• July 12 Basic Military Training Honor graduates

    Congratulations to the following 71 Airmen for being selected as honor graduates among the 715 Air Force basic military trainees who graduate Friday: 320th Training SquadronFlight 433Triston Lauck Seth Lilly Adam Nicotra Zachary PerkeyChristopher WatersFlight 444Michelle Loper Riley MayValerie Ramos

  • The Challenge Coin

    Who has their Basic Training military coin on them? I asked this question to our Vehicle Management graduating class from the 344th Training Squadron, Detachment 1, Port Hueneme Calif. To my surprise, out of a class of 13 only five students raised their hands. And when asked why those five airmen

  • AETC bases to conduct June stand-down

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas - Air Education and Training Command bases stand down during the month of June to focus on dignity, trust and respect toward fellow Airmen.Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel issued a directive to each branch of service to use the stand-down to mitigate an ongoing

  • Nemo's New Home

    The Nemo Memorial, pictured above, was dedicated Nov. 15, 2005, to honor the efforts of a military working dog that saved his handler's life during an attack on Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam, Dec. 4, 1966. The Nemo Memorial committee recently completed an initiative to move the memorial to the

  • Who will be AETC King of the Hill?

    A new game focused on the Air Education and Training Command's Cost Conscious Culture initiative is adding a fourth "C" to C3 - competition. King of the Hill, an online game in which AETC members can vote for their favorite AETC C3 ideas, will debut June 10 and run for 42 days. Each day two

  • Hindsight: History in clear rearview

    Take yourself back to 1965; communism threatens the U.S. homeland and President Lyndon B. Johnson - LBJ - faces the challenge of Dr. Martin Luther King and the civic rights movement. But even more pressing is the ever-growing conflict in Asia, or more specifically, Vietnam.On July 21st of that year,

  • Demolition begins on BMT facility

    A part of Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland basic military training history came down in a heap Monday morning as demolition started on Building 6275, one of the last Recruit Housing and Training facilities constructed. Using a "claw," heavy equipment operator Roy Harrell of J.R. Ramon and Sons began

  • 341st Training Squadron honors Boston Bombing victims

    The 341st Training Squadron hosted a 5K Memorial Run/Walk April 26at Stapleton Park to show support for the victims of the Boston Marathonbombings.Staff Sgt. Gregory Mobley, 341st TRS, helped organize the event becausehe has friends who live in the Boston area and knows friends that havefamily

  • Soldiers train at Air Advisor Academy

    Nearly 70 mobilized reserve Soldiers preparing for "advise and assist" missions in Afghanistan trained May 6-10, 2013, at the Air Force Air Advisor Academy.Trainer/mentors assigned to the 174th Infantry Brigade train deploying Airmen on Army Warrior Tasks routinely. The roles reversed thanks to a