• It's Holiday Cookie Caper Time

    Monday, Dec., 16, from 6:00-9:00 a.m. at the Freedom Chapel, across from the Main Base Exchange, is the place and time to drop your home made cookies for this year's Cookie Caper. We need bakers and about 10-12 volunteers to package and receive cookie donations in the Chapel Kitchen. About 1,800

  • Former MTI’s road to recovery transformed tragedy into inspiration

    BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AFNS) -- In the pitch blackness and pre-dawn stillness, his booming voice alone was enough to send several dozen new trainees into a frenzied scramble from the comfort of their bunks. His scowl was enough to keep those trainees frozen into a formation of stone

  • Airman earns national rank during U.S. dressage finals

    An Air Force instructor stationed here earned national honors when she and her horse, Mason, placed during the U.S. Dressage Finals Nov. 7-11 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky.Staff Sgt. Amanda Wille, an Air Transportation and Hazardous Material Course, Air Force Traffic Management School,

  • Changes to special duty selection process

    Additional changes to the Air Force special duty program will require Airmen to be nominated and vetted through an approval process that began Oct. 1. The changes to the program allow leadership and commanders to nominate their top performing Airmen for positions such as military training

  • Firearm policy affects carriers across JBSA

    To ensure the safety of the Joint Base San Antonio community, Brig. Gen. Bob LaBrutta, 502nd Air Base Wing and JBSA commander, established a policy Sept. 30, regarding the handling, possession, storage and transportation of privately-owned firearms on all JBSA installations.The policy states that

  • 37th Training Group civilian honored by Department of Defense

    Jenks award story By Mike JosephJBSA-Lackland Public AffairsA 37th Training Support Squadron flight chief recently received a 2013 Secretary of Defense Award for outstanding civilian employees with disabilities.Raymond D. Jenks, 37th TRSS Instructional Technology Unit flight chief at Joint Base San

  • New Airman Training Complex re-dedicated

    The Air Force continued to usher in a new age in housing facilities for basic military training recruits during ceremonies here Wednesday.The 37th Training Wing held a ribbon cutting and re-dedication for Airman Training Complex No. 2, the second dormitory completed in a $900 million construction

  • Local police to issue tickets for blocked intersections at JBSA-Lackland

    The Bexar County Sheriff Department will write tickets for anyone who blocks the intersections outside the Valley Hi gate here. Traffic surveys revealed personnel accessing the base frequently block intersections and obstructing a roadway is a $300 fine. In the mornings, many drivers pass the

  • Military working dog monument dedicated

    The first national monument dedicated to U.S. Military Working Dog teams was unveiled in a ceremony here Monday.The dedication and unveiling ceremony completes a quest to nationally recognize military working dogs and handlers started in 2001 by John Burnam, a Vietnam scout dog handler and author of