Feb. 11, 2020 Columbus AFB provides aerial support for joint, multi-national exercise Pilots and student pilots at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, have and will continue to take part in exercise Southern Strike from Feb. 3-13, traveling back and forth to Gulfport, Mississippi. The exercise is conducted to increase deployment readiness and included more than 40 units from the
Feb. 11, 2020 Holloman AFB-based aircraft go to Tyndall for joint training and weapon evaluations The 325th Fighter Wing often lends its flight line to units for something that can only be done in Tyndall Air Force Base’s unique airspace that it shares other military installations nearby; live fire missile testing.
Feb. 11, 2020 Columbus AFB highlights best of the best during annual awards Team BLAZE at Columbus AFB's 14th Flying Training Wing names their 2019 annual award winners.
Feb. 7, 2020 300 rated officers to join Total Force Aviation Recruiting Team The Air Force's first Aviation Recruiting Team, a Total Force Recruiting program specifically designed to help reach the goals of the Chief Of Staff of the Air Force’s Rated Diversity Improvement initiatives, was recently stood up and AFRS’s Detachment 1 held the team's first two-day training course
Feb. 7, 2020 Pilot Training Next and Clarkson University Air Force ROTC make history with distance learning instruction Pilot Training Next helped make Air Force ROTC history while pushing the limits of technology and training during their recent partnership with Clarkson University.
Feb. 7, 2020 Oklahoma military leaders converge for annual summit at Altus AFB Military leaders from across the state gathered at the 97th Air Mobility Wing for the Oklahoma Commanders Summit, Feb. 3-4, 2020, at Altus AFB. The summit is held annually at a different military installation and aims to build cooperation and efficiency among the service branches.
Feb. 7, 2020 47th OSS commander details why people and relationships matter most There is no one single location my family and I can say is our favorite throughout our 16-year career. A reason for this is because it has never been about locations, but rather the people and relationships built during our time at various bases. We’ve been to bases some would argue offer
Feb. 6, 2020 Snow blankets Sheppard, North Texas A winter weather event moved across much of North Texas Feb. 5, 2020, dropping several inches of snow. While not the 7-9 inches forecast, the accumulation was enough for Sheppard AFB leadership to suspend training Feb. 5 and parts of Feb. 6.
Feb. 6, 2020 AETC partners with UTSA to refine pilot candidate selection In an effort to gain more insight into what attributes could best predict the success of pilot training candidates, Air Education and Training Command turned to the data analytics program at the University of Texas-San Antonio to help them refine and validate the Pilot Candidate Selection Method as
Feb. 6, 2020 Altus Environmental Team use microbes to filter ground water The 97th Air Mobility Wing additionally maintains its own water filtration system on base specifically designed for ground water, or rather, water not intended for consumption. Located more than 30 feet underground, these large water filters, known as bio walls, use naturally found microbes to