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  • Tell Us Your Air Force Story

    For the past two months Air Education and Training has been using Waypoints as an online medium for wing commanders and Airmen alike who seek new ways to understand diversity in the Air Force and embrace the culture that comes with it, and so the objective of this site is: tell us your story.On this

  • Distinguished service since ‘72

    The history of the 12th Flying Training Wing stretches back to World War II and has been part of Air Education and Training Command since it was activated as part of Air Training Command at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas on May 1, 1972.Although the wing celebrates the lineage of its predecessor

  • LRS Airmen support RAAF C-17

    The U.S. Air Force has a strong partnership with allies world-wide. Not only during times of war, but also during humanitarian missions, our countries military forces work together to deliver life-saving supplies to those in need.

  • First senior enlisted in-residence students near graduation at AWC

    The first group of enlisted Airmen to attend Air University’s Air War College in-residence at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, is close to graduating from the Air Force’s top school for officer professional military education.The four chief master sergeants selected for the May 2017 graduating class

  • AETC First Faces: Tech. Sgt. Nathan Combs

    Tech. Sgt. Nathan Combs, a security forces Airman from the 502nd Airbase Wing, talks about his fight with cancer and return to duty."First Faces" began several years ago with chaplains from throughout AETC nominating Airmen from individual wings. Today, the program has expanded and includes a

  • AF Chaplain Corps College returns to Maxwell

    The Air Force Chaplain Corps College officially returns to Maxwell on April 1, 2017, after being in the Palmetto State for nearly seven years. The college had been operating at the Army’s Fort Jackson in South Carolina after it was moved there effective May 6, 2010, following a Base Realignment and

  • Air Force Medical Service 2016 Award Winners Announced

    The Air Force Surgeon General has announced the recipients of the Air Force Medical Service 2016 individual and team Annual Awards. The nominations submitted reflect the extraordinary quality of the Airmen in the Air Force Medical Service. The accomplishments of those recognized demonstrate

  • Reorganization yields AETC’s first civil service maintenance group

    The first civil service aircraft maintenance organization in AETC to become a group is the 12th Maintenance Group. An activation ceremony was held inside Hangar 41 at Joint Base San Antonio – Randolph, Feb. 10. The group was formerly a directorate. “We have been working on this reorganization