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  • When failure leads to success: 365th TRS wins AETC Adapt Award

    The 365th Training Squadron at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, has received the Air Education and Training Command Continuum of Learning Innovation Adapt Award for failing at a concept but developing lessons learned to one day reach their desired result.

  • AETC announces 2017 Innovation Challenge winners

    Air Education and Training Command announced this year’s five winners of the 2017 Innovation Challenge during the AETC Senior Leader Conference held at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., March 21.  The winning units will receive a monetary award to be used for any operations and maintenance fund

  • 19th Air Force experts transform flying training syllabi

    It started with a homework assignment from the commander in June 2017.Maj. Gen. Patrick Doherty, 19th Air Force commander, asked his team to deliver a redesigned Undergraduate Pilot Training syllabi “that embraced common sense and held ideas from the leaders and instructor corps to produce more

  • 80th FTW leadership try out mixed reality simulator

    Leadership at the 80th Flying Training Wing were able to try out a mixed reality simulator at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, March 7, 2018, as part of a process to determine if the software and technology can enhance undergraduate student pilot training.

  • 2017 Innovation Challenge: AETC lauds Continuum of Learning efforts

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, TEXAS--Air Education and Training Command will announce this year’s five winners of the 2017 Innovation Challenge during the AETC Senior Leader Conference held at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., March 19-21.  Winning units will receive a monetary award to be used

  • Airmen selected to participate in new cyberspace direct appointment program

    The Air Force recently selected the first two candidates for a newly created cyberspace officer direct appointment pilot program, authorized by the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act.Master Sgts. Anthony Bustamante, 92nd Cyberspace Operations Squadron flight chief, and Micheal Locke, 91st

  • Airmen gauge fear of heights in virtual simulation

    Electrical systems apprentice course Airmen in Training at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, donned a virtual reality headset Jan. 26, 2017, to test their limits with simulation that gauges their ability to work in high places.