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  • Altus supports California firefighting

    A C-17 Globemaster III from the 97th Air Mobility Wing here mobilized yesterday to airlift firefighting equipment and personnel to California in support of ongoing efforts to control the wildfires there. "We flew to San Antonio to pick up Maj. Gen. Thomas Matthews, commander of Operations Command

  • View from the Top: balanced scorecard spells out command's vision

    One Command...One Strategy! Just over two years ago, I challenged my senior leaders to embrace this goal. At that time I set in motion the Balanced Scorecard process - a management tool for our near-term strategy of recruiting, training and educating. The BSC strategy map articulates AETC

  • CV-22 Osprey flies first search and recovery mission

    A CV-22 Osprey assigned to the 58th Special Operations Wing here participated in the aircraft's first search and recovery mission Oct. 5, responding to the fatal crash of a medical aircraft in the mountains of southern Colorado. Airport officials lost contact with the Arizona-based Beechcraft King

  • Airmen tell how they "Do Something Amazing" in space

    In the shadow of Space Launch Complex 41 with the Atlas V rocket perched atop the pad, Mike McCoy, Bandito Brothers film director, interviewed members of the 5th Space Launch Squadron. "So, tell me about your job?" Mike asked in his easy going interview style. This interview, along with many others

  • CAF Day offers glimpse of future for pilots, maintainers

    Undergraduate pilot training students at the 80th Flying Training Wing had an opportunity, Oct. 19, to get up close and personal with their future aircraft during the annual Combat Air Force Day. Capt. Jay Thomas, the event coordinator and an instructor pilot at the 88th Fighter Training Squadron,

  • State-of-the-art Raptor maintenance facility opens

    A new era of training started at Sheppard, Oct. 19, with the opening of the Air Force's F-22A Raptor Maintenance Training Facility. All maintenance training for the nation's newest fighter aircraft will take place in one facility, a new concept in Air Force maintenance training. Airmen from the

  • Guard member, son make a difference

    In a coma, 19-year-old Katie Gleason of Little Rock didn't know Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Sam Macheak or his son, Ross, a 42nd Composite Squadron Civil Air Patrol cadet major, before she slipped into an unresponsive state. They all met Aug. 2, but she doesn't recall it. They helped stabilize her

  • Tuskegee Airmen breathe life into Living History Display

    Five Tuskegee Airmen sat patiently Oct. 20 at Sheppard's 2007 Open House and Air Show, not rushing time, but not wasting it, either. They understood the enormous heritage they molded more than 60 years ago and proudly displayed as part of the Tuskegee Living History Display. It was about breaking