspiration living in the same house adds a different outlook.Lt. Col. Andrew “Kisser” Kissinger, 39th Flying Training Squadron T-6 Texan instructor pilot, understands the pull of the Air Force after watching

  • Airmen and civilians impact on Air Force recognized with unique opportunity

    Thirty-five Airmen and civilians from across the Air Force were recognized as the inaugural PACE Professionalism Impact Award recipients, June 6-9, during the Next Jump Leadership Academy. Held in Boston and New York, the leadership academy experience was afforded to all of the Profession of Arms

  • Third generation pilot graduates at CAFB

    When one SUPT Class 17-10 graduate pins on his Air Force wings, June 9, 2017, he will become the third generation of Air Force fighter pilots.Second Lt. Curtis Hunter Hughes is following in the footsteps of his father, and his grandfather before him.Hunter grew up in Denver, Colorado, and graduated

  • Luke civil engineers partner to tackle B.A.S.H.

    Airmen from seven bases across the country partnered with Luke Air Force Base civil engineers to accomplish the annual Bird/Wildlife Air Strike Hazard mission, which began in March and is expected to be completed in June.

  • The 381st Training Support Squadron Student Development Flight

    VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California. --For the past 30 years a small percentage of officers arrive at the 381st Training Group, for technical training, without a security clearance which prevents them from starting classes. The Office of Personnel Management has a significant backlog in clearance

  • From the ground up

    Some people dream of becoming a fighter pilot, while others dream of becoming a military special operator.Very few people make both dreams come true.Second Lt. Andrew Dane, a 47th Flying Training Wing pilot graduate and former Tactical Air Control Party special operator, will be able to see both