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  • Free Professional Airmen’s Conference coming to San Antonio

    The Air Force Sergeants Association Professional Airmen’s Conference will be held at the Grand Hyatt-San Antonio, Aug. 22-26, 2015, in San Antonio, Texas.The conference is free to military and Department of Defense civilians and is scheduled to feature senior leadership perspective speakers to

  • SOS invites former faculty to help celebrate 65th anniversary

    All former Air Force Squadron Office College faculty, known as Red Pant Faculty, are invited to help the school celebrate its 65th anniversary Oct. 22-24, 2015."We have numerous events planned over a three-day celebration that not only reflect on the school's heritage, but also provides attendees

  • BOWST preps students for refueling mission

    Altus Air Force Base is home to one of the most advanced systems used to train future U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft boom operators. The Boom Operator Weapons System Trainer is a simulator used by boom operator students here at Altus AFB to provide hands-on training before

  • Columbus upgrades 100-year-old technology

    Spatial Disorientation, the inability to determine ones position in an open space, can be a cause of aircraft accidents.This is caused when the body's internal gyros do not match up with aircraft instrument readings and what the pilot expects to see. SD occurs because current SD trainer technology

  • Fighter Pilot: Hopper to bring resolve to Aug. 8 triathlon

    Three weeks before Maj. Christina Hopper's first half-Ironman race, she came down with bronchitis. She carried the sticky, coughing weight with her as she continued training, hoping that she'd kick it before race day. In a doctor's office on the Tuesday before the race, as her still-inflamed lungs

  • Air Force sharpens its Talons, propels pilot training into the future

    A major milestone for the Pacer Classic III T-38 Talon structural-modification program was celebrated during a ribbon cutting ceremony July 31 at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph. The Pacer Classic III program, run by Air Force Material Command, represents the largest single T-38 structural

  • 33rd maintainers launch F-35A’s towards IOC

    Airman 1st Class Zachary Weeks33rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, puts his tools away in an Aerospace propulsion general maxi at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., August 4, 2015. Week’s responsibility on the flight line is to safely inspect and launch the F-35A Lighting II. (U.S. Air Force

  • Sidewinders have inaugural class go 'Fangs out'

    The 311th Fighter Squadron here graduated its inaugural class of F-16 Fighting Falcon pilots at 6 p.m. July 31 at the Holloman Club. The 14 graduates, class 14-FBH, completed hundreds of hours of training over several grueling months to reach the historic ceremony and to join the proud heritage of

  • Academy cadets visit Keesler for summer learning

      Twenty-one U.S. Air Force Academy cadets visited Keesler as part of Operation Air Force, July 15-30. The program, available to ROTC and Academy cadets, is an opportunity for cadets to experience the operational Air Force and learn about different career fields they may be a part of as a future

  • Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force visits the 33rd Fighter Wing

    Tech. Sgt. Travis Yeager, 33rd Maintenance Squadron metal technician section chief, explains the capabilities of the Nacelle vent stiffener to Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James Cody his squadron’s coin at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., July 30, 2015. The 33rd MXS took initiative to craft their