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  • SERE specialists facilitate training for Army, Air Force

    You're at work going about your usual business ---- as a military member, that may mean going on patrol with your squad or heading to a nearby depot for a resupply ---- when suddenly, you find yourself separated from your group. You are in an unfamiliar wilderness. You only have a few things in your

  • SOS shortens to increase attendance

    To align with the chief of staff of the Air Force's vision to give more company grade officers the opportunity to attend Squadron Officer School, Squadron Officer College is changing the school's course term length from eight to five weeks starting in fiscal year 2015. The school challenges students

  • Air Force reveals newest recruiting campaign

    The U.S. Air Force is bringing back its "Aim High" advertising slogan after a 15-year hiatus with the launch of the "I am an American Airman" recruiting campaign today. The integrated campaign, created by the Air Force's advertising agency, GSD&M, includes three commercial spots as well as new video

  • First pipeline class of F-35 crew chiefs graduates at Eglin

    Nine Airmen became the first Air Force recruits to graduate initial skills technical training as F-35 Lightning II crew chiefs after completing Mission-Ready Airmen training here Aug. 7."The opportunity to be the first of something so important means a lot. I know many people are looking at us to be

  • New museum to inspire Airmen

    Two Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland museums, The Airman Heritage Museum and the Security Forces Museum, will consolidate into the Enlisted Heritage and Character Development Center by October 2014 and will serve as a stepping stone into a larger $50 million, privately-funded museum set to open in

  • Barnes Center rebuilds senior NCO DL course, academy curriculum

    As any builder would know, building a structurally sound house starts with a solid foundation.That's the blueprint curriculum developers at the Air Force's center for enlisted professional military education followed when developing the new distance learning course for senior noncommissioned

  • Joint training mission provides cost-effective, life-saving training

    The Air Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron and Air Force's 81st Medical Group participated in the joint medical training exercise Operation Magnolia Medical Enroute Care Wednesday at Keesler Air Force Base and the Gulfport Combat Readiness Training Center.The Keesler units

  • Learning from CAOS

    At the Air University's LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education, behind heavy steel vault doors, members of the Royal Netherlands Air Force are strategizing in a combined air operations simulation wargame conducted June 16-27.The wargame takes place annually at the center's Wargaming