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  • AFIT education paves way to space

    How far can a higher education take you? About 220 nautical miles - straight up. That's at least true for retired Col. Steve Lindsey, an astronaut with NASA and graduate of the Air Force Institute of Technology.Colonel Lindsey's latest space flight, aboard the final mission of the space shuttle

  • Air Force announces fighter training mission preferred basing decision

    Air Force officials announced today Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, is the preferred location for consolidation of the Introduction Fighter Fundamentals' (IFF) training units.The Air Force currently conducts IFF training at five locations, producing 450 IFF graduates per year. Over the years, the

  • Goodfellow hosts SISRO Conference, ISR Deputy Chief of Staff attends

    Goodfellow hosted the Senior Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Officers Spring 2011 Conference April 26-29, which was attended by many dignitaries including Lt. Gen. Larry James, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Headquarters U.S. Air Force,

  • Altus Airman helps make Iraq a little greener

    After six straight days on the job, people usually use their day off to rest and recover before their week starts again. That's not the case with a group of Airmen deployed to Contingency Operating Site Warrior, Iraq.As areas of the base got dirtier and more polluted with trash, members of the 321st

  • Wing names building after fallen ISR Warrior

    April 29 marked a historical day here as the wing celebrated a legacy and honored one of its own Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance comrades.She was a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate and a Goodfellow-trained intelligence officer. At just 25 and only three months into her first deployment,

  • Randolph pilot killed in Afghanistan

    An Airman assigned to the 12th Flying Training Wing was killed in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday when a shooter opened fire at the Kabul International Airport killing eight U.S. servicemembers and one American contractor.Maj. Jeff Ausborn, a 99th Flying Training Squadron instructor pilot, was

  • AFIT Professor Receives Air Force Lifetime Achievement Award

    Air Force Institute of Technology Mr. Kenneth W. Bauer, Jr. has received the Air Force Analytic Community's Analysis/Lessons Learned Lifetime Achievement Award.The award acknowledges Bauer's outstanding accomplishments as a teacher and mentor preparing forward-thinking officers for the Analysis,

  • HQ AETC officials announce new PDG

    HQ Air Education and Training Command officials recently announced the release of the new AFPAM36-2241, Professional Development Guide. The effective date of the new PDG is Oct. 1 and will be available at www.e-publishing.af.mil beginning May 2. Master sergeants testing this December will be the

  • AETC commander, chief and company visit Mighty 97th

    The commander and command chief master sergeant of Air Education and Training Command spent two days here last week to meet the people and learn the mission of the 97th Air Mobility Wing.Gen. Edward A. Rice Jr., AETC's commander, along with his wife, Mrs. Teresa Rice; and Chief Master Sgt. James

  • Sharing space with the world: Eaker's NSSI opens course to foreign students

    The National Security Space Institute opened the Space 200 course to students from Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada, welcoming two Canadian space officers to the course Tuesday.The Space 200 course is NSSI's mid-career course for space professional education. It develops space professionals