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  • Nomad 1 reflects on past, looks ahead at future

    The Nomads began a new era in January when Col. Todd Harmer took his driver seat position to lead the 33d Fighter Wing from an air superiority wing to the future training wing of the Air Force's next generation multi-role fighter - the F-35 Lightning II. The native of Russell, New York, took command

  • Team Tyndall spouse is Florida's most beautiful Mrs.

    Melissa Behnke is no stranger to the spotlight -- she's a professional actress, singer and dancer who has performed with various celebrities all over the world in theatrical shows, television specials, game shows and movies. She's also the wife of a fighter pilot, an avid community volunteer, and a

  • Brothers in arms

    Military members refer to each other as brothers in arms, but it's literally true for two Goodfellow Airmen. Tech. Sgt. Keith Wallace, a master instructor with the 315th Training Squadron, and Airman 1st Class Alan Morford, 17th Communications Squadron, grew up in a small town in Kentucky, and moved

  • 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

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