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  • Rampage vs JBSA-Lackland: Hockey team meets AF fitness challenge

    Spurred on by the constant shouts of "Atta boy", "Way to go", "You can do it", or "Just one more," a group of San Antonio professional athletes got a sample of the Air Force fitness assessment Wednesday morning at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.The sounds of encouragement reverberated through the

  • Family Advocacy offers Rx for holiday blues

    Stress, the feeling of being overwhelmed or of not having resources to handle a given situation, will likely affect the Air Force and Department of Defense members this winter season. In the spirit of the upcoming holiday celebrations, Mitzi Wood, 359th Medical Operations Squadron Family Advocacy

  • XXavier: One hard hitting dog

    XXavier is a military working dog with the 47th Security Forces Squadron who, for the past four years, has worked and played here garnering a reputation as the hardest hitting dog in the Department of Defense. XXavier will be leaving Laughlin for the 341st Training Squadron at Lackland Air Force

  • Laughlin student pilot awarded Distinguished Flying Cross

    With smoke still lingering in the air from the rocket's explosion and its crew shaken, the HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter limped through the air, circling above its sister ship. Climbing onto the helicopters side and braving fire the man scanned below in time to see the enemy getting into position.

  • 97th Civil Engineer Squadron aims for perfection

    The 97th Civil Engineer Squadron is serious about its physical training and has almost a perfect passing rate to prove it.Members of the 97th CES are required to meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings for PT and receive their morning announcements. The squadron has 10 physical training leaders.

  • Training America's frontline missile operators

    Along a 45-mile stretch of California coastline is a beach devoid of ocean-front property. You won't find lavish resorts or flashy homes owned by the rich and famous here.Instead, you'll find Airmen training in austere, submarine-like capsules. These above-ground capsules are where Intercontinental

  • Instructor by day, fighter by night

    Maintaining peak physical fitness is an ingrained aspect of Air Force life. It's not just because of "the test" that leers over every Airman's head once or twice a year like a military training instructor demanding more pushups, but because physical fitness keeps Airmen ready and able to achieve

  • Air traffic controllers direct the dance

    An airfield is a continuous dance of aircraft, personnel and vehicles. Sometimes this dance is a slow two-step and other times it is a fast paced Salsa. Working in a tower high above the ground are airfield choreographers, making sure that every move each dancer makes is correct. These rhythm

  • Ceremonial guardsmen render military honors with precision, professionalism

    A special group of Randolph Airmen spend much of their time in the public eye, yet they don't even wear name tags as they perform their duties.Despite their anonymity, they are the face of the Air Force at funerals of active-duty and retired service members, veterans and dignitaries, and at special

  • 7 years in Hanoi: Retired captain reflects on time as Airman POW

    Graduates from one of Lackland's last Officer Candidate School classes, including an honorary class member and former Vietnam prisoner of war, reunited here to commemorate their 50th-year anniversary.Members of OCS Class 62-A, which graduated Sept. 22, 1961, were honored as special guests during the

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