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  • Sheppard officials test synthetic fuels

    The Air Force Petroleum Agency is finalizing preparations for field testing of a 50/50 blend of JP-8 and synthetic jet fuel at the 364th Training Squadron fuels training complex here. Alternative Fuels Certification Office officials at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, said synthetic fuel blend

  • Quarterly Awards Winners

    The 82nd Training Wing recognizes its winners of the Wing quarterly awards. The winners are as follows: -1st Lt. Daniel Chavez, 882nd Training Group, won the Company Grade Officer award. -Senior Master Sgt. Rebecca Brauer, 82nd TRW Wing Staff Agency, won the Senior NCO award. -Tech. Sgt. Lester

  • Sheppard prepares for possible flu breakout

    With two confirmed cases of swine flu in San Antonio, Sheppard public health officials are urging personnel here to take preventative measures now to prevent a spread of the new strain here. Although there have not been any reported cases close to Sheppard, the potential exists because Sheppard

  • Holocaust Luncheon

    Walking into the Sheppard Club a solemn, heartrending atmosphere met almost 300 attendees to the Holocaust luncheon April 23. Guests entered a room walking through a wooden wall with a passage way that lead into a room of disquieting displays linked together by simulated barbed wire. While viewing

  • Student conducts last T-37 simulator mission

    No one wants to be last in anything they do, especially when it comes to the highly-competitive Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program, the world's only multi-nationally run undergraduate pilot training organization. But, 2nd Lt. Evan Negron, a 25-year-old Salem, N.J., native said he didn't mind

  • Back to school: Airmen selected for DoD PA school

    "I'm so frustrated that I think all three of you need to go back to school and learn this," said Brig. Gen. O.G. Mannon, 82nd Training Wing commander, as he handed three Airmen their new textbooks for the Physician's Assistant Training program. Staff Sgt. Jared Files, 383rd Training Squadron, Staff

  • 366th TRS represents Sheppard at Bataan Memorial Death March

    On April 10, 1941, about 75,000 captured American and Filipino troops began a grueling 80-mile, seven-day march across the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines. Their final destinations were prison and labor camps spread across the Japanese empire. Death was a constant reality on the forced march.

  • Sex signals prevent sexual assualt

    Sheppard took the opportunity to inform Airmen about sexual assault awareness with "Sex Signals" presentations April 20. The program uses improvisation and audience interaction to address sensitive and embarrassing topics with an untraditional approach. The two presenters used role playing, humor