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  • Aviators successfully return evacuated aircraft home

    The 33 aircraft evacuated to Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph in anticipation of Hurricane Isaac returned home to Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., Aug. 31, after an all-clear was given by officials on the ground.The aircraft, which are collectively valued at nearly $141 million, belong to the 479th

  • Airmen survive motorcycle crash thanks to PPE and Wingmen

    "When I woke up in the ambulance, the paramedic took my helmet and shoved it in my face and said 'if you hadn't been wearing this we would be scraping your brains up off the pavement and you would be dead,'" Maj. Adam Travis recalled of a motorcycle ride that could have been his last.This fiscal

  • Randolph's UGT winners reach pinnacle at Air Force level

    Six months after placing first in their categories in Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph Youth Programs' You Got Talent (UGT) Family and Teen Talent Contest, three young performers are tops in the Air Force and await an opportunity to perform with the Tops in Blue entertainment troupe.Fifteen-year-old

  • U.S. service members participate in Operation Good Samaritan

    Imagine not knowing if your next meal was guaranteed. You sleep in a room packed with other children, there is no running water, your bathroom is just a hole in the ground and to top it off you have no parents.The conditions above are exactly how the 23 children of the Good Samaritan Orphanage were

  • Maxwell officer builds historical database

    What started as a solution to an information collection problem six years ago, has grown into a substantial database that documents air power through almost 100 years of conflicts. The database, known as THOR - Theater History of Operations Reports - is the brainchild of Lt. Col. Jenns Robertson,

  • Diagnosed with disorder ... Airman fights to stay

    It normally takes a trainee 8.5 weeks to complete Air Force Basic Military Training. For one recent graduate, it took overcoming Guillain-Barre Syndrome to become an Airman, graduating six months after his arrival at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.In his fourth week of basic training last December,

  • 730th AMTS integration helps develop cost-conscious culture

    An Air Force Reserve squadron recently re-activated and integrated into the 97th Air Mobility Wing. This integration embraces the total force concept and also makes the base more cost efficient."Total Force Integration was designed to be a cost efficiency initiative and an effort designed to show

  • CCAF Turns 40

    Recently the Community College of the Air Force hosted an open house honoring the college's 40th anniversary. The CCAF concept evolved in the early 1970s as a means of gaining recognition for Air Force training. Led by Lt. Gen. George B. Simler, commander of Air Training Command, Air Force

  • Join the C3 discussion

    The commander of Air Education and Training Command has determined AETC will not have a single penny to waste when it comes to developing world-class Airmen."As a command, we have a once in a generation opportunity to dramatically improve the way we develop Airmen by rethinking the way we recruit,

  • Driving drunk incurs a hefty price - literally

    It's 2:15 a.m. and the bar just closed. An Airman and his wingmen stumble out to their vehicle. The designated driver tells the group he had a few beers, but he doesn't feel drunk. They all pile into the vehicle and begin driving toward the base. As the driver messes with the radio, he misses a stop

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