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  • AFMMAST shares best practices with international partner

    Leadership from the Air Force Medical Modeling and Simulation Training (AFMMAST) Central Program Office recently had an opportunity to share best practices in medical simulation and training with Maj. Gen. Michael Tempel, commander of the Medical Operational Support Command for the German Armed

  • Furlough numbers for AETC announced

    Air Education and Training Command manpower officials announced furlough will affect 14,434 civilian employees throughout the command beginning July 8. On May 14, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel outlined a furlough implementation plan, stating civilians will take up to 11 days of unpaid leave before

  • SOC launches new SOS distance learning curriculum

    With the demands of career and family obligations, completing officer professional military education can be a challenge.Today's technology makes it possible for students around the globe to enroll in and complete the courses they need in the locations and times that work best for them. With this in

  • Maxwell medics return from supporting New Horizons

    Eight members of the 42nd Medical Group returned recently from Belize after supporting a 14-day medical readiness training exercise called New Horizons.The U.S. Southern Command joint humanitarian assistance exercise provides ear, nose and throat surgical procedures and hearing aids to patients

  • 372 TRS F-16 avionics MTT goes to South Korea

    A three-person mobile training team from the 372nd Training Squadron returned stateside May 11 after a deployment to South Korea providing F-16 avionics systems training to the Republic of Korea Air Force.The training, which began April 26 at Joongwon Air Base in ChungJu, focused on the differences

  • Honored in stone

    Carved into stone are the names of 22 individuals. Each was a pilot who served their country in the skies over Southeast Asia, and each paid the ultimate price, but another fact unites them: they were all instructor pilots here at Laughlin.The Laughlin Heritage Foundation in Del Rio, Texas, and

  • Learning from the past

    It was early, just before dawn. There was no light over the horizon when a Union patrol group encountered 45,000 Confederate soldiers. The soldiers belonged to Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, who ordered them to attack the Union forces. The Union soldiers were taken by surprise, and their forces were

  • JBSA-Randolph Airman earns Senior NCO of Year

    When Senior Master Sgt. Felix Bradford, Air Education and Training Command F-35 functional manager, walked into the office of one of his superiors one morning last month, he was somewhat apprehensive.Col. Craig Berlette, AETC Logistics, Installations and Mission Support deputy director, had

  • State Secretary Thorshaug visits ENJJPT

    Norwegian State Secretary Eirik Owre Thorshaug visited Sheppard today to meet with Norwegian student and instructor pilots at the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program. Also present was Brig. Gen. Morten Klever, the Deputy Director of the F-35 Program for Norway and former ENJJPT Steering

  • Four Keesler volunteers win Air Force award

    "A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization."Those words from the 41st president of the United States,