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  • Keesler member wins Outstanding Airman of the Year

    Every year hundreds of Airman at various levels in the Air Force are recognized and win awards for doing something well. Out of those only a handful are selected to compete for the Airman of the Year award. From those, only 12 win the award. And this year, one of them walks the streets of Keesler.

  • AETC Trains America's International Partners

    Air Education and Training Command develops America's Airmen today...for tomorrow, but the command's reach extends far beyond America's borders.AETC is training the air forces of America's international partners, helping create a large-scale network of air force superiority and international

  • Luke Airmen recognized for combat contributions

    Four Thunderbolts from the 56th Logistics Readiness Squadron received recognition June 29 for their contributions in combat. Master Sgt. Iordanis Velissariou was awarded the Purple Heart, while Tech. Sgt. Miranda May, Staff Sgt. Steven Wilson and Airman 1st Class Dane Pratt each received the Air

  • 'Go for Green' helps Airmen make healthy choices

    A new program at the Solar Inn Dining Facility on base makes nutrition as easy as red light, green light.The Go for Green program is a nutritional recognition labeling system designed to provide a quick snapshot of the nutritional value of food choices in the DFAC. Food items are labeled green - eat

  • Diagnosed with disorder ... Airman fights to stay

    It normally takes a trainee 8.5 weeks to complete Air Force Basic Military Training. For one recent graduate, it took overcoming Guillain-Barre Syndrome to become an Airman, graduating six months after his arrival at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.In his fourth week of basic training last December,

  • Visitors on flightline create buzz for JBSA-Randolph pest control

    When 902nd Civil Engineer Squadron pest control technicians were dispatched for an unusual mission on Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph's west flightline the afternoon of June 13, they weren't surprised.A swarm of honeybees buzzing around on the flap of a T-6A Texan II trainer is an odd - and perhaps

  • Future leader embraces C3, earns Green Belt certification

    An Air Force Academy cadet spent five weeks, as part of a summer program, with Air Education and Training Command's Chief Learning Office where he earned his Green Belt certification.A Green Belt is the first level of certification under Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century, which is a

  • Physiology training combats human factors in flight

    One of the secrets behind nearly 75 years of U.S. air dominance is the quality of our pilot training. But long before students learn to identify, out-maneuver and defeat enemy aircraft, they have to learn to deal with a much more subtle but no less dangerous threat: hypoxia.Essentially a lack of

  • Past, present, future Airmen unite at BMT graduation, squadron visit

    Air warriors past, present, and future met when an enlisted aircrew member in the U.S. Army Air Corps attended the Air Force Basic Military Training graduation ceremony and visited Airmen at the 344th Training Squadron's Enlisted Air Crew Center of Excellence June 8.Ken Ganther, who served from

  • AETC commander addresses recruits' allegations of sexual misconduct

    The commander of the Air Force's Air Education and Training Command spoke to members of the media here June 28 about the on-going investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by military training instructors (MTIs) at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas."In the fall of 2011 we discovered, to our