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  • Special tactics recruiting takes flight

    The Air Force's ongoing need to fill critically manned special tactics positions -- particularly combat controllers and pararescuemen -- has brought about a unique initiative between Air Force Recruiting Service and Air Force Special Operations Command. A recent agreement between AFRS and the 720th

  • AETC 'Outstanding Airman' nominees get unexpected bonus

    Two nominees for AETC's "Outstanding Airmen" honors got an extra surprise Friday: tickets to the hottest sports event in the country.  Master Sgt. Ramon Conde and Senior Airman Melissa Meredith were each the lucky recipients of a pair of tickets to the NCAA semi-finals and finals,

  • Miami-based recruiter saves life of shooting victim

    A recruiter's former life as an Air Force "cop" helped him save the life of a Miami shooting victim recently. Staff Sgt. Jason Procaccino, a Miami-based recruiter with the 333rd Recruiting Squadron and former security forces member, was in South Beach visiting his brother who was in town for spring

  • Tweet complete: T-37 retires after 39 years of service

    After 39 years of service as the gateway to the sky for more than 10,000 Columbus AFB-based Air Force aviators, the T-37B Tweet formally retired Thursday from Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training. Columbus AFB was the last SUPT base flying the T-37. Vance AFB, Okla., and Laughlin AFB, Texas,

  • Freedom Flyers: Will to survive motivated Air Force pilots

    Every year a group of Airmen united by a shared experience of survival against all odds returns to Randolph Air Force Base in the early spring to celebrate the triumph of the human spirit. They're known as the Freedom Flyers -- Air Force aviators who endured years of physical and mental torture in

  • Educators learn about Air Force opportunities up close

    Out of 100 contacts an Air Force recruiter makes, roughly one makes it to basic training. Of the more than 30.8 million Americans ages 17 to 27, only 27 percent of them would qualify for military service, primarily due to poor aptitude test scores, inability to meet physical standards, insufficient

  • T-6 Texan II officially begins Sheppard's replacement of T-37

    The old workhorse trainer of the Air Force, the T-37B Tweet, officially began its march toward full retirement March 31 when the 80th Flying Training Wing "took the car keys" to its replacement, the T-6A Texan II. Retired Rear Adm. James Maslowski, the vice president of government business for

  • Officials urge caution on social networking Web sites

    Your location on a friend network, a photo on Facebook, a prayer for a deployed family member on a military-based blog -- all posted on the World Wide Web with the intent to bring comfort to loved ones and news to friends. This information may seem harmless, but when put together these puzzle pieces