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  • Airman & Family Readiness Center best in Air Force

    One word summed up the reaction at the Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Airman and Family Readiness Center about being named the 2011 Air Force AFRC Program of the Year - elation. "They were elated," said Sharon Witter, AFRC chief, when the staff was informed about the recent award. "There was a

  • Luke supports Wings of Blue visit

    The Air Force Academy Wings of Blue Parachute Team completed 4,918 jumps during a two-week period in March while at Gila Bend Auxiliary Field in southwestern Arizona. The team also set a new world record here as well. A new collegiate skydiving world record was set at Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary

  • Consolidated telephone services change April 1

    A key component of Air Education and Training Command's Culture of Cost Consciousness, or C3, is the application of technology to achieve cost savings - also known as Information Technology Efficiencies.AETC is changing the way it conducts consolidated telephone operations. The end result will be

  • Virtual Wingman makes smart choices easy

    Air Education and Training Command unveiled a new website accessible by smart phones and tablets that is designed to provide resiliency and safety information to Airmen. The website was shown at the Air Force Community Action Information Board meeting March 29.Among the highlights of the website are

  • Former commander inducted into AETC Order of Sword

    The former commander of Air Education and Training Command's 2nd Air Force is set to be inducted into AETC's Order of the Sword here a 6 p.m., April 6, in the Parr Club. Maj. Gen. Alfred Flowers retired from Air Force service in November 2011 after more than 46 years on active duty. He served as

  • Airman receives Bronze Star medal for heroism in combat

    Senior Airman Michael J. Malarsie was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Valor for heroism during a ceremony at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, March 30.Maj. Gen. Byron Hepburn, commander, 59th Medical Wing, presented the award to Malarsie for his actions while deployed as a Tactical Air

  • ASTS receives life-like training tool

    The newest member of the 944th Aeromedical Staging Squadron allows operators to create "real-life" situations for medical training. Laerdal SimMan 3G, a new mannequin, is a life-like patient able to produce audible breathing and bowel sounds, and heartbeats. He can sweat, cry and bleed. Even more

  • Changes to military health system create efficiencies, improve care

    A proposed new governance structure will make the military health system more effective, produce savings and improve beneficiaries' access to care.Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter submitted a report to Congress March 2 describing the department's plan to further integrate health operations.

  • Etchberger legacy lives on at Enlisted Heritage Research Institute

    In honor of his legacy and to inspire future generations of Airmen, two contributions were added to the Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger displays at Gunter Annex March 26.The Air University Foundation unveiled a bronze bust of Etchberger, now on exhibit at the Air Force Senior Noncommissioned

  • Bulgarian Air Force deputy commander tours Laughlin's pilot training program

    The deputy commander of the Bulgarian air force and his staff completed a two-day tour of Laughlin's pilot training program March 20.Brig. Gen. Rumen Radev visited Laughlin as the latest in a series of base tours geared in helping him transform the Bulgarian air force's pilot training program."As