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  • Desert Challenge competitors train at Luke

    What thoughts come to mind when hearing that a person has any of the following: vision impairment, traumatic brain injury, amputation, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy or spinal cord injury?Probably not an athletic competitor.Fourteen U.S. Paralympic competitors trained at the Luke Air Force Base

  • British army veterans tour JBSA-Randolph

    Members from the 12th Flying Training Wing invited a trio of British Army veterans to Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph for a tour, chips and cheers May 16 as part of their week-long visit to San Antonio, which concluded May 18 with their participation in the second America's Armed Forces River Parade

  • Laughlin family returns from tornados' wake

    After a massive, nearly two-mile wide tornado with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour struck central Oklahoma May 20, 2103; a Laughlin family drove their truck, a borrowed trailer and 5,880 pounds of donations to the devastated areas. Tech. Sgt. Shane Buss, 47th Flying Training Wing Equal

  • Air Force Announces OTS Selection Board 13OT03 Results

    A total of 110 men and women from across America have earned an opportunity to become Air Force leaders following their selection for an officer's commission, officials here announced today. Air Force Recruiting Service officials considered 668 applications as part of the Officer Training School

  • 59th MDW chaplain makes big impact on deployed Airmen

    With the blinding sun baking down on the hot tarmac, maintenance crews strive to keep aircraft strategically poised to support troops on the ground in the area of operations. The work isn't easy, the days are long and nerves can be frayed. That is until the maintenance group chaplain rolls up with a

  • Air Force OCC chopper retires

    After more than five years of service, one of the Air Force's mobile marketing assets, the F-22 Raptor-themed chopper, retired and moved to its new home in the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Designed by the Orange County Choppers, the chopper

  • JBSA-Randolph building renamed to honor former instructor pilot

    Members of the Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph community gathered to honor the memory of the late Maj. Peter "Oly" Jahns during a building dedication ceremony May 17, when building 39 - home of the 39th Flying Training Squadron - was renamed "Jahns Hall."Jahns, a reserve instructor pilot for the

  • New AF under secretary visits Joint Base San Antonio

    Eric Fanning visited with Airmen at Joint Base San Antonio May 16 and 17 during his first base trip as the under secretary of the Air Force.His two-day visit to JBSA included stops at Randolph, Lackland and Fort Sam Houston, where he met with Airmen and got an overview of the military operations

  • Laughlin family helps in Oklahoma recovery

    After a massive, nearly two-mile wide tornado with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour struck central Oklahoma Monday afternoon, relief efforts immediately began to help the hundreds injured and several without homes.One of those willing to help was Tech. Sgt. Shane Buss, 47th Flying Training Wing