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  • Augmented, Virtual Reality: Changing Airmen’s learning experience

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas-- The brightest minds across the Air Force have answered senior leaders’ call to action to provide innovative, game-changing solutions for a contest  known as the Air Force Spark Tank. Representing Air Education and Training Command, two different projects and

  • ENJJPT leading the way in new Pilot Training Next program

    When Air Education and Training Command’s newest pilot training program takes to the skies in early 2018 in Central Texas, the fingerprints of the 80th Flying Training Wing’s Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program will be all over it.

  • 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