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  • AF fails in bid for 4th straight military softball title

    After 13 years of preparing at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., for the Armed Forces softball tournament, the All-Air Force softball team began its quest for a fourth-straight Armed Forces softball title by moving team tryouts and the All-Air Force camp to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland for the first

  • Not left behind: Wingman keeps fallen Airman's memory alive

    Seven years ago today, on Sept. 28, 2005, Airman 1st Class Elizabeth Jacobson, a security forces member, became the first female Airman killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom while providing convoy security support.The fallen security forces Airman has been honored in numerous ways following her death.At

  • Liddick takes command of Air Force Basic Military Training

    Barely into her first day as the 737th Training Group commander, the new senior leader of Air Force Basic Military Training said she expects her job at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland to be "an absolutely great tour.""I am going to soak it in, minute by minute," said Col. Deborah Liddick, who

  • An Airman's gift: BMT-taught CPR saves her brother's life

    If the Air Force needs to validate the importance of teaching Self Aid Buddy Care in basic training, a former trainee's brother is living proof of its effectiveness.Airman Basic Shelby Goff used CPR, a technique taught during SABC, to revive her 6-year-old brother, Amadeaus Foster of Grand Junction,

  • AETC awards Sheppard $10.5 million

    Brigadier General Michael Fantini, 82nd Training Wing commander, announced last week that Sheppard Air Force Base would receive more than $10 million in funds from Air Education and Training Command to support several demolition and renovation projects on the base, reinforcing the Cost Conscious

  • Manko pleads guilty, sentenced

    Staff Sgt. Jason Manko, a former Air Force military training instructor, was sentenced this afternoon during a special court-martial held here.Manko was sentenced to 45 days confinement, reduction to the grade of E-3 (airman 1st class), forfeiture of $500 pay per month for three months and hard

  • Senior leaders announce improved health system

    The San Antonio Military Health System celebrated a year of historic and unprecedented change in military medicine Sept.14.During a press conference at the San Antonio Military Medical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston senior military leaders announced the successful accomplishments of

  • Maxwell Airman receives $10K through IDEA Program

    Recently, Air Force Integrated Maintenance Data System computer programmer Senior Airman Zachariah Grummons from the Program Executive Office-Business Enterprise System received a $10,000 check from the Air Force Innovative Development through Employee Awareness Program. In February, Grummons

  • Tyndall fighter squadron sets flying record

    Tyndall's 43rd Fighter Squadron set a new flying record Sept. 24, accomplishing 53 local sorties in one day."We more than doubled the normal amount of flights which averages from 18 to 24 per day," said Lt. Col. James Akers, 43rd FS operations officer. "The previous daily record the 43rd FS flew at

  • Emergency mass notification system can save your life

    What do you do when you are on base and severe weather is fast approaching or a gunman has started randomly shooting people on base? The installation command post will warn and provide instructions simultaneously to all government computers, telephones, building public address systems, the outside