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  • Airman keeps San Antonio, Laughlin safe

    Last year in San Antonio, Texas, and a couple of hours down the road from Laughlin Air Force Base, more than 16 hundred arrests were made. Of those arrests, more than 580 were gang-related and more than 200 firearms were taken off the streets. The credit for pushing gangs off of "Military City's"

  • Master sergeant promotion results slated for July 16 release

    The Air Force selected 5,301 technical sergeants out of 23,619 eligible for promotion to master sergeant, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced. The selection list will be posted July 16, at 8 a.m. CDT on the myPers enlisted promotion page. Individual score notices will be available in

  • Keesler Airman selected for Nurse Enlisted Commissioning Program

    Before she joined the service more than three years ago, Senior Airman Alyssa Johnson already had her heart set on becoming an Air Force nurse. After determination and careful planning, she's been selected for the Air Force's Nurse Enlisted Commissioning Program.Johnson, a force management

  • AF Negotiation Center offers online cross-cultural negotiations courses

    The Air Force Negotiation Center here has partnered with the Defense Language and National Security Education Office and Joint Knowledge Online and developed three online courses to help service members successfully navigate their way through cultural differences either abroad or at home station.The

  • Strike Fighter Squadron 101 Changes Command

    The "Grim Reapers" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 101 held a change of command ceremony July 2 at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.During the ceremony, Cmdr. James D. Christie relieved Capt. Frederick E. Crecelius as the commanding officer of VFA-101, the first F-35C Lightning II squadron in the

  • Vance unveils Spatial Disorientation Simulator

    A new $1.2 million pilot-training tool was revealed during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Aerospace Physiology July 1.The Spatial Disorientation Trainer is designed to mimic what it feels like to fly in a T-6A Texan II, which every student pilot will do here.Students will be able to practice 22

  • Col. Edmondson takes command of 81st TRW

    Col. Michele Edmondson took command of the 81st Training Wing during a change of command ceremony at the Levitow Training Support Facility drill pad, June 26, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi.Maj. Gen. Mark Brown, 2nd Air Force commander, officiated the ceremony."I can't think of an Airman better

  • Hohn takes command at Altus

    U.S. Air Force Col. Todd Hohn assumed command of the 97th Air Mobility Wing June 26.U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. James Hecker, 19th Air Force commander, served as the reviewing officer at the ceremony that honored former 97th AMW commander U.S. Air Force Col. Bill Spangenthal and inducted Hohn as the

  • Keesler program brings important practices to AF healthcare

    The Air Force is moving to standardize healthcare of its Airmen, dependents and retiree population with a new program called the Human Performance Concept of Operations. "The HP CONOPS is a big picture-style plan that will guide us for the next 10 or so years," explained Lt. Col. (Dr.) Shane