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  • Sheppard members taking advantage of ABC program

    Forty Sheppard Airmen are taking advantage of a program that will earn them a bachelor degree through participating universities, including two on base. Linda Harrison, 82 Mission Support Squadron guidance counselor, said with the Air University Associate-to-Baccalaureate Cooperative program, active

  • Mmmm Mmmm Good: Sheppard food services to compete for AF Hennessy Award

    Sheppard's food services earned the opportunity to compete for the 2007 John L. Hennessy Award for best operation in the Air Force when it was recently named the best in the command. When asked how Sheppard pulled off the win in Air Education and Training Command, Gabrielle Perry, food service

  • Circle of life: Father, son reconnect at Sheppard, graduate on same day

    Brett and Tyler Pier agreed they lost opportunities in earlier years to connect like a father and son should. Missed high school football games, dances and just spending time together are a few of the moments that lacked one or the other because of deployments, divorce and other commitments. But,

  • A Family Affair: Sanders clan named as Sheppard's Family of the Year

    The Sanders are more than happy to accept Sheppard's 2007 Family of the Year award. But it's not about a plackard to hang on a wall. It's all about just what the award is for -- being a family. "It's not just about the awards for us," said Chap. (Maj.) Jimmie Sanders, 82nd Training Wing senior

  • General Looney visits Sheppard one final time

    A black and white "hero shot" showed a young, confident pilot some years ago, ready to take the tiger by the tail and begin a 35-year voyage that would take him to the top seat of the Air Force's first command. Gen. William R. Looney III, commander of Air Education and Training Command, recognized

  • Sheppard Airmen receive Combat Action Medal

    Two Sheppard Airmen are among the first to be awarded the new Combat Action Medal recognizing Airmen who have risked their lives while engaging the enemy in direct combat. Maj. Larry Harris, 82nd Civil Engineer Squadron operations flight chief, and Senior Airman Shawn Ryan, 82nd Security Forces

  • Team Sheppard helps give local-area children a better Christmas

    Once again, Team Sheppard pulled out all the stops to make someone's holiday special with the annual Give a Child a Christmas event Dec. 7. Hangar 1090 was packed with presents, the Sheppard sponsors who purchased them and the children from Bonham, Sam Houston and Fannin Elementary schools who would

  • Show me the money: Finance tech earns $10,000 through 'IDEA'

    A member of the Sheppard AFB finance office recently won a $10,000 award for discovering a glitch in the Air Force's travel voucher process. Kimberly Hervey, a travel pay clerk for the 82nd Comptroller Squadron, with the help of the IDEA office, suggested that Sheppard's Finance office regularly