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  • The new face of the Nomad: newsletter moves to cyberspace Monday

    The Nomad newsletter as we know it is about change its colors, making the move to cyberspace. Starting Monday, coverage of 33d Fighter Wing events and personnel will be featured on the wing homepage at http://www.33fw.acc.af.mil. The Nomad will no longer be e-mailed as a newsletter product to 33d FW

  • Wrapped with a bow STEP promotion received for Christmas

    Dec. 25 has a new meaning for one 33d Fighter Wing noncommissioned officer. Tech. Sgt. Mike Wisenbaker, 33d Maintenance Squadron, received master sergeant stripes Monday as a surprise Christmas present. Col. Russ Handy, 33d Fighter Wing Commander, presented Sergeant Wisenbaker the stripes at his

  • Tyndall NCOA renamed after first CMSAF

    Tyndall's NCO Academy was renamed Wednesday to honor the first Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force. The Paul W. Airey NCO Academy dedication ceremony will be remembered as the second greatest thing to happen in the retired chief's professional life, said Chief Airey, only because becoming Chief

  • New IFS facility opens doors to increased training

    On a clear, crisp southern Colorado afternoon, throngs of visitors filed through the front doors of the enormous, immaculate building to see the results of more than six months of renovation work come to completion. But above the buffed tiles and new carpeting on the floor and beyond the brand new

  • Reservists add major adjustment to T-1 training

    Four or five months after graduating from Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance Air Force Base, students from the T-1 tanker and airlift track may very well find themselves flying over not so friendly skies in support of the Global War on Terrorism. Thanks to the efforts of two

  • AETC announces 2006 safety awards

    Air Education and Training Command announced the winners of the fiscal 2006 AETC Safety Awards Dec. 8. The 314th Airlift Wing from Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., took the top unit award, while Master Sgt. Michael Griffith of Lackland AFB, Texas, earned the highest individual honors. "It's not

  • Enlisted aircrew training winds down at Keesler

    Although packers are busy disconnecting and crating equipment, training continues for the last 10 students in the 1A3 airborne mission system specialist course in the 332nd Training Squadron. The last Keesler class graduates Tuesday as part of the transition to the Career Enlisted Aviator Center of

  • Fire school dishes out world-class training

    Sixty-eight training days. 4 a.m. wake-ups and two-mile runs. "Large frame burns" searing at 1,200 degrees. Smoke. Heat. Noise. The firefighter trainees at the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Training Academy at Goodfellow AFB endure exhaustive training in an effort to be the best.