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  • 782 TRG Dining Out: Heritage to Horizon

    As the Air Force celebrates its upcoming 60th birthday, the 782nd Training Group is joining in on the festivities. The group will celebrate the anniversary with a dining out Aug. 18 at 6 p.m. at the Sheppard Club. Brig. Gen. Everett Thomas, vice commander of the Air Force Warfare Center at Nellis

  • Airman's Roll Call highlights Senior Enlisted Leader Summit

    This week's Airman's Roll Call highlights the first-ever Senior Enlisted Leader Summit which was held at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., Gunter Annex. More than 360 senior enlisted leaders met July 22 to 27 to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing Airmen today. Attendees discussed training

  • General Whitmore nominated for second star

    When he began his career as a second lieutenant, he hoped to maybe become a lieutenant colonel and a squadron commander. Since then, he's held positions at the Pentagon, led expeditionary wings in Afghanistan and even served as Commander of the 82nd Training Wing. Now, Brig. Gen. James A. Whitmore,

  • Children learn life skills, have fun at Missoula Children’s Theater

    Sheppard had a host of fantastical visitors for one week when a roguish outlaw, a spoiled prince and a number of friendless skunks lived out their adventures for Team Sheppard's entertainment. The Missoula Children's Theater was responsible for letting loose this cast of characters, as well as a few

  • Airman's Roll Call discusses base realignment, closure

    This week's Airman's Roll Call discusses base realignment and closure requirements for Air Force installations and offices to be closed or moved to maximize efficiency. The efficiencies that will be achieved as a result of BRAC will help free up critical resources needed for today's fight, as well

  • 365-day deployments have advantages

    There are those in the military who cannot imagine a deployment lasting longer than three months. Others have led the type of career that keeps them in remote locations for the better part of a year. For those who don't mind the long separation from the States, or who want to take advantage of the

  • First Raptor fuselage trainer arrives at Sheppard

    When it comes to the future of fighter aircraft maintenance, technology is part of the training from the ground up - sometimes literally. The road to the first Airmen-in-Training occupying Sheppard's recently completed $21 million, 122,000-square-feet, F-22A Raptor Maintenance Training Facility