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  • Healthier through helping: Volunteerism adds to life

    There's nothing selfish about self-care. Exercise, a balanced diet, yoga, meditation, and holistic living may be activities pursued by individuals hoping to prolong life, to make existence more comfortable, or to flesh out inner needs for fulfillment; but there's more than one way to crack the

  • Leadership, teamwork focus of SOS training program

    As students at Air University's Squadron Officer School, captains from across the Air Force experience a unique training program. The purpose of the course is to improve student leadership and teamwork skills and it is a mixture of Air Force and private sector academic expertise. The Leadership

  • Pilot Airman honored, awarded wings posthumously

    Just about every parent whose child is participating in one of the Air Force's undergraduate pilot training programs envisions the day they can witness their son or daughter walking the stage, shaking hands and earning their prize - their wings. Such an event was hosted Nov. 7 for the graduation of

  • Archivists are key to finding unexploded WWII bombs

    A division manager for a survey company in Dresden, Germany, often turns to the Air Force Historical Research Agency when companies want to develop land in Germany. The manager, Dietmar Staude, is a geologist and explosive ordnance disposal expert who has studied the records of the British

  • Air Force doctor's persistence leads to diagnosis of rare disease

    A young patient at San Antonio Military Medical Center-South was recently diagnosed with a rare disease that mainly affects African American females. Lakeshia Blueitt, 17-year-old daughter of retired Master Sgt. Curtis Blueitt, started experiencing major changes in her body over a two-week period.

  • Deployed Air Force nurse aims to change Afghanistan med culture

    Working in conditions described as "1940's-style nursing," an Air Force nurse deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan, is helping to bring western medicine to an underdeveloped city. Lt. Col. Susan Bassett, assigned to the 205th Afghan Regional Security Integration Command, is learning the stark reality

  • Two Randolph Airmen earn AETC "Enlisted Aide of Year" awards

    Responsibilities vary for the 2008 Air Education and Training Command Enlisted Aides of the Year, both of whom are stationed here. Senior Enlisted aide, Master Sgt. Greg Krems, and Junior Enlisted aide, Tech. Sgt. Jason Barbour, keep constantly busy at the residences of two of Randolph's top-ranking

  • Base program diverts recyclables from landfill

    Imagine putting trash into a machine and getting cash for it. Would you do it? There are no tricks or gimmicks. Airmen on Luke Air Force Base have discovered their recycling program can benefit offices, the base, local community and environment. "There are programs on base that can benefit members

  • CAP provides rescue resources during emergencies

    When disasters strike, there is a select group of volunteer pilots, search and rescue teams, and trained observers helping those in need. Missing persons, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes and downed aircraft are some of the situations which the Civil Air Patrol responds to at a moment's notice.

  • Passion for teaching drives Iraq-based military training instructor

    When Staff Sgt. Matthew Coltrin graduated from Air Force Basic Military Training six years ago, he always knew he'd be back one day "pushing" his own flight. The military training instructor couldn't have predicted it then, but also he would go to Iraq and help Iraqi BMT instructors push their

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