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  • KIR focus week to run April 8-13

    The next "Keep it Rollin'" Focus Week will run here April 8-13 and will include an 82nd Training Wing commander's call at the base theater. In addition, this quarter's special guest speaker will be Angel Tucker, who will present three seminars on how to use individual's personality strengths in

  • C-130 maintenance training team helps Royal Thai AF counterparts

    A mobile training team from the 373rd Training Squadron's Field Training Detachment 4 returned here March 9 from a month-long deployment to Thailand providing C-130 maintenance training to the Royal Thai Air Force.Nine members of the field training detachment (FTD) made up the team of instructors

  • 65th ENJJPT Steering Committee ends on high note

    The Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program concluded its semi-annual Steering Committee meeting here March 22 amidst expectation of extending the Memorandum of Understanding to keep the ENJJPT program at Sheppard. The 65th Steering Committee addressed such issues as training curriculum,

  • 366 TRS Army Training Manager is "Wingman of Choice" for March 25-29

    Sgt. 1st Class Johnny A. Jara of the 366th Training Squadron was named the the 82nd TRW "Commander's Wingman of Choice" award winner for the week of March 25-29.The 82nd Training Wing "Commander's Wingman of Choice" award program is the commander's way of acknowledging Airmen for a job well done and

  • 80th FTW commander leaves his mark

    Col. Dieter Bareihs, 80th Flying Training Wing commander, is relinquishing command here March 28, but the rewards of his command over the past nearly two years will remain with the wing for a long time to come. During his tenure as commander, Bareihs oversaw the graduation of 319 pilots for the NATO

  • Fisher is 82 TRW commander's "Wingman of Choice" for March 18-22

    Beverly Fisher of the 363rd Training Squadron was named the the 82nd TRW "Commander's Wingman of Choice" award winner for the week of March 18-22.The 82nd Training Wing "Commander's Wingman of Choice" award program is the commander's way of acknowledging Airmen for a job well done and to recognize

  • Running and Gunning: Air Force EOD and civilian SWAT conduct joint exercises

    Members of the 366th Training Squadron's Explosive Ordinance Disposal flight here and the Wichita Falls Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team took part in a a joint training exercise at a civilian law enforcement shooting range March 14. The objective of the exercise was to increase tactical

  • Past and Present: 366 TRS student uses legacy as motivation

    The Khmer rouge. A brutal Cambodian party that led a policy of social engineering and genocide by the thousands plunged a country into chaos between 1975 to 1979. Out of this, droves of government exiles and refugees fled the country in an effort to seek asylum from their campaign. Separated from

  • Blazing a trail: ENJJPTs 1st female flying training squadron commander

    As the roar of a jet cuts through the pale azure sky, it slowly becomes a speck in the horizon as it climbs higher in altitude. For Lt. Col. Andrea Themely, the first-ever female commander of a flying training squadron in the 32-year history of the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program, the