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  • Airmen's Week: Changing the culture of Airmen

    Editor’s Note: This is the third in a four-part series highlighting the Airmen’s Week Program and the Military Training Instructors selected to be facilitators of a curriculum striving to inspire professionalism and excellence in the Air Force’s newest Airmen. Tech. Sgt. Alexander Alexander hails

  • AETC First Faces: Senior Master Sgt. Mark Blinn

    Senior Master Sgt. Mark Blinn, a superintendent from the 97th Air Mobility Wing at Altus Air Force Base, Okla., talks about his struggle with PTSD and anger, hard work and his journey to wellness."First Faces" began several years ago with chaplains from throughout AETC nominating Airmen from

  • JBSA members compete in first SAAPM survivor challenge

    Personnel from across JBSA gathered to compete in the first ever JBSA Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Survivor Challenge April 13 at JBSA-Randolph.The event was called the SAPR Survivor Challenge because it incorporated challenges a survivor of sexual assault might go through, including both

  • Family Nerf night fosters advocacy

    The Sheppard Family Advocacy hosted the family friendly Nerf night in union with April’s Child Abuse Prevention month theme to promote an active environment for families and encourage them to unplug and enjoy bonding together.

  • AETC small business pros attend training week

    The Department of Defense’s Office of Small Business Programs, in partnership with the Small Business Administration, sponsored Small Business Training Week 17 from April 3-7, 2017, at the Sheraton Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia. More than 600 government employees were in attendance.The event featured

  • Fitness Warrior

    Fitness is a key component in achieving Luke’s mission: building the future of airpower. With fitness, Airmen are able to achieve physical and spiritual health. For Sherri Biringer, 56th Force Support Squadron fitness specialist supervisor, her love of fitness grew through a type of workout called

  • Hitting rock bottom: One officer's tale of resilience and recovery

    As a young boy growing up on Coronado Naval Air Station in San Diego, I used to watch my father fly A-6s in the Navy. His father had died at a young age, so he raised us the best way he knew how…through physical discipline, mental strength, and zero emotion. But he loved his three boys more than

  • 'Ragnar' tests endurance of 58th MXS Airmen

    With temperatures nearing 100 degrees and sleep deprivation setting in, 12 Airmen from the 58th Maintenance Squadron powered through a 200-mile relay race known as “Ragnar.”The race goes for more than 24 hours, broken into segments. Each member of the team competes in a segment, and then switches