• Molding yesterday’s trainees into tomorrow’s Airmen

    For Staff Sgt. Jessica Fairchild, a former MTI at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, those long hours were worth it.Six years into her career, Fairchild applied to be a military training instructor. She had dreams to be a teacher and chose to focus that drive into shaping the next generation of

  • 37 TRW kicks off 2017 AFAF

    Col. Roy Collins, 37th Training Wing commander (seated) signs a contribution slip for the Air Force Assistance Fund as Master Sgt. Joseph Aponte, 323rd Training Squadron military training instructor and project officer for the 37th TRW AFAF campaign, looks on April 10, at Joint Base San

  • Airmen’s Week: Changing the Culture of Airmen

    (This is the second in a four-part series highlighting Airmen’s Week and the Military Training Instructors selected to be facilitators of a curriculum striving to inspire professionalism and excellence in the Air Force’s newest Airmen. Tech. Sgt. Roque Martinez is currently assigned to the 326th

  • Landing zone jump, remembrance memorial held for fallen battlefield Airman

    Members of the 37th Training Wing honored the legacy of Lt. Col. William “Bill” Schroeder, former 342 Training Squadron commander at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas April 7, 2017. On April 8, 2016, Schroeder recognized a perilous situation developing and reacted swiftly by putting himself

  • Airmen’s Week: Changing the culture of Airmen

    After the completion of Basic Military Training, but before Airmen depart for their various technical training locations, lies a relatively new, yet crucial program geared toward the betterment of the Air Force: Airmen’s Week. Airmen’s Week is a 31-hour, values-based course with a mission to

  • San Antonio Spurs' Kyle Anderson visits JBSA-Camp Bullis

    Kyle Anderson, a 23-year-old shooting guard for the NBA's San Antonio Spurs, visited Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis March 14 to get a close look at the training Air Force officer and enlisted personnel experience.

  • New AETC video reflects on the value of duty within the First Command

    “Every Airman bears a responsibility – not to self, but to our fellow Airmen, to our country. To ensure that when we hang up our uniform at the end of the day, the world’s greatest Air Force is even greater than before.”These opening lines come from the Profession of Arms Center of Excellence’s

  • Squadron revitalization leads to EPME changes

    The reenlistment and extension ineligibility requirement will be removed from the enlisted professional military education program effective March 15, 2017 according to Air Force officials.