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  • 59th Medical Wing plays key role in AETC mission

    Located on the northern edge of Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, the 59th Medical Wing headquarters – Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center – has overlooked the 'Gateway to the Air Force" since 1942.  Developing into a leading medical treatment, education, training, and research organization, the

  • Graduate school unveils new 3D metal printer

    The Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has been utilizing additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, to build prototypes with polymers for more than 30 years. On March 16, its Graduate School of Engineering and Management unveiled a new state-of-the-art

  • Science on a Sphere arrives at KAFB, first in DoD

    In a completely black room at the 335th Training Squadron’s Weather Training Complex, a 48-inch carbon fiber globe hangs, suspended from the ceiling with projectors pointing at it from each corner, awaiting its Defense Department debut March 23.    Science on a Sphere is the DoD’s newest weather

  • Lebanese student conducts first ‘in seat’ A-29 flight

    A Lebanese A-29 Super Tucano pilot trainee, from the 81st Fighter Squadron, conducted the first ‘in seat’ training sortie March 22, 2017, here. The program, which began earlier this month, is designed to ensure the Lebanon air force receives the support and training needed to safely and effectively

  • AETC’s 2016 Altus Trophy goes to San Antonio community

     Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson, commander of Air Education and Training Command, announced the community of San Antonio, Texas, as the winner of the 2016 Altus Trophy during a brief ceremony with AETC’s Civic Leader Group here Wednesday. “This is our way of recognizing the community’s impact and

  • 351st BATS unveils new assault course

    The 351st Battlefield Airmen Training Squadron debuted its new assault course March 16 at Kirtland Air Force Base. The unveiling included squadron leadership ceremoniously breeching the doors, students and instructors completing the course, and a burger burn. Family members watched as Airmen

  • 59th Medical Wing goes to great lengths to bring patient home

    On the morning of Feb. 16, 2017, a patient was loaded into an ambulance and rushed to the San Antonio Military Medical Center. He was admitted and tended to by doctors, nurses and technicians just like any other patient. But this patient’s journey to the hospital was unlike any other that day.

  • Comprehensive approach to suicide prevention

    Numbers don’t always tell the whole story, but they can lend gravity to an important health-related issue. The Centers for Disease Control defines epidemic as a disease attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks. “Last year, 62 active duty Airmen took their lives,

  • History of the 58th: So others may live

    As part of Air Education and Training Command’s 75th anniversary, Kirtland Air Force Base takes a look back on the 58th Special Operations Wing and its 23-year history in the command.In February 1976, the 1550th Aircrew Training and Test Wing, the predecessor to the 58th SOW, moved to Kirtland from