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  • Profiles in Leadership Vol. V

    AFRC highlights Sheppard Airman in 'Profiles in Leadership'

    Senior Master Sgt. Vianca Contreras, 97th Flying Training Squadron at Sheppard AFB, was one of two members of the 340th Flying Training Group featured in the Air Force Reserve Command's Profiles in Leadership, Volume 5.
  • Lee Cisco, 982nd Maintenance Squadron model maker inspector, pries off freshly printed surgical mask straps at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, April 7, 2020. Cisco and other members of the 982nd MXS employed 3D printers already used for creating parts for the training environment and produced face shield brackets and mask straps for the fight against COVID-19. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Robert L. McIlrath)

    982nd MXS joins fight against COVID-19

    Members from the 982nd Maintenance Squadron here put their 3D printing capabilities to use to aid in the fight against COVID-19.
  • Airman David N. Serrano aces 363rd TRS's maintenance management production apprentice course

    Serrano aces maintenance management production course

    Airman David N. Serrano graduated the 363rd Training Squadron’s maintenance management production apprentice course April 3, 2020, achieving perfect score throughout the syllabus.
  • T-6A Texan II training mission

    'Guinea pig' class conquers innovation, COVID-19 en route to graduation

    Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program Class 20-04 has endured unique circumstances during their trek to earn their pilot wings, which began Feb. 26, 2019. Perhaps no other class in the nearly 40-year history of the 80th Flying Training Wing program has faced the traditional trials while also navigating the unknowns of game-changing innovation as well as a global pandemic.
  • Ace Award

    Jordanian Airman achieves rare AGE course ace

    SHEPPARD AIR FORCE BASE, Texas – A member of the Jordanian air force recently graduated from the 361st Training Squadron’s aerospace ground equipment course while achieving a perfect score on every block test
  • 82nd MDG laboratory BioFire test equipment

    Sheppard 1 of 5 AETC bases to use new COVID-19 test kits

    Sheppard AFB is one of five bases in Air Education and Training Command selected to receive new BioFire UEA test kits, which will knock down the turnaround time for COVID-19 results to potentially minutes instead of days, according to AETC.
  • Face shield brackets printed from a 3D printer receive the final parts to make them functional and ready for use at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, April 7, 2020. The shields were distributed to multiple agencies across Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Robert L. McIlrath)

    363rd TRS aids in fight against COVID-19

    With most cities across the country issuing stay-at-home orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people can only sit at home and wait it out. But others take matters into their own hands to try and make a difference.
  • Sheppard Airmen make cloth face covers to combat COVID-19

    Sheppard grads make face covers to combat COVID-19

    Aircrew flight equipment and other aircraft maintenance career field graduates have put their sewing skills to work to create thousands of cloth face covers out of garments like old Battle Dress Uniforms and Airman Battle Uniforms to recently discarded Operational Camouflage Pattern uniforms. The race to provide another precautionary measure to the combat toolkit against COVID-19 began in earnest April 6, 2020, at the 361st Training Squadron schoolhouse.
  • From left, Airman 1st Class Kyle Mason, Airman Bryce Jones and Airman Jackson Cribb, 362nd Training Squadron crew chief apprentice course students, help 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 & Loaded: Airmen-in-Training aid Commissary

    On April 2, 2020, 362nd Training Squadron Airmen in Training were sent to Sheppard AFB’s commissary, which was deemed mission essential, to help restock shelves.
  • April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

    'Stand Up for MilKids' focus of Child Abuse Prevention Month in April

    This Child Abuse Prevention Month, the Department of Defense asks all members of the military community to Stand Up for MilKids by committing to be a positive presence in their lives so they can grow up healthy and safe.
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