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  • F-35 Avionics pipeline change saves $2.2M, cuts training days in half

    F-35 Avionics pipeline change saves $2.2M, cuts training days in halfA year-long effort to streamline the initial skills training pipeline for F-35 avionics technicians resulted in a 47 percent reduction in training days and an estimated $2.2 million savings in student-man-year costs

  • $6.5M Wi-Fi project nears completion

    A $6.5 million project to bring wireless internet service to Sheppard training facilities is nearing completion, with full operational capability targeted for early next year.

  • Faculty development initiative kicks off at 82nd TRW

    The 82nd Training Wing made a major investment in the future of that mission Nov. 18 with its first-ever faculty development day with a goal of pouring new ideas and methodologies into the almost 2,300 educators who teach and train the tens of thousands of Airmen coming through Sheppard’s classrooms

  • Sheppard Airman honors fallen Marine, has solid showing in 47th MCM

    Second Lt. Grace Tinkey, a student awaiting pilot training at the 80th Flying Training Wing, ran the 47th Marine Corps Marathon in Arlington, Virginia, Oct. 30, 2022, in honor of her friend and fallen hero Marine Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, who was killed on Aug. 26, 2021, when a suicide bomb went off in at

  • Air Force Chief of Staff visits Sheppard Air Force Base

    U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., and his wife,  Sharene Brown, visited Sheppard Air Force Base Oct. 6, 2022, to meet with Airmen and see how the base’s two wings are accelerating change in technical and flying training.“If we’re going to continue to be the most respected Air Force

  • Advance Force Development: Updated, modern GITAs enhance technical training

    Sheppard AFB has improved a specific aspect, or tool, of advancing its force development piece over the past few years in a very particular way as it has brought on much-needed upgrades to its ground instructional training aircraft, or GITA, fleet, the aircraft on which all of the Air Force’s new