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  • All military medical training roads now start at METC

    The future of military medical training arrived at Fort Sam Houston in a big way June 30 with the opening of the sprawling Medical Education and Training Campus.The METC, the crown jewel of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission's mandates for Fort Sam Houston, is an integrated campus

  • MC-12W site survey team visits Altus

    Altus AFB hosted the MC-12W site survey team from headquarters Air Combat Command June 22-24. The purpose of the visit was to provide a thorough evaluation of the base infrastructure, in support of basing up to 37 MC-12W aircraft on the installation. The primary mission of the MC-12W is providing

  • VA Hospital gives soldiers early holiday

    They're helping veterans everyday in their facility but their care goes beyond the hospital. Staff at the West Texas VA Medical Center in Big Spring, Texas, and the Big Spring community teamed up in June to give deployed servicemembers an unexpected holiday with Operation Soldier Holiday

  • Maxwell launches video, audio podcasts

    Maxwell Air Force Base entered the world of portable news as it launched a series of podcasts online June 28.Podcasting, a method of publishing broadcasts via the Internet, allows users to subscribe to a feed of video and audio files, listen to them on their computer and load them on a portable

  • Air Force trauma care consolidates with Army

    The Air Force's only Level 1 trauma center, Wilford Hall Medical Center, discontinues trauma services here July 1.All severely injured trauma patients from San Antonio, Bexar and surrounding counties, and South Texas, will go to nearby Brooke Army Medical Center or University Hospital in San Antonio

  • AETC's senior enlisted leader examines predeployment training

    Air Education and Training Command's command chief master sergeant visited Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst June 14-17 to gain first-hand knowledge of the Air Force predeployment training conducted here.Command Chief Master Sgt. Robert Tappana visited the 602nd Training Group (Provisional),

  • Dental leaders break ground on new clinic

    A groundbreaking ceremony took place June 24 beginning to begin construction of a 32,680-square foot facility to replace MacKown Dental Clinic, home of Air Force dental residency training."The new clinic will be almost double the size of the current facility, which was built in 1952," said Col. Jay

  • Dental residents, fellow graduate from AF training program

    Twenty-four dentists, representing four branches of military service, graduated from the 59th Dental Training Squadron's residency and fellowship program June 24 during a ceremony in the Gateway Club here.The Air Force, Army, Navy and Canadian graduates represented six residencies and one

  • Fallen Nomads honored on Khobar Towers anniversary

    Approximately 100 people gathered here June 25 to remember the 12 Airmen who made the highest sacrifice in service to the United States 14 years ago today.A terrorist attack at Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, resulted in 400 casualties among civilian and military personnel. The 33rd Fighter

  • New military working dog facility built to highest "green" standard

    In an effort to be environmentally friendly, the 56th Security Forces Squadron military working dog section is currently undergoing green construction, which began in January with an estimated complettion date at the end of July. While the project did not cost enough to be required to be green, the