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  • Tech. Sgts. Ryan McBride, 19th Maintenance Squadron NCO in charge of metals technology, and Jason Felts, 19th Maintenance Squadron sheet metal production lead, prepare a new 3D printed hydraulic pump bracket for installation at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, June 4, 2020. 3D printing the bracket will make it easier for C-130J maintenance units across the Air Force to obtain the part and eliminate the need to manufacture the part themselves. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jayden Ford)

    Metals tech training the foundation for NCO's innovative success

    Tech. Sgt. Ryan McBride, the noncommissioned officer in charge of the 19th Maintenance Squadron’s metals technology shop at Little Rock AFB, Arkansas, was on the right side of a success story when his idea to have a C-130J Super Hercules hydraulic pump bracket fabricated using 3D printing technology was realized. While the creation of the part did not happen in a traditional metals technology fashion, it still took a foundational knowledge to be able to envision the product from beginning to end.
  • Brig. Gen. Linda Hurry, HAF A4, visits Sheppard AFB

    Hurry: Producing highly qualified, skilled Airmen key to AF logistics mission

    Brig. Gen. Linda Hurry, Director of Logistics for the Air Force, Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Engineering and Force Protection at the Pentagon responsible for organizing, training and equipping the Air Force’s logisticians who maintain and support missions, said during a visit to Sheppard AFB March 5, 2020, that the Air Force needs Airmen to be more agile, able to think on their feet and perform different types of tasks for the situation or environment they’re in.
  • 364th Training Squadron cable and antenna systems apprentice course students climb a communications tower to perform a ground based tower rescue

    2020 to be pivotal year in transformation of maintenance, logistics training

    As the Air Force continues to evolve to meet the challenges of a constantly evolving, Information Age global security environment, the 82nd Training Wing is working to transform maintenance and logistics technical training to deliver the Airmen who will form the heart of that future force.
  • 363rd TRS tests new capstone for MOIC

    Logistics officer course tests new thesis-style capstone event

    The 363rd Training Squadron's Maintenance Officer Intermediate Course at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, which hosts aircraft maintenance and munitions officers, is upping its game by transforming and experimenting with how experienced logisticians are trained on complex logistics principles as well as how they are tested on their understanding of and ability to articulate those concepts during a capstone event.
  • Faculty Development making evolutionary moves in the classroom

    Faculty Development taking evolutionary steps in the classroom

    The 82nd Training Wing Faculty Development Flight’s Basic Instructor Course in Bldg. 920 is heading down a path, where students are able to collaborate in an evolutionary educational workspace.
  • 82nd TRS Faculty Development employs avatar-based counseling technology in BIC

    82nd TRW faculty development tests avatar-based counseling platform

    The 82nd Training Wing Faculty Development Flight is jumping on board the technology train to teach new technical training instructors an old technique in a tried-and-true, yet innovative way – simulation. Basic Instructor Course students are provided an overview of the technology they are about to experience during the roughly 10-minute counseling simulation scenario, which can range in topics from suicide and depression to purposefully failing and mental aptitude.
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    365th TRS rides the AF innovation wave

    Air Force leadership has made a call to action for Airmen to get innovative – to get creative, to take risks, to utilize all their skills and be unafraid to fail.
  • Staff Sgt. Tanner Wentworth, a Nondestructive Inspection Technician of the 101st Air Refueling Wing, Bangor Maine, studies an x-ray, June 25, 2018. The x-rays help detect faults in aircraft and equipment. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Michelle Hopkins)

    359th TRS NDI Tech. Training slated to introduce Computed Radiography to curriculum

    Starting in August 2019, the 359th Training Squadron Detachment 1 at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, will implement a new type of radiography training for their Nondestructive Inspection Airmen.
  • USecAF visits Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas

    Donovan: Readiness, force lethality begins with training

    Under Secretary of the Air Force Matthew P. Donovan, the second highest ranking civilian in the Department of the Air Force, visited Sheppard on Feb. 14, 2019, to see how the Air Force’s largest and most diverse technical and undergraduate pilot training base is employing technology to train today’s Airmen for tomorrow.
  • 359th TRS Det. 1 installs 3D VR paint booth trainer

    Airmen take advantage of virtual reality paint booths

    Members of the 359th Training Squadron’s Detachment 1 recently installed two 3-D virtual reality paint trainers in their schoolhouse, which graduates about 1,200 Airmen annually in the aircraft structural maintenance, low observable aircraft structural maintenance and non-destructive inspection career fields.
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