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  • 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

  • Fitting tribute: PJs honored together

    It was fitting two decorated pararescuemen were recognized together in an awards ceremony at Forbes Hall Monday.Staff Sgts. John Hatzidakis and Christopher Nilson are pararescue instructors with the 342nd Training Squadron. They joined the Air Force at about the same time in 2002, went through

  • PJ instructor earns DFC

    A pararescueman was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with valor during a ceremony at Forbes Hall Monday. The Distinguished Flying Cross is awarded to officers or enlisted members who distinguish themselves in combat by performing acts of heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating

  • Help comes when things heat up

    Aircrew members from the 302nd Airlift Wing at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., have deployed here to support fire-fighting efforts in Mexico and Texas.The Mexican government requested the C-130 support to assist firefighting efforts against wildfires in northern Mexico's state of Coahuila, 60 miles

  • Maintainers help keep birds up, fires down

    While racecars seize the limelight upon crossing the finish line, people tend to forget that a team in the shadows helped get them to the end.Racers have the help of their pit crew, actors have a director and pilots rely on maintainers to ensure the mission gets completed. While aircrews from

  • Tyndall Fitness Center receives LEED Platinum Award

    The Tyndall Fitness Center was awarded the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum level, the highest rating possible as of Aug. 20, 2010, under the group's green building rating system. The fitness center opened Aug. 20, 2010 and is the first building in

  • Laughlin continues support of firefighting efforts in Mexico

    Two Department of Defense C-130 aircraft continued to support Mexican firefighting efforts to control wildfires in the Mexico state of Coahuila April 18 by launching six aerial fire-fighting missions from here.The C-130s, from the 302nd Airlift Wing at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., and under the