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  • Texas Senator visits Sheppard, tours Raptor maintenance training facility

    Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison got a look at the next generation of training at Sheppard July 3 when she toured the state-of-the-art F-22 Raptor Maintenance Training Facility - a project she's quite familiar with. Being the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military

  • Tops in Blue, fireworks at 2008 Freedom Fest

    Celebrate Independence Day with Team Sheppard and the local community from 3-11 p.m. at the Sheppard Clinic grounds. For a full schedule of events please click here. · Games, food and live bands all afternoon. · Airmen in Training performance at 7:30 · Tops in Blue performance at 8 p.m. For more

  • The 4,000-hour man: McGowan reaches milestone in Tweet

    His dreams of flying began when he was a 9-year-old Georgia boy on a peanut farm in 1970, watching aircraft from a nearby air force base take off and land. Those dreams for Air Force Reserve Lt. Col. Bo McGowan culminated in an accomplishment very few fighter pilots can claim - 4,000 flying hours in

  • Sheppard appreciates permanent party Airmen at BBQ

    Permanent party Airmen were shown appreciation at a six-hour barbeque held by the Air Force Sergeants Association and the First Sergeants Council June 20. "Permanent party Airmen are the backbone of most organizations. They're doing their job and doing it well while they train, work on Career

  • Education office helps Airmen continue schooling

    The education of Airmen is of high importance to the Air Force, in fact, it offers a variety of programs to help its Airmen enhance their education - through base education centers. Donna Collins, the education services flight chief said education service's mission is "to provide education

  • SNCOs fill first sergeant position

    They can be referred to as additional duty first sergeants, acting shirts, associate shirts, temporary or t-shirts, and in a teasing manner they are called undershirts. "When they really need my help, all they say is "shirt" and we both know play time is over," said Master Sgt. Ronald Pierce, an

  • Lt. Gen. Marquez visits Sheppard

    Team Sheppard welcomed a piece of living Air Force history when a legend in the maintenance and logistics career fields visited June 3-5. Lt. Gen. Leo Marquez, former deputy chief of staff for logistics and engineering - called by some the father of today's Air Force maintenance field - took the

  • Sheppard instructors teach Bradley ANG Airmen

    Sheppard instructors travelled to Bradley Air National Guard Base to train Airmen from the Connecticut ANG's 103rd Maintenance Squadron to be jet engine mechanics. "Our future is here and now and these students are ensuring our mission and unit maintains an integral part of the nation and state

  • Pilot's legacy continues with posthumous master's degree

    A commencement ceremony June 6 was a time to celebrate the achievements of the 2008 graduates of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Sheppard Air Force Base campus, but it was also a time to honor the legacy of a fallen classmate. Maj. Brad Funk, an instructor pilot who was killed in a T-38 crash