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  • Sheppard mourns tragic passing of Sergeant Welch

    Sheppard personnel, largely consisting of the 882nd Training Group, filled the North Chapel Sept. 20, sharing their sorrow and offering each other comfort in a memorial service for one of their own, Staff Sgt. Charles Welch. A helpdesk technician with the 882nd Training Support Squadron, Sergeant

  • Sheppard members present arms at two-day blood drive

    Several hundred red-blooded Sheppard members turned out Sept. 18-19 to donate 359 units during the American Red Cross' two-day campaign at the community center. The disaster aid organization typically tries to have at least four drives on base annually because of the willingness of donors base-wide.

  • “Team Sheppard” brings home the gold in Air Force Marathon

    "Team Sheppard," four active duty Airmen from various squadrons, competed in the annual Air Force Marathon at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio Sept. 15 - and won first place. The team consisted of Capt. David Max of the 88th Flying Training Squadron, Capt. Mark Roberts of the 82nd Dental

  • Man answers phone, mother's pleas for help

    For Suzy Haudenshild, it all began with a scream. The 82nd Services Squadron veterinary clinic automation clerk had called in sick the morning of Aug. 9, and stayed home with her son, Nicholas, 20, and his girlfriend, Ashley. "It was just a bad feeling," Mrs. Haudenshild said. "Call it mother's

  • Next phase of force shaping will take few officer slots

    As the Air Force looks to re-capitalize assets and modernize its aircraft, weapons and computer systems, hard decisions will be made regarding personnel to reach those goals. To that end, there will be another cycle of force shaping in fiscal year 2008. These cuts will be very low and rather

  • Bowl-a-Thon raises $1,500 for local charity

    More than 200 Team Sheppard members laced up their bowling shoes and flexed their 9-pin muscle Sept. 13-14 at the annual Combined Federal Campaign Bowl-a-Thon fundraiser. Tech. Sgts. Jason Weill and Matthew Beauregard, coordinators for the event, said the two-day event raised $1,500 for the North

  • SAIO official visits medical training, looks at mission prior to move

    Moving one medical training course wasn't too difficult for retired Army Col. Clarence "CEM" Maxwell when he helped move the Army's biomedical technician training following the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure recommendations. Now, a decade later, Dr. Maxwell - who possesses a doctorate in

  • CES and Sheppard recognized by Department of Energy

    Sheppard already knew it was tops in environmental areas. Now the base can lay claim to being tops in energy conservation as it was named a winner of a 2007 Federal Energy & Water Management Award recently. The 82nd Civil Engineer Squadron led Sheppard as one of only seven military installations