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Oct. 1, 2020
314th AW hosts Turkey Shoot competition

The 314th Airlift Wing recently hosted a Turkey Shoot competition Sept. 25, 2020 at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, challenging and scoring Flying Training Unit instructors on a myriad of events. The purpose of the Turkey Shoot was to challenge Airmen in the newly restructured active-duty
July 8, 2020
77-year-old ATC instructor returns to guide new Airmen

Jim Bailey, 334th Training Squadron air traffic control instructor, served in the Air Force from 1961-1966, where he discovered his passion for air traffic control. If he was asked if he was going to be an instructor in the Air Force at 77 years old, he would’ve told them “no way.”
June 2, 2020
Little Rock AFB's 62nd AS protects training pipeline with airlift assistance

The 62nd Airlift Squadron at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, provided mission essential transportation to hundreds of students across the country in support of AETC’s training pipeline.
Sept. 10, 2019
Offutt ALS: best in the force

The James A. McCoy Airman Leadership School at Offutt Air Force Base was recently named the 2018 ALS of the Year award winner by the Air Education and Training Command.
July 1, 2019
Air Force announces targeted special duty and instructor tour length changes

The Air Force is reducing targeted special duty and instructor tour lengths. The tour length reduction from four to three years for military training instructors, military training leaders, AETC technical training instructors with prefix “T”, “J”, or “X”, and stateside professional military
June 12, 2019
MTL school: developing stronger, better leaders

The Military Training Leader course at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., is responsible for training approximately 120 MTLs per year. Those MTLs are then responsible for training approximately 30,000 Airmen in 49 different locations that fall under Air Education and Training Command.
May 28, 2019
Becoming a student to be a better teacher

When Staff Sgt. Britteny Griffith, a 316th Training Squadron linguist instructor at Goodfellow, was presented with the opportunity to return to school full time to complete her bachelor's degree, she was thrilled.
May 16, 2019
Air University Fellows Program offers two-year developmental opportunity for officers as students, faculty

As the U.S. Air Force’s pinnacle institution, Air University leverages select Airmen for a two-year developmental opportunity on campus as part of the AU Fellows program.
May 7, 2019
Holloman F-16 basic course gets assist from Hill AFB F-35A units

For the last two weeks, F-16 basic course students and instructor pilots from the 311th Fighter Squadron at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, have been flying with and against the Air Force’s first operational F-35A units.
April 11, 2018
362 TRS Airman receives first-ever Army Instructor Badge

For the first time ever, a U.S. Air Force Airman was awarded the Basic Army Instructor Badge at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, April 9, 2018.U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Casey Andersen, 362nd Training Squadron, Detachment 1 HH-60 helicopter crew chief instructor, was teaching a class of Airmen and U.S.