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  • AETC explores learning possibilities through new pilot training program

    Air Education and Training Command is taking a different look at how people learn and hopes to make a more efficient path for pilots to earn their wings through the Pilot Training Next initiative.Scheduled to begin February 2018, the program’s goal exemplifies the command’s concepts of the Continuum

  • Top doc checks up on Keesler Medical Center

    Lt. Gen. Mark Ediger, Surgeon General of the Air Force, toured the Keesler Medical Center, Oct. 17, exploring their mission and meeting the personnel who accomplish it.During his tour, he visited more than 10 different units in the 81st Medical Group to include mammography, emergency department,

  • Sheppard hosts logistics strategy summit

    F-35 Lightning II maintenance training and finding innovative was to educate future Airmen were among the topics discussed at the Air Force Logistics Strategy Summit. The annual logistics strategy summit was held at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, October 11-13, 2017.

  • AETC’s Aerospace Medicine: Last hope for every recruit’s medical waiver

    Air Education and Training Command Surgeon General’s Aerospace Medicine Division reviewed more than 45,000 case files for medical waivers in fiscal year 2016, averaging about 25 cases per person per work day.The Physical Standards Branch, or SGPS, is an 11-person office and serves as the designated

  • Education, Training, Experience: The Continuum of Learning

    Air Education and Training Command is reimagining how Airmen are developed, through a paradigm shift in education, training and capitalization of experiences in a new concept: the Continuum of Learning. The effort officially kicked off with a leadership summit last week, in which AETC senior

  • FAA restricts unauthorized drone operations at AETC bases

    Drone enthusiasts beware, Air Education and Training Command installations are covered by Federal Aviation Administration regulations that restrict unmanned aircraft operations. Using its existing authority under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations, the FAA instituted airspace restrictions

  • Keesler furthers MTL development with new building, resources

    The 81st Training Support Squadron’s Military Training Leader Course schoolhouse has a new home in Lott Hall, where the first course in the new building began July 17.The instructors, formerly based in Allee Hall, only had a couple classrooms at their disposal. They now have access to a dedicated

  • AETC general, Silver Star honoree, reflects on 29 years of service

    In 1988, after earning his commission through the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, then 2nd Lt. John Cherrey earned his pilot’s wings at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. Today Cherrey, after a 29-year distinguished military career, retires in a

  • AETC Announces Changes to Developmental Special Duty Assignments

    Air Force officials are making three substantial changes to the Developmental Special Duty process that will significantly improve the Air Force’s ability to fill these important positions by adding more flexibility to the process and increasing opportunities for noncommissioned officers. The