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  • AF Surgeon General lauds military medicine, SAUSHEC medical graduates

    Calling their accomplishment another chapter in a long history of success for military medicine in San Antonio, the U.S. Air Force Surgeon General honored more than 250 physicians and allied health care graduates during the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium awards and

  • F-35 fleet, training capability grow at Eglin

    The largest fleet of F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft grew to 25 aircraft as the F-35 Integrated Training Center here welcomed two new Air Force F-35A variants of the multi-role fighter to the Emerald Coast June 5.What this means for the 58th Fighter Squadron is the ability to fly an

  • Air Force medical leader levels with San Antonio Airmen

    The Air Force Medical Service's top enlisted advisor visited with Airmen from the 59th Medical Wing to discuss career issues during an enlisted call at the Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center auditorium June 6.Chief Master Sgt. Kevin Lambing, Chief of the Medical Enlisted Force and personal

  • 12th FTW instructor pilot summits Mt. Everest

    An active mountain climber since he was a cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Capt. Marshall Klitzke, a native of Lemmon, S.D., has felt at home in the mountains since he was a little boy."My grandfather was from [Colorado Springs] so I had visited the area since I was little. He always took me

  • Recruiter named one of AETC's top Airmen for 2013

    An Air Force recruiter stationed in Del City, Okla., was recently named as one of Air Education and Training Command's Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2013.Master Sgt. Derick Heflin, 342nd Recruiting Squadron health professions recruiter, joined the Air Force in 1999 from Albany, Ore. He started

  • T-1 Jayhawk mod ushers in new era in CSO training, first for AF

    The 451st Flying Training Squadron completed the final step of a long journey when a T-1A Jayhawk modified for electronic warfare training took flight on an undergraduate syllabus sortie June 4. This is the first time in Air Force history an undergraduate aviation program has formally incorporated

  • Desert Challenge competitors train at Luke

    What thoughts come to mind when hearing that a person has any of the following: vision impairment, traumatic brain injury, amputation, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy or spinal cord injury?Probably not an athletic competitor.Fourteen U.S. Paralympic competitors trained at the Luke Air Force Base

  • British army veterans tour JBSA-Randolph

    Members from the 12th Flying Training Wing invited a trio of British Army veterans to Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph for a tour, chips and cheers May 16 as part of their week-long visit to San Antonio, which concluded May 18 with their participation in the second America's Armed Forces River Parade

  • Laughlin family returns from tornados' wake

    After a massive, nearly two-mile wide tornado with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour struck central Oklahoma May 20, 2103; a Laughlin family drove their truck, a borrowed trailer and 5,880 pounds of donations to the devastated areas. Tech. Sgt. Shane Buss, 47th Flying Training Wing Equal