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  • Family uses technology to cope with deployment separation

    Technology like e-mail, Web video cameras and text-based messaging help bridge the gap between Texas and Afghanistan -- nearly 8,000 miles as the crow flies. Gone are the days from past wars when service members would wait weeks or even months to get letters from home. The letters are now digitized

  • Special tactics Airmen honor fallen teammates

    Before dawn breaks Oct. 6, 12 Airmen will begin a memorial ruck sack march in honor of 12 fallen special tactics teammates killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. An estimated 824 miles later, on Oct. 16, the dozen warrior Airmen will arrive at Hurlburt Field, Fla. Six two-man teams will relay through five

  • Like father like son

    "I heard people from the hangar calling out 'Sergeant Val, Sergeant Val, Sergeant Val,' as we walked by on this base that was foreign to me. I was surprised, so I asked out loud 'Who knows me out here?' My son answered 'Dad this is my playground. I'm in the Air Force too'," said Carlos Valenzuela,

  • Keesler combat controllers honor fallen friends

    It's no secret that it takes a special kind of Airman to be a combat controller. Just ask Staff Sgts. Ashley Spurlin and Adam Malson, 334th Training Squadron combat control instructors. Combat controllers are battlefield Airmen assigned to special tactics squadrons. They are trained special

  • GAMER Day exposes at-risk students to today's Air Force

    Sometimes, all it takes for an at-risk teen to turn his life around is exposure to a new path. That new path is often an exciting career where positive role models are emulated, performance is rewarded with greater responsibility and "being cool" doesn't involve breaking the law or making a host of

  • AETC optimistic toward Afghan National Army Air Corps future

    The Air Education and Training Command International Training and Education deputy director accompanied the Afghan International Training Program manager on a visit to the Afghan national army air corps in August where they observed the current state of in-country training. Col. Scott D. Seavers

  • Off-duty employment procedure

    Airmen pursue off-duty employment for benefits such as extra income, more family insurance or to consume time. A second job can be valuable as long as Airmen acquire it using proper procedures. The Department of Defense 5500 7-R, Joint Ethics Regulation, Section 2-206a, discusses the proper channels

  • SERE fire circle: Getting familiar with survival

    Editor's note: This is the first of an eight-part series on the phases of Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape technical school.The SERE fire circle is a time-honored tradition of Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape specialists. The fire circle is typically beneath a parachute, an iconic

  • Analyzing the force today -- for tomorrow

    Thirty seven individuals tucked away in Hangar 13 on Randolph AFB hold the initial keys to promotions, training and utilization of more than 330,000 Airmen and civilians. Air Education and Training Command's Occupational Analysis Division falls under the command's A2/3/10 or Intelligence,

  • Luke munitions not shooting blanks

    What makes an F-16 Fighting Falcon a force to be reckoned with? Is it the aviator who pilots the aircraft? Partly, yes. Is it the aircraft itself or the people who keep it functioning? Again, partly yes. But it's the bullets, bombs and missiles fired from the F-16 that inflict damage upon the enemy.

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