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  • Sheppard salutes area COVID-19 frontline fighters with Spirit Over Texoma

    Ten aircraft from Sheppard AFB took off at about 4 p.m. May 1, 2020, to pay tribute to those engaged in this fight with flyovers in North Texas and Southern Oklahoma as part of Spirit Over Texoma. Areas included Wichita Falls, Burkburnett, Electra and Iowa Park, Texas, as well as a flyovers in

  • Operation Thread Masters: Spouse-led group makes face covers for Sheppard

    Over the past few months, multiple Sheppard AFB squadrons and communities have gotten together to help the COVID-19 crisis in their own ways. To add to the groups of supporting heroes we have the members of Operation THREAD MASTERS, a spouse led volunteer group obtaining masks for Sheppard’s base

  • Pod system helps 80th FTW reduce risk of contracting, spreading COVID-19

    The 80th Flying Training Wing’s Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program has stepped up their operational game plan to keep personnel healthy while continuing its mission by operating within small units of individuals, or pods, as another measure to combat the spread of COVID-19 and limit

  • 'Guinea pig' class conquers innovation, COVID-19 en route to graduation

    Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program Class 20-04 has endured unique circumstances during their trek to earn their pilot wings, which began Feb. 26, 2019. Perhaps no other class in the nearly 40-year history of the 80th Flying Training Wing program has faced the traditional trials while also

  • Sheppard 1 of 5 AETC bases to use new COVID-19 test kits

    Sheppard AFB is one of five bases in Air Education and Training Command selected to receive new BioFire UEA test kits, which will knock down the turnaround time for COVID-19 results to potentially minutes instead of days, according to AETC.

  • 363rd TRS at Sheppard aids in fight against COVID-19

    With most cities across the country issuing stay-at-home orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people can only sit at home and wait it out. But others take matters into their own hands to try and make a difference.

  • Sheppard grads make face covers to combat COVID-19

    Aircrew flight equipment and other aircraft maintenance career field graduates have put their sewing skills to work to create thousands of cloth face covers out of garments like old uniforms. The race to provide another precautionary measure to the combat toolkit against COVID-19 began in earnest