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  • ASTS receives life-like training tool

    The newest member of the 944th Aeromedical Staging Squadron allows operators to create "real-life" situations for medical training. Laerdal SimMan 3G, a new mannequin, is a life-like patient able to produce audible breathing and bowel sounds, and heartbeats. He can sweat, cry and bleed. Even more

  • Changes to military health system create efficiencies, improve care

    A proposed new governance structure will make the military health system more effective, produce savings and improve beneficiaries' access to care.Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter submitted a report to Congress March 2 describing the department's plan to further integrate health operations.

  • Facility Energy Program earns new CDC playground at Tyndall

    Energy reduction efforts at Tyndall have translated into a cash award from Headquarters Air Education and Training Command. The command's annual Energy Incentive Award recognizes the top three performers in energy and water intensity reduction. For fiscal 2011, Tyndall finished third in the command

  • AETC to save money, boost security with ID system improvements

    Security forces throughout Air Education and Training Command are using technology improvements to make base access more secure while at the same time saving money and resources.In 2010, the command began using a system called DBIDS, or Defense Biometric Identification System, to check IDs at base

  • ACC 2-star recognizes Det 1 for F-22 modification

    The Air Combat Command director of operations visited a detachment at Luke on Monday to recognize the unit for designing an important safety feature for the F-22 Raptor. "This is really an important thing you have done for the Air Force and the F-22 fleet," Maj. Gen. Charles Lyon, ACC director of

  • High-bay lighting project nets $49,119 rebate from CPS Energy

    CPS Energy of San Antonio has again rewarded Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph for its energy conservation efforts - this time for a $320,000 project to replace high-bay low-efficiency lighting in 11 of the base's hangars with fluorescent light fixtures.Last week, Yvonne Haecker, the utility company's

  • AETC commander: Air Force staying ahead of learning curve

    The commander of Air Education and Training Command spoke about the future of Air Force learning at the Air Force Association's 2012 Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 23.General Edward A. Rice, Jr. addressed Airmen and defense industry professionals on the Air Force's need to continue to

  • AETC: Building a Culture of Cost Consciousness

    The Air Force will support a smaller, leaner and lethal capable force and encourage a more disciplined use of defense dollars, according to senior leaders, who unveiled the Fiscal Year 2013 budget on Feb. 13. The Air Force is requesting $154.3 billion for fiscal year 2013, five percent less than the

  • New IAAFA airfield facility consolidates aviation training

    Senior Air Force and Inter-American Air Forces Academy leaders, along with representatives from six Latin America partner nations, opened the new IAAFA Airfield Training Complex at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Feb. 9."More than a new home for the 318th Training

  • Laughlin reduces energy, saves money one bulb, faucet at a time

    Laughlin's 47th Civil Engineer Squadron recently kicked off another energy and money saving project to follow executive orders in place to reduce water and energy consumption.The order states that each installation must reduce water consumption by two percent each year and energy consumption by