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  • Undergraduate Pilot Training; there’s an app for that

    The 80th Flying Training Wing entered this year’s Air Education and Training Command Innovation Challenge after successfully creating an app to make more than 1,500 pages of necessary documents available to its pilots via handheld device.

  • AETC, Sheppard collaborate on Continuum of Learning

    Headquarters Air Education and Training Command Force Development expert Masoud Rasti visited Sheppard Air Force Base April 17, 2018, to help leaders understand implementation of the Air Force’s newest training paradigm, the Continuum of Learning. The CoL was introduced in March 2017 and changes

  • Reimagining Headquarters AETC empowers NAF Commanders

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas--At the direction of the Commander of Air Education and Training Command, Lt. Gen. Steve Kwast, AETC took on a bottom-up mission review to examine how it commands and controls its operations and respond to the changing pace of today’s dynamic national security

  • Cadets learn about their Pathway to Blue

    Second Air Force held their fourth annual “Pathways to Blue” initiative with more than 280 ROTC cadets representing 15 different colleges and universities here, April 6-7.Throughout the two-day event, ROTC cadets and enlisted personnel traveled through this diverse and inclusive event to better aim

  • When failure leads to success: 365th TRS wins AETC Adapt Award

    The 365th Training Squadron at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, has received the Air Education and Training Command Continuum of Learning Innovation Adapt Award for failing at a concept but developing lessons learned to one day reach their desired result.

  • Luke crew chief earns coveted MAJCOM award

    An F-16 Fighting Falcon dedicated crew chief assigned to the 309th Aircraft Maintenance Unit here was named the 2017 Air Education and Training Command Crew Chief of the Year.

  • Test pilot briefs T-6 nation

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas—An F-16 Fighting Falcon’s sustained 9 g-force break turn is no small matter on a normal day.  Imagine yourself there. Your head weighs 180 pounds and your arms are pinned to the stick and throttle; let go of your breath the wrong way, and you watch the world

  • 2017 Innovation Challenge: AETC lauds Continuum of Learning efforts

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, TEXAS--Air Education and Training Command will announce this year’s five winners of the 2017 Innovation Challenge during the AETC Senior Leader Conference held at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., March 19-21.  Winning units will receive a monetary award to be used