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  • Air Force selects 16,506 for promotion to staff sergeant

    The Air Force has selected 16,506 senior airmen for promotion to staff sergeant of the 39,064 eligible. The overall selection rate was 42.25 percent, with an average selectee overall score of 360.88. Officials selected 2,318 Airmen with a Promote Now recommendation for 14.04 percent of the total

  • AF medics, San Antonio firefighters corral training for EMT Rodeo

    Medics from the Randolph Clinic teamed up with an elite emergency response unit from the San Antonio Fire Department to hone their emergency response skills in preparation the Air Force’s 2016 Emergency Medical Technician Rodeo Aug. 24-27 in New Mexico.

  • Special Operations flight surgeon earns second set of wings

    For Capt. Matt Stein, earning his pilot wings from the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program was not the first time he donned a set of wings. Prior to arriving for Undergraduate Pilot Training at ENJJPT, Stein was a Special Operations Forces Medical Element flight surgeon for the 1st Special

  • One of Altus’s own

    The arrival of the KC-46 Pegasus refueling aircraft will begin a new wave of in-flight refueling capability and a new chapter in Altus Air Force Base history.For one of the KC-46 instructor pilots, this new era is a welcome return to the old. U.S. Air Force Capt. Ryan Stanfill, 97th Operations

  • Wizards welcome Williams as new commander

    Navy Cdr. Rex Burkett, outgoing 33rd Maintenance Squadron commander, passed command of the 33rd MXS to Air Force Lt. Col. Craig Williams during a change of command ceremony Aug. 18, 2016, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.Col. Ronald Huzzard, 33rd Maintenance Group commander, presided over the ceremony

  • AETC First Faces: Senior Airman Dustin Fazzini

    Senior Airman Dustin Fazzini, Contracting Specialist from the 82nd Training Wing at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, talks about how his family inspired him to join the Air Force and what it means to be a leader. "First Faces" began several years ago with chaplains from throughout AETC nominating

  • Devoted AF veteran serves community with art

    I seldom create things to please other people; I normally create things with the mindset that I’m making something that I would want to display in my own home,” said the man with many accolades and awarding-winning pieces adorning the walls around his drafting table. Before retiring in 2010, then

  • Calm in the chaos: CCT students under pressure in tactics exercise

    Rumbling down a dirt road in a Medium Tactical Vehicle cargo truck, a team of special operators quietly awaits for chaos to ensue. The truck grinds to a halt in an intersection in the forest. It’s clear why in a second: a voice squawks over the radio that a roadside bomb rendered their truck