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  • Halloween events set to spook Sheppard

    As ghosts and goblins get ready for their night of freedom and fun on Halloween, Team Sheppard is preparing for a host of events to enjoy the spookiest of holidays. Sheppard will be home to events for all ages. Whether it's late-night costume parties for adults, or pumpkin carving for children,

  • Team Sheppard member aims high with AF Skeet Team

    In most people's eyes a friendly shooting competition between the military services would undoubtedly result in a win for the Army or Marines - however, ten of the best skeet-shooting, warrior-Airmen proved that notion wrong, including one of Team Sheppard's own. The Air Force Skeet Team One took

  • Former chief master sergeant of the Air Force gives Sheppard Airmen advice

    In the midst of a hectic week preparing for the 2007 Open House and Air Show, Team Sheppard got a special treat Oct. 19 when retired Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Gerald R. Murray held an enlisted call at the base theater. Chief Murray visited Sheppard as an employee of the Lockheed-Martin

  • CAF Day offers glimpse of future for pilots, maintainers

    Undergraduate pilot training students at the 80th Flying Training Wing had an opportunity Oct. 19 to get up close and personal with their future aircraft during the annual Combat Air Force Day. Capt. Jay Thomas, the event coordinator and an instructor pilot at the 88th Fighter Training Squadron,

  • Open House another Sheppard success story

    Sheppard's Open House and Air Show lived up to its billing Oct. 20 as thousands made their way from all over to see the Air Force's heritage and its horizons. The heritage was seen in the JN-4D Jenny, the earliest representation of military aviation in the United States. The F-22A Raptor, the

  • State-of-the-art Raptor maintenance facility opens

    A new era of training started at Sheppard Oct. 19 with the opening of the Air Force's F-22A Raptor Maintenance Training Facility. All maintenance training for the nation's newest fighter aircraft will take place in one facility, a new concept in Air Force maintenance training. Airmen from the 361st,

  • Tuskegee Airmen breathe life into Living History Display

    Five Tuskegee Airmen sat patiently Oct. 20 at Sheppard's 2007 Open House and Air Show, not rushing time, but not wasting it, either. They understood the enormous heritage they molded more than 60 years ago and proudly displayed as part of the Tuskegee Living History Display. It was about breaking