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  • Jolly Old St. Nick takes Airman Megan McCulloh's airline tickets and checks them twice before she leaves Sheppard Dec. 22 during the Holiday Exodus. Airman McCulloh, an Airman-in-training at the 363rd Training Squadron, and thousands of other Airmen made the annual holiday trek to different areas of the country. (U.S. Air Force photo/Mike McKito)

    Home for the holidays: Sheppard Airmen leave for annual Exodus

  • Waynetta Deolach, one of the 46 residents of the Grayson Square Health Care Center in San Antonio, waves thank you while opening up her Christmas present from members of the 737th Training Group at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and the Air Force Personnel Center. Members of the group and AFPC traveled to the Grayson Square Health Care Center Dec. 20 to participate in the annual holiday gift presentation. Group and AFPC personnel adopt the residents, who range in age from 21 to 103, and bring wrapped gifts to help brighten the residents' holidays. (USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Tim Russer)

    Present ... presents

  • Former Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Paul Airey speaks during the dedication of the NCO Academy named in his honor Dec. 13 at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. (U.S. Air Force photo/Lisa Norman)

    Tyndall NCOA renamed after first CMSAF

    Tyndall's NCO Academy was renamed Wednesday to honor the first Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force. The Paul W. Airey NCO Academy dedication ceremony will be remembered as the second greatest thing to happen in the retired chief's professional life, said Chief Airey, only because becoming Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force will always be first.
  • Second Lieutenant John Herd, an Initial Flight Screening student, lands a Diamond DA-20 trainer aircraft on the flightline of Pueblo Memorial Airport in Pueblo, Colo., Thursday, Dec. 14. Lieutenant Herd completed his final solo sortie of the program with the landing, and has two check flights remaining before completing the program this week. He will attend SUPT at Vance Air Force Base, Okla., in July 2007. (Air Force photo by Tech Sgt Mike Hammond)

    New IFS facility opens doors to increased training

    On a clear, crisp southern Colorado afternoon, throngs of visitors filed through the front doors of the enormous, immaculate building to see the results of more than six months of renovation work come to completion. But above the buffed tiles and new carpeting on the floor and beyond the brand new gym, dining facility, and 195 new student lodging
  • Majors Randy Tiedt and Doug Stouffer update a simulated threat on the Portable Flight Planning Software they customized to incorporate simulated threats into the mission planning of T-1 students pilots Dec. 15 at Vance Air Force Base, Okla. The new process provides the students with an early exposure to the reality of combat. The two T-1 Jayhawks pilots are assigned to the 5th Flying Training Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo)

    Reservists add major adjustment to T-1 training

    Four or five months after graduating from Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance Air Force Base, students from the T-1 tanker and airlift track may very well find themselves flying over not so friendly skies in support of the Global War on Terrorism. Thanks to the efforts of two members of the 5th Flying Training Squadron, pilots
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