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  • Instructor pilots help F-35 pilots dress for success

    The world of technology is constantly changing and to keep up with the times, the Air Force is making major changes in flight suits with the help of Laughlin pilots. One of these changes is the F-35 Lightning II, a single-seat, single-engine, stealth-capable military strike fighter. The F-35 will

  • Civil Air Patrol: Serving, mentoring the local community

    While most local teenagers are enjoying a relaxing spring break, Charlie Wolff and Zack Legate are hard at work at the regional airport. Cadet 2nd Lt. Wolff and Cadet Airman Legate are members of the Civil Air Patrol's Jackson County Composite Squadron. The squadron, made up of more than 20 members,

  • Walk softly, carry a big hat

    Few Airmen are as easily recognizable as military training instructors. Everything about the MTI is larger than life: the shoes, the hat, the badge ... the voice. However, there is one thing about the career field that is less than imposing: its size. The Air Force is currently undermanned when it

  • Vance student pilots' photo 'combine' wings, harvest

    It began with an Oklahoma Wheat Harvest hat from a second-hand store in Enid and ended with Class 09-06 posing for a photo with a John Deere 9770 combine on the Vance AFB flight line March 12. The 18 members of Class 09-06 Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training needed a design for their

  • JROTC cadets soar with Altus refuelers

    Twenty-nine Air Force Junior ROTC cadets from Crooked Oaks High School in Oklahoma City experienced a day in the life of an aircrew member aboard a KC-135 Stratotanker at the 55th Air Refueling Squadron at Altus AFB March 5. The students learned the daily operations of a KC-135 aircrew and witnessed

  • AETC commander re-enlists local recruiter

    A local recruiter was re-enlisted by the commander of Air Education and Training Command at his recruiting office in Columbus, Miss., March 5. Gen. Stephen R. Lorenz, AETC commander, administered the Oath of Enlistment to Staff Sgt. Joshua Jones, 345th Air Force Recruiting Squadron recruiter, as he

  • Deployed dad's return completes 'family puzzle'

    It took them a half second to identify their target, but once they did, Austin and Camryn Burt flew across the Sheppard Elementary School foyer like cruise missiles. When they hit home, they exploded into shouts of, "Daddy!" The siblings didn't see their father, Tech. Sgt. Brad Burt, when they

  • Army green, environmentally green

    A huge truck. Fifty-gallon drums of fuel for a diesel engine. Piles of unserviceable, wrecked office equipment scattered in a seemingly haphazard arrangement. These hardly seem like the props for an ecologically beneficial way of life, but they are - with the help of one Army noncommissioned

  • Service Before Self: Being the 'Ultimate Wingman'

    When was the last time you thought about being an organ donor? How many of us have thought about what will happen to our organs when we die? What if you didn't have to wait until you die to donate an organ? Could you do it? On April 30, 2008, as many of us enjoyed a beautiful spring day, Staff Sgt.

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