• The New Year is a great time to take control of your own health

    A new year can mean new opportunities, new discoveries and maybe a few new goals. While the New Year’s Resolution is a common tradition, many of them get abandoned long before the new year is gone again. Setting goals for a healthier you is something everyone can do, if you do it right.

  • Program helps trainees become citizens

    The wind was picking up and the temperature was colder than expected for a San Antonio morning as the basic military training retreat ceremony began Dec. 8, 2016, at Joint Base San Antonio – Lackland, Texas. Amid the brush of jackets and the murmurs of the crowd, a lone trainee stood at attention,

  • MTLs, instructors don't 'leave an Airman behind' during holiday season

    Master Sgt. Kelli Jackson and Staff Sgt. Derius Jackson know their job as military training leaders, or MTLs, is critical to the development of the Air Force’s newest Airmen. Sporting a blue aiguillette, or rope, as an identifier, MTLs across the Air Force are charged with helping new Airmen

  • Diabetics: Don’t heat the feet

    Winter is here and South Texas is enjoying the season while trying to stay warm. But in spite of wool socks and heavier shoes, feet might get cold and people could be tempted to warm them. Everybody, especially people with diabetes, must take caution to prevent burns.

  • Women’s health clinic open to all women

    Upon entering the Women’s Health Clinic waiting room at the Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center and seeing expectant mothers and their spouses, it is easy to think of the clinic strictly as the pregnancy clinic. But the world of women’s health encompasses much more than pregnancy, and the staff

  • MTI gives trainees a dose of reality at BEAST site

    Basic Military Training might give Airmen the tools to succeed in their career field, but the Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills Training site – the BEAST – gives them a much simpler gift: the tools to survive deployment.The lifeblood of the BEAST is military training instructors like Staff Sgt.

  • Hanukkah: Being a light in the darkness

    Hanukkah, which is celebrated this year from sundown Dec. 24 to sundown Jan. 1, is known as the Festival of Lights. It is a time when Jews around the world celebrate the miracle of the Maccabees, the leaders of the Jewish rebel army, defeating the Syrian-Greek Empire and finding only enough pure oil

  • JBSA taxi provides services for members on official business

    When members at Joint Base San Antonio locations need a ride for work-related functions, they call on the 502nd Logistics Readiness Squadron military taxi to help them get to their destination.Utilizing passenger vans, the 502nd LRS military taxi provides transportation for active-duty members,

  • JBSA offers chapel services for holiday season

    Joint Base San Antonio chapels have announced the following holiday services for 2016: Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam HoustonAll services will be held at the Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Main Post Chapel, 1605 Wilson Way, or the Dodd Field Chapel, 5584 Dodd Blvd., building 1721.For more