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  • Aircrew flight equipment protect aircrew's lives

    The Aircrew Flight Equipment team of the 80th Flying Training Wing work to support the Air Force mission by paying attention to small equipment details that could have a major impact. "We make sure the pilot's equipment is good to go when they need it," said Staff Sgt. Ricky Yeager, 80th Operations

  • Chaplain Service Institute on target to relocate to Fort Jackson

    The Ira C. Eaker College for Professional Development's Chaplain Service Institute here has been bustling with activity since May 2008 preparing to relocate to a new town.The institute is scheduled to relocate to Fort Jackson, S.C., by fiscal 2010 to join the U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School,

  • Airman rises above personal trials - excels in life, Air Force

    A Randolph Airman attending technical school seven years ago, a few months into her Air Force career, began experiencing intense pain in the lower femur and knee of her right leg. The diagnosis; osteosarcoma, a malignant bone tumor, in her right femur. After months of chemotherapy, surgeries and

  • Memorial Day tribute: Veteran's journey begins, ends at Sheppard

    Master Sgt. Otto Havins was perhaps one of few who began their military career in the U.S. Army Air Corps at Sheppard in the early 1940s and retired when it was an Air Force base. Certainly those years of transition from an extension of the U.S. Army to an independent military service are chocked

  • AF retiree 'kissed by an angel'

    For nearly 43 years, one man has practiced a similar combination of cardio-centric workouts followed by relaxation time in the sauna, a routine which, for the most part, was fairly uneventful for the first 42 of those years. One morning in April, however, soon changed that. "I usually walk about

  • Oklahoma native helps Airmen serve

    One man is making a huge difference in today's Air Force, but many never see him ... people continue to walk by, never noticing he's there. As foot traffic flows through the halls and stairways of the Colonel Burleson Consolidated Support Facility, many people travel past a small office with an

  • Air Force medics provide humanitarian aid to Dominicans

    Long before the Caribbean sun rises above the dusty foothills of the Ocoa Mountains, word spreads throughout this small town that the "miracle workers" are coming. They're on their way. They'll soon be here.Lines of residents form outside the local school waiting for the first signs of the "miracle

  • Pilot-for-a-day youth reunites with pilot mentor

    The 9-year-old enthusiastically chowing down on a hamburger and fries across the table looks like a typical child. A full head of soft, brown hair -- his tan skin accented by a dusting of freckles across his nose. No one would guess that two years earlier, there was doubt that he would live to see

  • Course provides foundation for nuclear surety

    The Air Force maintains a nuclear stockpile as a deterrent against other nations who may wish the United States harm. Nuclear weapons maintenance personnel, officer and enlisted, have the responsibility to make sure that stockpile is kept safe, secure and ready for use, if and when called upon.

  • Airman strives to make a difference

    As Senior Airman Brendan Brustad ran the 2007 Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon, the tragedy inflicted on the families of the 168 people killed in the April 19, 1995 bombing had a strong impact on him. "Something clicked in me, and I wanted to do what I could to help the families," he said.That desire

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