10 Dec 2019

Instructor, student pilots experience NVG training through new lenses

The 58th Airlift Squadron and the 97th Training Squadron recently combined their efforts to present a new virtual, high-resolution, night vision goggle training system to instructor pilots and loadmasters, Dec. 9, 2019, at Altus Air Force Base, Okla.

20 Nov 2019

Testing strengths: 19th AW demonstrates distributed operations

Airmen from the 19th Airlift Wing flew to Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, Nov. 15 through 17, 2019, to demonstrate distributed operations as a part of ROCKI 20-01, the wing’s semiannual full spectrum readiness exercise.

1 Nov 2019

AF Academy names airfield in honor of Tuskegee hero

Honoring a Tuskegee trailblazer: Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the first African American general in the Air Force, once said, “I could have been a teacher. I could have been a doctor or a lawyer, if I wanted to, but I didn’t – I wanted to be a pilot.”

30 Oct 2019

Sheppard Airman ACEs maintenance management production course

There is always the age old questions of who watches the watchmen? Who guards the guardians? Who maintains the maintainers? Can't say much for the first two questions, but for the last one we can finally answer proudly that they will be taken care of by a highly qualified, excellent in all she does, 110 percent giving, Airman who ACEd her technical training in the maintenance management production course.

30 Oct 2019

Total Force Initiative creates 147th Operations Group, Det. 1, at 558th FTS

A congressional mandate for increased total force integration authorized the 147th Attack Wing of the Texas Air National Guard to stand up a small Air Education and Training Command Undergraduate Remotely Piloted Aircraft Training, or URT, detachment.