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  • New Airman Training Center opens at JBSA-Lackland

    First of the New Airman Training Center dormitory and dining/classroom facilities opens at JBSA-Lackland replacing aging facilities. The 323rd Training Squadron moved from the old to new dorms Dec. 14, 2012.
  • Master Sgt. Melissa Holliday, a Military Training Instructor with the 737th Training Support Squadron unloaded a portion of the gifts for Operation Grayson Square. Military Training Instructors and other members of the 737th Training Group played Santa at a local skilled nursing facility delivering gifts to 84 residents this season. The 737th Training Group has been "elfing it up" with Operation Grayson Square since 1999. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Melinda Mueller)

    737th Training Group members elf it up

    During the holiday season, members of the 737th Training Group took time out of the busy training schedule to spread holiday cheer at Grayson Square Health Care Center, which provides extended-stay nursing care to seniors with varying levels of disabilities in San Antonio.Since 1999, members of the training group have made it a tradition to give
  • Airman Cody Kirkum, Vehicle and Vehicular Maintenance Apprentice, is troubleshooting a malfunction on a Humvee at the 344th Training Squadron Det. 1, Vehicle Management Schoolhouse in Port Hueneme, Calif. This detachment educates over 1,500 students. Though many arrive directly from Air Force Basic Training, they can also be civilians, international students and members of other military services. This world-class training includes basic and advanced fire truck, material handling equipment, vehicle & equipment maintenance, and vehicle management & analysis courses. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Tech. Sgt. Thomas Kessler)

    Holiday Break for Students

    It's time to lock up the toolboxes, close the student study guides, and hang up the Air Force Uniform. It's time for a holiday break for the 344th Training Squadron Detachment 1, Vehicle Management Schoolhouse in Port Hueneme Naval Base, Calif. The two-week pause will give students a chance to visit family and friends all over the nation, flying
  • Maj. Saidin, Egyptian Army (left), stands next to his classmate and wingman, Maj. Skupnjak, from the Montenegro Army. (U.S. Air Force Courtesy Photo)

    International students epitomize wingmanship

    The bond developed between two international students and was forever sealed because of what happened during a Defense Language Institute-English Language Course Field Studies Program weekend trip to Houston.Egyptian Maj. Wael Mahmoud Thabit Saidin showed a fellow student, Montenegrin Maj. Krunoslav Skupnjak,the true meaning of being aWingman
  • Retired Chief Master Sgt. Robert Gaylor, the fifth chief master sergeant of the Air Force (with scissors) and keynote speaker for the event, along with senior leaders, members of Richard Etchberger’s family and construction officials get ready to cut the ribbon to open the Airman Training Complex #1. (US Air Force Photo by Mr. Alan Boedeker)

    New training complex benefits Airmen, Air Force

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas (AFNS) -- The Air Force ushered in a new era for basic military training with the first new recruit housing facilities opened in 36 years at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland during ceremonies Dec. 7.The 37th Training Wing opened Airman Training Complex No. 1 and Dining/Classroom Facility No. 1 with a ribbon

  • Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Airman Presented the 2011 Mackay Trophy

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas - During the National Aeronautic Association's annual Fall Awards Banquet, November 15, 2012, in Arlington, Va., Tech. Sergeant Heath W. Culbertson was awarded the 2011 Mackay Trophy.Culbertson was recognized by the Air Force in October when the Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III presented him
  • LT Col Roberto Idoyaga, Paraguay Air Force (left), partner nation instructor at the Inter-American Air Forces Academy, evaluates one of his students Lt. Francisco Morales (right), from Panama on his final check ride during the Instructor Pilot Instrument Procedures course in Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, TX, Dec. 7, 2012. The IPIP course teaches partner nation students who are experienced pilots in their respective branches of services to become instrument flight instructors. Aside from reinforcing the concepts of instrument procedures, the instruction also covers Federal Aviation Administration and International Civil Aviation Organization rules and procedures. (US Air Force Photo by Staff Sgt. Marleah Miller)

    Air Force NCO training takes on international flavor

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO -- LACKLAND, Texas (AFNS) -- Eight Latin American students from Chile, Paraguay and Panama, and two U.S. Air Force students graduated from the Inter-American Air Forces Academy NCO course here Nov. 12, 2012.The INCOA NCO course supports the Inter-American Air Forces Academy's mission to foster enduring Inter-American

  • Help wanted by the dozen

    The JBSA-Lackland Airmen' s Holiday Cookie Caper is a base-wide cookie drive with a lofty goal. The Cookie Caper needs more than 1,500 dozen cookies to provide a taste of home to Airmen who remain in the dorms during the holidays.Members of the base community can drop store bought or home-made cookies at the Freedom Chapel Parking Lot on Monday,
  • The first Airman Training Complex buildings opened December 7, 2012. Plans include a total of eight new dormitory buildings and four buildings that house the dining facility and two floors of modern lecture hall style classrooms. (U.S. Air FOrce Photo/Alan Boedeker)

    First new Air Force Basic Training dorm in 36 years opens

  • Thrift Savings Plan

    Thrift savings plan contribution limits increase in 2013

    The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board has announced the 2013 elective deferral limit for regular Thrift Savings Plan contributions increased from $17,000 to $17,500 for 2013, Air Force Personnel Center officials said. The TSP catch-up plan contribution limit will remain at $5,500. TSP is a long-term retirement savings plan which allows
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