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Aug. 1, 2019
Retired MWDs looking for family, homes, couches

Thousands of Military Working Dogs are stationed around the world placing themselves in harm’s way detecting bombs, land mines and subduing threatening people; all in the name of keeping Americans safe. Eventually, these canines retire and some can be adopted by the public to live as a couch potato.
July 31, 2019
When a military working dog tells her story

Daria, a military working dog with the 60th Security Forces Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, California, tells us what it's like as the new dog in the squad.
July 31, 2019
When a military working dog tells her story

Daria, a military working dog with the 60th Security Forces Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, California, tells us what it's like as the new dog in the squad.
July 12, 2019
5 ‘First of the Finest’ UPT graduates visit AETC Base 50 years later

Five classmates from the first Undergraduate Pilot Training Class toured their old home, Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, July 3.
July 10, 2019
Kwast salutes AETC team for "failing forward" in learning, innovation

In the nearly two years since Lt. Gen. Steve Kwast took command of Air Education and Training Command, there has been change across many fronts of the Air Force’s recruiting, training and education enterprise.
July 10, 2019
AETC commander guest on "Developing Mach-21 Airmen" pod

Lt. Gen. Steve Kwast is the featured guest on the latest episode of "Developing Mach-21 Airmen," Air Education and Training Command's podcast series, released July 8, 2019.
July 9, 2019
First BMT trainees experience M-4 training and qualification

Members of the 37th Training Support Squadron Combat Weapons Flight reopened the newly renovated Combat Arms Training Range at the JBSA-Lackland Medina Training Annex July 8, 2019.BMT trainees were the first to experience M-4 carbine Weapons Familiarization Course at the range, which closed in
July 3, 2019
JBSA hosts 4th annual Western Hemisphere Exchange Symposium

The Inter-American Air Forces Academy here welcomed foreign mission partners for the 4th annual Western Hemisphere Exchange Symposium at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland May 19-24. Delegates from 17 countries attended the WHES, which is an international exchange on how various countries respond to
June 10, 2019
Air Force Basic Military Training continues to fine-tune program with major modernizations

The opportunity for an Airman to leave Basic Military Training fully-qualified on the M4 rifle is just one of the new tactics being implemented as part of the recent changes to curriculum centered on readiness and lethality, airmanship, fitness and the warrior ethos.
June 7, 2019
'Port Dawgs' hold annual remembrance run for fallen

Members of the Air Force air transportation community, also known as "Port Dawgs," gathered at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland with their families to honor fallen aerial porters with the 6th annual Port Dawg Remembrance Run May 18. Aerial porters conducted memorial runs across the Air Force as a