Sheppard Air Force Base

Airman Christina Nunez, a 361st Training Squadron aircrew flight equipment apprentice course graduate from Hammond, Indiana, snips some thread on a cloth face cover at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, April 7, 2020. Nunez and Airmen volunteers are fabricating cloth face covers in response to a Defense Department directive for all military and civilian members, their families and contractors to wear the precautionary barrier when social distancing isn't practical or maintainable. The group will make several thousand face covers for those on Sheppard AFB. (U.S. Air Force photo by John Ingle)

Facing Reality

Sheppard Airmen make cloth face covers to combat COVID-19

Sheppard AFB Local Updates graphic (U.S. Air Force graphic by Will Jaster)

April 8, 2020

Airman Michael Herrera-Bradford, 362nd Training Squadron crew chief apprentice course students, helps stock shelves at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, April 2, 2020. On March 25, 2020 all Department of Defense commissaries and other facilities were deemed mission essential. To help out those who work the hardest to supply the base, these Airmen in Training were sent from their squadrons to help with what they could. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Pedro Tenorio)

Stocked and Loaded

Airmen-in-Training help stock Commissary shelves during crisis

Commissary staff in Jacksonville, Florida, serve customers while praticing social distancing.

Commissaries, support facilities designated mission-critical

The Defense Commissary Agency’s stores, central distribution centers and its central meat processing plant have been designated mission-critical in DOD’s response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

A PSA about hand washing that takes place in the Public Affairs office.

Bro, did you wash your hands today?

82nd Security Forces Squadron personnel demonstrate the "no-touch" identification card check now enforced at the gates to remove one more method of transferring the coronavirus, or Covid-19, at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, March 15, 2020. Follow the orders of entry controllers when entering Sheppard AFB to protect them and you from transmission. (U.S. Air Force photo 2nd Lt. Megan Morrissey)

Additional Measures

SFS implements base access restrictions to combat COVID-19

Basic Military Training graduates off load from a plane at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, March 27, 2020. Usually the newest Airmen will arrive by bus to Sheppard, but to mitigate exposure Air Education and Training command opted to transport them via air lift. The airlines are contracted with the Air Force to pick up the Airmen in Lackland and transport them to Sheppard, Keesler AFB and other training bases. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Pedro Tenorio)

Texas Two Step

AF airlifts BMT grads to Sheppard, other training locations

The fitness center has purchased two XCaliber Containers located at both running tracks. These were placed for individuals to continue and enhance their workout sessions. Inside the containers there are numerous items that would allow personnel to workout but outside where the six-feet social distancing standard can be met with ease.(U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Robert L. McIlrath)

Fit to Fight COVID-19

Fitness containers placed at tracks to safely aid in workouts

Coronavirus Disease 2019 Graphic. (U.S. Air Force Graphic by Rosario "Charo" Gutierrez)

Sheppard announces first confirmed COVID-19 positive case

In this together

Bell urges caution, patience during national emergency

Sheppard Top Stories

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