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  • 59th Medical Wing receives 'excellent' UCI rating

    The 59th Medical Wing received an overall "excellent" rating during a Unit Compliance Inspection outbrief conducted at Wilford Hall Medical Center June 23. "It is not often that we see an organization that has no 'unsats' or 'marginals' in any area," said Col. Monty L. Brock, Air Education and

  • SFS team takes aim at competition

    Author Jim Rohn said, "Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals." The fundamentals are just what a team of Security Forces Airmen have in their sights as they train for the 2009 Air Mobility Command Airlift Rodeo at

  • Joint Base San Antonio moves closer toward implementation

    Representatives from the Office of the Secretary of Defense and participating branches of the service met to finalize the way ahead for Randolph, Lackland and Fort Sam Houston during a joint basing workshop hosted by Air Education and Training Command June 9-11. The memorandum of agreement review

  • AETC Future Learning Division 'tweets' for new programs

    Air Education and Training Command's Future Learning Division plummeted into the social networking, micro blogging Web site Twitter last month in an effort to explore the site's potential uses in training today's Airmen for tomorrow. "[The future learning division is] looking into different media

  • Eglin sergeants selected for promotion

    Air Force officials selected 7,724 of 37,172 eligible staff sergeants for promotion to technical sergeant for a selection rate of 20.78 percent. The average score for those selected was 319.69, with an average time in grade and time in service of 5.68 and 10.85 years respectively. The average score

  • Mighty Gorillas meet, say good-bye to Eagle

    During a week-long 58th Fighter Squadron reunion June 14-20, past and present pilots recounted stories of the good 'ol days and shared the disheartening but mission essential fact that 30 years of F-15 Eagle driving will become history this year. "This reunion is important to the 58th FS because we

  • Air Force firefighters protecting Vance during labor dispute

    When he received notification of a deployment to an undisclosed location for an undisclosed amount of time, Senior Master Sgt. Russell Eidenschink's first thought was, "Afghanistan," he said. But the soft-spoken firefighter from Columbus AFB, Miss., didn't go where he expected. Instead, he came to

  • Married couple re-enlists to continue development of young Airmen

    Master Sgts. Scotty and Dana Fogle have been serving their country for more than 18 years and recently extended their careers for five more years at a dual re-enlistment ceremony. "It is very unique to be able to re-enlist two fine master sergeants whom I have known since I've been in the Air

  • A-Team shoots for 'A' rating

    Members of the 97th Maintenance Directorate, or A-Team,  give great attention to the smallest details everyday, and more recently as the maintainers prepare for the 2009 Air Mobility Command Airlift Rodeo. Larry Melton, KC-135 rodeo team chief, has his crew working diligently to preparing aircraft

  • Cadets experience operational Air Force

    Nine cadets from the U.S. Air Force Academy visited Sheppard Air Force Base arriving May 31 to get a taste of what it is like to work in the operational Air Force. The academy breaks the summer cadet program into three, three-week periods. One of those weeks is used to send cadets to either state