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  • Air Force medical leaders salute veterans

    Senior leaders from Wilford Hall Medical Center paid tribute to men and woman who have served before them Feb. 12 at the Audie L. Murphy Veteran's Hospital, San Antonio, Texas, as part of a week-long national salute to veterans.The annual National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans Program was

  • CES aids ice storm recovery ops

    After a severe winter storm blanketed southwestern Oklahoma with a destructive layer of ice Jan. 28, nine members of the 802nd Civil Engineer Squadron assisted with recovery efforts at Altus Air Force Base, Okla.With ice accumulations exceeding 1.5 inches, the storm caused significant damage to

  • Keesler medical teams aid Haiti relief efforts

    The 81st Medical Group's Critical Care Air Transport Teams are providing care to victims of the Haiti earthquake who are airlifted from Haiti, to hospitals in Florida. So far, the Keesler's CCATT teams have completed eight medical missions as of Feb. 7.Emergency medicine physician Maj. (Dr.) Stephen

  • 82nd Training Wing gets UCI outbrief results

    Two 82nd Training Wing units earned "outstanding" rating and three of its four training groups earned "excellent" ratings as the wing completed the 2010 Air Education and Training Command Unit Compliance Inspection with an overall "satisfactory" rating Feb. 10. The wing safety office and the 367th

  • Sheppard trains Chilean air force

    They might not be strong in numbers, but by the time four Chilean air force enlisted members leave Sheppard Air Force Base, they will be among mental giants in aircraft maintenance.Thanks to a 96-hour course of instruction, Chilean maintainers are learning the finer points of four specific aircraft

  • SARC holds classes for Victim's Advocates

    Master Sgt Daniel Mendoza used to listen to the horror stories his wife told while she worked at a domestic violence center in Hawaii. The Career Development Course writer at the 366th Training Squadron decided to stop listening to the stories and become a part of the recovery process for victims

  • Goodfellow to honor Medal of Honor recipients

    Goodfellow Air Force Base will honor two of only five living Air Force Medal of Honor recipients in May by dedicating two Visiting Officer Quarters buildings at Goodfellow AFB May 7to Cols. Leo Thorsness and George "Bud" Day.Leo K. Thorsness, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, was awarded the Medal

  • Tuskegee Airmen blazed trail of excellence before civil rights movement

    More than a decade before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., a group of young African-American men made a statement of their own, overcoming racial prejudice and the racial stereotypes of the day to shine as aviators in World War II.Some of the surviving members of

  • Keesler medical teams providing Haitian victim care

    Two medical teams from the 81st Medical Group are providing vital care to Haiti earthquake victims who are airlifted to hospitals in Florida.Two, three-person Critical Care Air Transport Teams from the 81st Medical Operations Squadron at Keesler AFB, Miss., are bringing aid to the earthquake