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  • Former 82nd TRW vice commander returns from deployment, shares experiences

    Former 82nd Training Wing Vice Commander Colonel Lansen Conley recently returned from a 365-day deployment to Afghanistan and shared his experiences there after speaking at the 82nd TRW POW/MIA day luncheon. The colonel, currently assigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, spent the last year as

  • VPP team assesses safety and health

    Vance Lineberger, secretary of the Air Force's Office of Installations, Environment and Logistics displayed Sheppard's Voluntary Protection Program gap analysis graph Sept. 19 during a visit to assess Sheppard's safety and health in the work force. The graph shows how Sheppard is doing in

  • MPF customer service to close for upgrades

    The Military Personnel Flight's Customer Service office will close Sept. 24-25 for a systems upgrade to provide increase security measures for personnel. The Real-Time Automated Personnel Identification System, or RAPIDS, is part of Homeland Security Presidential Direction 12, an initiative that is

  • Sheppard remembers POW/MIA troops

    Sheppard honored all prisoners of war and troops missing in action from the past present and future Sept. 18 during five separate events. Col. David Petersen, 80th Flying Training Wing commander and speaker at a wreath laying ceremony said, it's not just a one day a year event, Airmen remember POW

  • Changes to keep ENJJPT viable option for partners

    The landscape of the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program was the topic of discussion Sept. 8-12 as members of the program's steering committee met in Sevilla, Spain. Col. David Petersen, commander of the 80th Flying Training Wing and ENJJPT, said potential organizational and physical changes

  • Air Force develops plan for filling unmanned aircraft system positions

    The Air Force is taking a two-pronged approach to address the increasing need for pilots of unmanned aircraft systems in Afghanistan and Iraq, an Air Force official said recently. The first approach will use a small percentage of Undergraduate Pilot Training graduates for the short term. The second

  • AETC command chief shares thoughts on new duties

    Chief Master Sgt. Robert Tappana, Air Education Training Command command chief, shared his thoughts on his new position and some aspects of Air Force training during a recent visit to Team Sheppard. Chief Tappana said his main goal was to serve Airmen well. "The AETC command chief is not in charge

  • Former Cowboy player inspires Sheppard

    Herschel Walker, 1982 Heisman Trophy winner and former Dallas Cowboy running back shared his experiences suffering from dissociative identity disorder during a motivational speech Sept. 11. Mr. Walker said he managed about 12 different personalities he had suppressed from being bullied and abused