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  • Critical Days of Summer calls for increased risk management

    More daylight, clear skies and no school usually means one thing - summer is here.For many in the Air Force and Air Education and Training Command, summer means outdoor activities. Whether it's the road or the beach that beckons Airmen to come out and play, safety officials and senior leaders are

  • AETC commander tours Keesler

    Gen. Edward Rice Jr., commander of Air Education and Training Command, met with Keesler Airmen during a tour of the base June 10-11.During the visit, Rice, Chief Master Sgt. Gerardo Tapia, AETC command chief, and Teresa Rice, the commander's spouse, talked with groups of students and permanent party

  • African Airmen return to Air University for U.S. Air Forces Africa symposium

    Military officers from the air forces of 16 African countries returned to Air University for the African Airmen Alumni Symposium June 11-13.The symposium, held at Air War College and sponsored by U.S. Air Forces Africa, is geared toward strengthening key partnerships, enhancing regional cooperation

  • AF Surgeon General lauds military medicine, SAUSHEC medical graduates

    Calling their accomplishment another chapter in a long history of success for military medicine in San Antonio, the U.S. Air Force Surgeon General honored more than 250 physicians and allied health care graduates during the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium awards and

  • Sheppard Chapel provides disaster relief aid for the first time

    Remembering what it felt like to experience a natural disaster in New Orleans, a Sheppard chaplain led airmen to lend a hand in Oklahoma.Capt. Chaplain Shane Moore, 82nd Training Wing, Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, led a team June 8 to Moore, Okla., to lend a helping hand to victims of an EF-5

  • F-35 fleet, training capability grow at Eglin

    The largest fleet of F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft grew to 25 aircraft as the F-35 Integrated Training Center here welcomed two new Air Force F-35A variants of the multi-role fighter to the Emerald Coast June 5.What this means for the 58th Fighter Squadron is the ability to fly an

  • Air Force medical leader levels with San Antonio Airmen

    The Air Force Medical Service's top enlisted advisor visited with Airmen from the 59th Medical Wing to discuss career issues during an enlisted call at the Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center auditorium June 6.Chief Master Sgt. Kevin Lambing, Chief of the Medical Enlisted Force and personal

  • 12th FTW instructor pilot summits Mt. Everest

    An active mountain climber since he was a cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Capt. Marshall Klitzke, a native of Lemmon, S.D., has felt at home in the mountains since he was a little boy."My grandfather was from [Colorado Springs] so I had visited the area since I was little. He always took me

  • Recruiter named one of AETC's top Airmen for 2013

    An Air Force recruiter stationed in Del City, Okla., was recently named as one of Air Education and Training Command's Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2013.Master Sgt. Derick Heflin, 342nd Recruiting Squadron health professions recruiter, joined the Air Force in 1999 from Albany, Ore. He started

  • Who will be AETC King of the Hill?

    A new game focused on the Air Education and Training Command's Cost Conscious Culture initiative is adding a fourth "C" to C3 - competition. King of the Hill, an online game in which AETC members can vote for their favorite AETC C3 ideas, will debut June 10 and run for 42 days. Each day two