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  • Australian air force makes home at Luke

    The buildup of F-35 operations at Luke Air Force Base has begun, and the Royal Australian air force will soon be Luke's first international partner to train here on the F-35A Lightning II.The 61st Fighter Squadron and 61st Aircraft Maintenance Unit will house the RAAF personnel. The goal is to build

  • Vance Commissary named best small commissary

    The Commissary here earned first place in the Richard M. Paget Award in the Defense Commissary Agency's Best Commissary of the Year competition for fiscal year 2013. "Your excellence in the areas of accountability, customer satisfaction, unit cost, sales and accident rates has set you high above the

  • Snapshot of Laughlin: Feeling the pressure?

    It's no secret that Laughlin graduates the world's best pilots. However, before we can deploy mission-ready Airmen, they must learn to combat a more subtle, but no less dangerous threat: hypoxia.With the help of the skilled Airmen of the 47th Medical Operations Squadron Aerospace Physiology Unit,

  • AETC Civil Engineers: energy savings ongoing despite budget cuts

    Due to the current harsh fiscal climate and lack of appropriated funds, Air Education and Training Command Civil Engineers are faced with the daunting challenge to keep pace with federal mandates to reduce energy consumption by three percent annually.AETC Energy Program's funding has seen a decline

  • AETC changes approach to SAPR training

    The Air Education and Training Command will change the approach for this year's annual Sexual Assault Prevention and Response training. Air Force officials announced the 2014 SAPR training will be broken into two topically-driven modules. The first module will be conducted in the spring and focuses

  • After highway crash, instructor pilot flies again

    (This feature is part of the "Through Airmen's Eyes" series on AF.mil. These stories focus on a single Airman, highlighting their Air Force story.)Her career seemed ruined, her dreams grounded."At the beginning, I thought I'd never fly again," said 1st Lt. Laura Jones, when she recalled her Jan. 2

  • AF Negotiation Center of Excellence wins prestigious award

    The Air Force Negotiation Center of Excellence here was awarded the General Counsel's Alternative Dispute Resolution Award for 2013.The annual award is given to the organization that distinguished itself as the premier unit that most advanced the goals of the Air Force ADR program.The Air Force NCE

  • Laughlin and Keesler Airmen win 2013 AETC Cost Conscious Culture Award

    Air Education and Training Command officials announced winners of the 2013 AETC Cost Conscious Culture (C3) Annual Awards 22 April. Tech. Sgt. Jeffery Randolph, 14th Operations Support Squadron, Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, was awarded C3 Individual of the Year. The 47th Civil Engineering

  • It did just happen: 322nd TRS instructor selected MTI of the Year

    "That did not just happen."It's a phrase hundreds of trainees in the 322nd Training Squadron have heard Staff Sgt. Eddie Glover say while leading flights as a military training instructor.In fact, one trainee eventually told Glover that when he heard the instructor say "that did not just happen," he

  • Caution and commitment: Sheppard's response to a real world active shooter

    What was supposed to be a regular exercise on base turned into a real world active shooter response April 24.An active shooter exercise, meant to simulate the scenario of an individual engaged in the shooting of people in a confined space or populated area, aims to prepare military installations for