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  • Laughlin named busiest airfield in AF for 2011

    Laughlin was officially announced the busiest airfield and combined air traffic control tower in the Air Force for 2011 on Jan. 10 by the Air Force Flight Standards Agency for having a total of 337,439 operations. Controlling the busiest airfield in the Air Force is the 47th Operations Support

  • 2012 Symposium shares lessons, vision with AETC Airmen

    Thousands of Airmen from across Air Education and Training Command flocked to the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center here Jan. 12-13 to learn about world-leading capabilities and technologies for educating, training, recruiting and innovating.More than 120 vendor booths and 70 seminars and panels

  • Altus AFB, first AETC base to test new Instrument Landing System

    Altus AFB was recently selected by a Virginia scientific, engineering and technology applications company to be the first Air Education and Training Command base to test an innovative new Instrument Landing System. The McLean, Va.-based Science Applications International Corporation is scheduled to

  • AETC hosts red carpet 'Red Tails' premiere

    The Air Education and Training Command Symposium focuses on the future of the command. But this year, on the eve of the first day, a special event was held to honor heroes and their legacy.Nearly 2,000 symposium attendees filled San Antonio's Lila Cockrell Theater Thursday to pre-screen an upcoming

  • Laughlin AFB graduates Afghanistan's newest pilots

    Three Afghan air force lieutenants will soon be returning to Afghanistan with silver wings after graduating from Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Dec.16 here.After competing against more than 350 potential Afghan pilot candidates, these three lieutenants are the first from their country to

  • 'Cool School' teaches arctic survival

    Surviving in the wilderness could be intimidating for some, but doing so during a brutal Alaskan winter could be downright scary. Detachment 1, 66th Training Squadron's Arctic Survival Training course, which began here recently, offers students a set of skills invaluable to enduring the subarctic

  • Lackland pararescueman receives Bronze Star Medal with Valor

    While engaged in operations against enemy forces near Arghandab Province, Afghanistan, July 12, 2010, an Airman risked his life to medevac three U.S. Soldiers injured by improvised explosive devices, saving their lives.Tech. Sgt. Luis Garcia, a pararescueman assigned to the 342nd Training Squadron,

  • AF rolls out new rifle qualification course

    Airmen taking the new Air Force Rifle Qualification Course are finding themselves learning more than just basic marksmanship skills.Long-awaited changes requiring more intensive weapons training officially took effect Thursday.Published in September by the Air Force Security Center, changes to the

  • 12th FTW trains AF's international partners

    International pilots from around the globe come to 12th Flying Training Wing locations to hone skills and strengthen friendships. Whether it's at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph or the 12th FTW's geographically separated unit, the 479th Flying Training Group at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., the

  • Recycling saves Keesler hospital $62,000

    The Keesler Hospital's operating room is once again "going green."In 2004, Capt. Wendy Wilkins, an 81st Surgical Operations Squadron operating room nurse, began reprocessing the Flowtron compression hoses used in the operating rooms. Unfortunately, the reprocessing program wasn't reestablished