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  • AF Evasion, Conduct After Capture training facility opens at Lackland

    A one-of-a-kind facility, built specifically to accommodate all Air Force Evasion and Conduct After Capture training, opened Monday.That's when new students began the four-day Just-In-Time Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape training course.The program is for Airmen who will operate in

  • Sheppard makes improvements with AETC energy program award winnings

    Sheppard earned second place in Air Education & Training Command's Energy Use Reduction Program. The base received $1 million, which was spent on improving infrastructure, communication network infrastructure and quality of life.Maj. James Becker, 82nd Comptroller Squadron commander, said the money

  • New 937th TRG reports for duty at Fort Sam

    The 882nd Training Group has been leaving Sheppard Air Force Base piece-by-piece over the past few months. Now, on Oct. 3 at precisely 9:37 a.m., the organization becomes the 937th Training Group at its new location in nearby Fort Sam Houston.A new organization under Lackland's 37th Training Wing,

  • Altus Captain completes his Journey of Freedom

    With engorged knees and shins wrapped like a fitness mummy, he staggered through the final miles of his journey with the help of his parents, wife and brother. The last five miles took him five hours to complete. Finally 40 hours after he began, his journey was over. "When I got to the point of

  • New HC-130J arrives at Kirtland AFB

    A new HC-130J Combat King II personnel recovery aircraft arrived Sept. 29 at Kirtland Air Force Base as the first of a fleet of seven HC/MC-130Js that will be assigned here over the next few years.The HC-130J replaces the HC-130P/Ns as the only dedicated fixed-wing personnel recovery platform in the

  • Laughlin IP surprises daughter at school after returning from deployment

    Buena Vista Elementary School was the site of a touching moment Oct. 3 when a Laughlin instructor pilot surprised his daughter after returning home from a deployment.Maj. Jonathan Somogyi, 85th Flying Training Squadron, returned to the area after spending the last five months at Manas Air Base,

  • T-6 advisory mission ceases, Iraqi pilots teach their own

    "Iraqi air power starts here," are the words hanging above the doorway of the Iraqi air force's Squadron 203, a T-6A Texas II flight training squadron at Tikrit Air Base, Iraq. The words ring true, in part, because of the efforts of the U.S. Air Force's 52nd Expeditionary Flying Training Squadron,

  • Laughlin sergeant creates formula to boost dust storm prediction accuracy

    The saying "leave it better than when you found it" is constantly used in the military with all the moving and relocating that is done.Staff Sgt. Thomas Jenkins, 47th Operations Support Squadron Weather Flight NCO in charge of weather systems, did just that and more after a recent deployment to

  • Officials reinforce AETC information, operations security standards

    Air Education and Training Command officials recently turned up the heat on service organizations to reinforce operations security standards - not even trash is safe from scrutiny.Dr. Jim Crissinger, AETC program manager for critical asset risk management and operations security programs, and his

  • Sheppard graduates first 9-level Aircraft Armament course

    The 363rd Training Squadron graduated its first class of nine-level Aircraft Armament Systems senior non-commissioned officers Sept. 23 at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas.The two-week course is focused on teaching career maintainers how to become managers. While initial armament systems training is