Innovative Environmental Coin Challenges Altus AFB

The 97th Civil Engineer Squadron here wants to recognize outstanding achievers in environmental stewardship and conservation with the award of a numbered challenge coin.The coin is the first of its kind on Altus AFB."We do have specific criteria on how the coin is to be awarded. We don't just give

Team BLAZE leaderships learns about "Servant Leadership"

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