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  • 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

  • Sheppard honors 9/11 victims

    It's come to be known simply as 9/11. There's no mistaking what it means when someone asks, "Where were you on 9/11?" That one day changed a multitude of lives forever. For retired Air Force Col. Kathleen Roberts, it took her in a direction she hadn't imagined - especially as someone who was used to

  • Summer safety campaign successful at Sheppard

    Sheppard completed another successful 101 Critical Days of Summer Sept. 4, meeting its goal of zero fatalities. Although Sheppard finished a successful campaign, the Air Force overall had 19 fatalities during the period between Memorial Day and Labor Day. James Zillweger, 82nd Training Wing chief of

  • Portraits honor former Dental Corps chiefs

    "Does anybody have an airbrush?" Not exactly the response one would hope for or expect when presenting a subject with the work of art they inspired. Yet it fitted the man who stood in his tweed jacket, his white, flyaway hair curling around his ears, staring at the oil painting that represented his

  • Military, civil service to receive added benefit with FRV

    Military members and Department of Defense civilians will be eligible for Full Replacement Value protection on personal property shipments effective this fall. According to the U.S. Army's Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command based at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., FRV coverage for