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  • Mother and Son

    Stepmother and son share BMT experience

    For most Airmen, the Basic Military Training experience is something their parents can only understand through second-hand accounts.  For Airman 1st Class Tyler Scott and his stepmother Airman 1st Class Kelly Scott, the BMT experience is something they will share and treasure together having graduated only eight weeks apart and being led by the
  • Volunteers unload Christmas trees at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland donated by the Christmas SPIRIT Foundation, FedEx and 18 tree farmers as part of the Trees for Troops program Dec. 7, 2017.

    Trees to Troops delivers Christmas trees

    Many members of Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland community braved the rain and the cold element, waiting outside JBSA-Lackland Outdoor Recreation Dec. 7, to receive a free tree from trees to Troops.
  • The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., tracks Santa’s 2017 yuletide journey.

    NORAD is ready to track Santa’s flight

    The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., is celebrating the 62nd Anniversary of tracking Santa’s yuletide journey.
  • Air Education and Training Command is looking to explore how people learn and making a more efficient path to pilots earning their wings by revolutionizing training through the Pilot Training Next initiative. (U.S. Air Force graphic by Staff Sgt. Chip Pons)

    AETC explores learning possibilities through new pilot training program

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas – Air Education and Training Command is looking to explore how people learn and making a more efficient path to pilots earning their wings by revolutionizing training through the Pilot Training Next initiative. Scheduled to begin in February 2018, the program’s goal exemplifies the command’s concepts of the
  • Air Force basic trainees from Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland wait to be admitted to the JBSA-Lackland Base Exchange Dec. 2 to do some early shopping. About 3,800 trainees were treated to holiday cheer Dec. 2 at the Lackland Exchange, which opened extra early just for them. Typically, trainees are not allowed to visit the Exchange or do much beyond their rigorous assignments.

    JBSA-Lackland Exchange Spreads Holiday Cheer to 3,800 Basic Military Training Recruits

    More than 3,800 trainees were treated to holiday cheer Dec. 2 at the Lackland Exchange, which opened extra early just for them. Typically, trainees are not allowed to visit the Exchange or do much beyond their rigorous assignments.

  • Military, local leaders meet for Joint Base San Antonio Community Partnership Program

    Updates on a variety of community initiatives, as well as a look at the future of automated vehicles in San Antonio, were on the agenda during the latest meeting of the Joint Base San Antonio Public/Public/Public/Private, or P4, Community Partnership Initiative meeting held at the Alamo Area Council of Governments Nov. 30.
  • Students from the Inter-American Air Force Academy’s 837th Training Squadron and 343rd TRS attend a pre-mission briefing at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis as part of their final training exercise Nov. 8, 2017. The students practiced reconnaissance, ambush, searching, and patrolling tactics. This was the first time the 837th TRS and 343rd TRS partnered for joint training.

    IAAFA teams up for first ever joint training exercise

    Students from both the Inter-American Air Force Academy’s 837th Training Squadron and the 37th Training Group's 343rd TRS partnered in the first of many joint military training exercises.
  • U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Malcolm B. Frost, commander of the U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training, speaks during the Council on Recruit Basic Training Nov. 8, 2017 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. The purpose of CORBT is to address common issues across the joint services in recruit basic military training and technical training with the goal of sharing ideas, lessons learned and procedures to improve entry-level enlisted training programs.

    CORBT summit provides joint services insights on recruit basic training

    Representatives from all five branches of the U. S. armed forces, members from British Armed Forces and Australian Defence Force, held a Council on Recruit Basic Training summit Nov. 8-10 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.
  • U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast, commander of Air Education and Training Command, officially addresses the men and women of the First Command for the first time as their commander during a change of command ceremony Nov. 16, 2017, at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. Kwast, a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate, assumed command after spending the last three years as president and commander of Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. (U.S. Air Force photo by Sean Worrell)

    AETC welcomes new commander

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, TEXAS--Members of Air Education and Training Command gathered as the guidon was passed from Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson to Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast, signifying the formal transfer of authority and responsibility from one commander to another in a ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Nov. 16.  Air Force Chief of
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