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  • Tyndall instructor tows trucks with muscle power

    A Tyndall Air Force Base Airman Leadership School instructor has been training to lift some heavy logs. Tech. Sgt. Jacob Peeterse isn't moonlighting as a lumberjack. The logs are 265 pounds of solid steel, and he's aiming to lift them from the ground to his chest; to over his head as many times as

  • Tuskegee Airmen paved way for King's legacy

    There are two types of people in this world, according to Tuskegee Airman Don Elder: thermometers and thermostats. The Congressional Gold Medal recipient and guest speaker at the Jan. 14 Martin Luther King, Jr., luncheon said he and his fellow Tuskegee Airmen were thermostats because they effected

  • Common Battlefield Airman Training makes warriors out of Airmen

    The team was winded now. They knew they had to make it to the safe area. All of a sudden, someone called out, "CONTACT FRONT!" Bang. They knew what to do, and with that sound came the chance to show the cadre they hadn't wasted their time. As the first class of the Air Force's newest week-long

  • Circle of life: Father, son reconnect at Sheppard, graduate on same day

    Brett and Tyler Pier agreed they lost opportunities in earlier years to connect like a father and son should. Missed high school football games, dances and just spending time together are a few of the moments that lacked one or the other because of deployments, divorce and other commitments. But,

  • Sky is the limit for Goodfellow Airman

    Though most Airmen are familiar with the idea of receiving gifts in December, one of Goodfellow's Airmen received her best present the day before Thanksgiving. In Senior Airman Yi Liu's journal, which she started three years ago as a services apprentice, are the words "I want to be a linguist." In

  • Frozen in time by the click of a button

    A rare photograph of one of the first Air Force Basic Military Training graduating classes, dating back to the 1940s, will soon be displayed at the Lackland Museum of History and Traditions thanks to a thoughtful, soft-spoken 77-year-old retired veteran. Eugene Clary was a teenager committed to

  • Red Horse warrior takes on new kind of battle

    He walked into a doctor's office with one problem, minor back pain. He walked out with a whole world of problems stemming from a newly diagnosed life-threatening disease. However, he also found a strong will to fight. In November 2005, Master Sgt. Dale Filsell, the services superintendent for

  • A time to serve, a time to honor

    At first glance it was nothing more than a few hundred -- possibly a thousand -- gathered on a North Texas football field Oct. 6 at half time. By this time, most fans would've been heading down to the nearest concession stand to quench their thirst or relieve the hunger pangs they've been fighting

  • Airman's character grows from homeless experience

    The Air Force attracts different people with different backgrounds; however, few people have a story as extraordinary as Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Man. "I used to live on the streets of India. I was homeless," Sergeant Man said, who is a chaplain's assistant for the 37th Training Wing at Lackland Air

  • Man answers call to save a life

    When Adrian Sibayan decided to pick up a ringing phone on his way out the door this summer, he had no idea that answering the call would put him in a life-or-death situation. But that's exactly what happened when he heard the voice of a frantic mother trying to save her son's life. A mother's

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