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  • Tech. Sgt. Jacob Peeterse, Tyndall Air Force Base Airmen Leadership School instructor, completes the log clean and press at the Powerhouse of the South competition in Mississippi in April, 2007. Sergeant Peeterse's next strongman competition is slated for Feb. 16 in Columbia, S.C. (Courtesy photo)

    Tyndall instructor tows trucks with muscle power

    A Tyndall Air Force Base Airman Leadership School instructor has been training to lift some heavy logs. Tech. Sgt. Jacob Peeterse isn't moonlighting as a lumberjack. The logs are 265 pounds of solid steel, and he's aiming to lift them from the ground to his chest; to over his head as many times as possible in a short amount of time. Sergeant
  • Don Elder, a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, speaks to guests at the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Jan. 14 at the Sheppard Club. Mr. Elder said the Tuskegee Airmen's pursuit of serving their country as aviators and aircraft mechanics was a precursor to Dr. King's civil rights movement in the decades to come. (U.S. Air Force photo/Sandy Wassenmiller)

    Tuskegee Airmen paved way for King's legacy

    There are two types of people in this world, according to Tuskegee Airman Don Elder: thermometers and thermostats. The Congressional Gold Medal recipient and guest speaker at the Jan. 14 Martin Luther King, Jr., luncheon said he and his fellow Tuskegee Airmen were thermostats because they effected change; thermometers merely state the status quo.
  • Maj. Roy Thrailkill (right) from the Air Education and Training Command, challenges Combat Controller and CBAT-B instructor, Staff Sgt. Joe Pearcy (center), while Tech. Sgt. Christopher Dunstone, Combat Weather Specialist and CBAT-B instructor, acts as an interpreter.

    Common Battlefield Airman Training makes warriors out of Airmen

    The team was winded now. They knew they had to make it to the safe area. All of a sudden, someone called out, "CONTACT FRONT!" Bang. They knew what to do, and with that sound came the chance to show the cadre they hadn't wasted their time. As the first class of the Air Force's newest week-long combat training, Common Battlefield Airman Training
  • Master Sgt. Brett Piers, a retrainee at the 364th Training Squadron's Cable and Antenna Systems Course, and his son, Airman Tyler Pier, an Airman in Training at the 361st TRS, have an opportunity Dec. 20 to be part of a rare feat when they both graduated from technical school. (U.S. Air Force photo/John Ingle)

    Circle of life: Father, son reconnect at Sheppard, graduate on same day

    Brett and Tyler Pier agreed they lost opportunities in earlier years to connect like a father and son should. Missed high school football games, dances and just spending time together are a few of the moments that lacked one or the other because of deployments, divorce and other commitments. But, it's funny how life comes about full circle. Master
  • SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- Airman 1st Class Yi Liu immigrated from China to the United States in 2003 when she was 21 years old. Shortly after, she joined the Air Force. She is now assigned to the 379th Expeditionary Services Squadron at a forward-deployed location. (U.S. Air Force photo)

    Sky is the limit for Goodfellow Airman

    Though most Airmen are familiar with the idea of receiving gifts in December, one of Goodfellow's Airmen received her best present the day before Thanksgiving. In Senior Airman Yi Liu's journal, which she started three years ago as a services apprentice, are the words "I want to be a linguist." In that same journal, she talks about how she yearns
  • Fernando Cortez, curator of the History and Traditions Museum at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, accepts a photo from Eugene Clary on Nov. 16, while his son, Maj. Gen. David Clary, Air Combat Command vice commander, and Col. Eric Wilbur, 37th Training Wing vice commander, look on. Mr. Clary's donation is a rare vintage photograph of himself in one of the first basic military training classes held at Lackland, dating back to 1947. (USAF photo by Alan Boedeker)

    Frozen in time by the click of a button

    A rare photograph of one of the first Air Force Basic Military Training graduating classes, dating back to the 1940s, will soon be displayed at the Lackland Museum of History and Traditions thanks to a thoughtful, soft-spoken 77-year-old retired veteran. Eugene Clary was a teenager committed to serving his country and pursing a medical career when
  • Master Sgt. Dale C. Filsell, services superintendent for Detachment 1 of the Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers, gives an initial briefing to a group of services students at the Silver Flag training area here Oct. 17. Sergeant Filsell has been at Tyndall for more then 4 years. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Timothy R. Capling)

    Red Horse warrior takes on new kind of battle

    He walked into a doctor's office with one problem, minor back pain. He walked out with a whole world of problems stemming from a newly diagnosed life-threatening disease. However, he also found a strong will to fight. In November 2005, Master Sgt. Dale Filsell, the services superintendent for Detachment 1 of the 823rd Rapid Engineer Deployable
  • Flags flap in the wind and Air Force Junior ROTC members stand fast, ready to take their spots during the half time performance of the football game Oct. 6 between Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls and West Texas A&M from Canyon, Texas. Thousands of Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors and possibly future Airmen were honored during MSU's Salute to the Military. (U.S. Air Force photo/Mike Litteken)

    A time to serve, a time to honor

    At first glance it was nothing more than a few hundred -- possibly a thousand -- gathered on a North Texas football field Oct. 6 at half time. By this time, most fans would've been heading down to the nearest concession stand to quench their thirst or relieve the hunger pangs they've been fighting since the opening kickoff ... especially after an

  • Airman's character grows from homeless experience

    The Air Force attracts different people with different backgrounds; however, few people have a story as extraordinary as Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Man. "I used to live on the streets of India. I was homeless," Sergeant Man said, who is a chaplain's assistant for the 37th Training Wing at Lackland Air Force Base. Sergeant Man does not know where she was

  • Man answers call to save a life

    When Adrian Sibayan decided to pick up a ringing phone on his way out the door this summer, he had no idea that answering the call would put him in a life-or-death situation. But that's exactly what happened when he heard the voice of a frantic mother trying to save her son's life. A mother's nightmareFor Suzy Haudenshild, it all began with a
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