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  • Women's Equality Day, keeping history alive

    Team Sheppard held a special retreat ceremony Aug. 26 to commemorate Women's Equality Day, recognizing the 90th Anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. Sherry Murray-Garrett said this year marked the 162nd anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement. She

  • Air Force moving forward with clean up at Tyndall

    Air Force officials announced plans to continue with environmental cleanup efforts in place at Tyndall AFB. Terry Yonkers, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Environment and Logistics, directed the work move forward expeditiously within the framework established by the Defense

  • Laughlin contractor refuels its one-millionth aircraft

    Laughlin's 47th Logistics Readiness Division Fuels Management Flight recently surpassed a milestone 19 years in the making.The unit that refuels every Laughlin AFB aircraft and any visiting aircraft performed its one-millionth servicing Aug. 25.Robert Rodriguez, 47th LRD, topped off a T-38 Talon

  • 66 years and counting...

    Dorothy Rowe, 56th Comptroller Squadron chief financial analyst, celebrated her 50th year of service with the Defense Department Oct. 17, 1993. Seventeen years later, she is still working in the comptroller squadron with no plans to retire."I plan on working here as long as I have my mind and

  • Senior leaders 'lean' on AFSO21

    Senior leadership from the 37th Training Wing spent a day learning how to reduce waste, maximize resources and improve efficiencies by using the Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century program.AFSO21, a standardized approach for improving work processes and combat capabilities across the Air

  • Crew dismantles mighty B-52G

    The Navy Facilities Engineering Command's Engineering Center from Port Heuneme, Calif., began demolishing a B-52G Stratofortress Aug. 24-25 that was used to train thousands of aircraft maintenance Airmen in Training over the years.The 982nd Maintenance Squadron exhausted all channels to attempt to

  • Sheppard children receive back-to-school backpacks

    Military families gathered Aug. 21 on the play ground for one last event before Sheppard AFB children began their next school year. As part of the new school year celebration, the Sheppard AFB Chapel put together 100 back-to-school backpacks for the first 100 children who attended the event. Items

  • Air Force completes another year of enlisted promotion test production

    The Air Force has completed more than forty years of enlisted promotion test production. From June 2009 through the end of May 2010, Air Force officials wrote 244 unique promotion tests for the 2011 enlisted promotion testing cycle supporting the Weighted Airman Promotion System and the United

  • Medical readiness keeps Airmen healthy, fit to fight

    Over the last year, the 59th Medical Wing Readiness Flight has trained more than 3,000 San Antonio area Airmen and deployed over 1,000 personnel to 33 geographic locations in support of both wartime and humanitarian operations. In accordance with recent Base Realignment and Closure law changes, the

  • Del Rio boy gives two thumbs up as 'Pilot for a Day'

    Edgar Ibarra Jr. is a typical 8-year-old boy, who is into cars, airplanes and superheroes. He's shy with strangers but curious as to how things work. Meeting him for the first time, it is hard to notice that Edgar has spina bifida, a neural tube defect developed while in the womb. Little did Edgar