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  • Latest Roll Call addresses performance forms

    This week's Roll Call discusses streamlined officer and enlisted performance report forms. Air Force officials have already approved new forms incorporating fewer lines and a section to document annual fitness scores to better reflect a warrior ethos. Changes include new lables identifying

  • Sheppard AiTs join United Way salvage effort for flood victims

    A single Airman-in-Training, watching the local media report of the rising levels of water and damage in Wichita Falls, wondered if there was something he could do. Now, Sheppard is in its second week of bussing AiTs to the North Texas Area United Way headquarters to assist with cleanup and repair

  • 364th TRS Airman coined for ‘DUI Save of the Month’

    In his opinion, it's only people who perform dramatic acts of heroism - rescuing someone from a burning building, or bringing someone back from the brink of death with CPR - who deserve a visit from the base commander and the gift of a wing staff coin. So, Airman 1st Class Michael Mondia was

  • Airman receives Purple Heart for service to country

    As the convoy moved along the Iraqi road Feb. 1, Senior Airman Shawn Ryan's mind wasn't on the very real dangers he might face; they weren't on the possibility of injury or the chance that he could be killed. They were on getting the job done. On making sure that he and his squad members would make

  • Team Sheppard makes a splash at annual Build-a-Boat Race

    Their vessels were boat shaped or box shaped, intricately planned out or thrown together on-the-spot and held together with willpower and cries of "more tape." No matter what their finished boat looked like or the method of construction chosen, the 30 teams that competed in Sheppard's annual

  • Troops and spouses still needed as teachers

    One of the most daunting tasks when separating or retiring is finding a career after the Air Force. But, a national organization is looking to take some military members to school on the subject with the Troops to Teachers Program. A "Teaching as a Second Career" seminar to educate possible

  • AETC says “MTL’s, instructors need to be proactive with assignments”

    In February, Air Education and Training Command rolled out a new instructor and military training leader assignment tour system. Due to the complication of such a transition process, many Team Sheppard members were left bewildered by their options. Fortunately for instructors and MTL's on Sheppard,

  • Morani takes charge of Aircraft Maintenance University

    It's not very often someone crosses paths with an officer who can tell a young Airman he knows exactly what they are going through. Sheppard has one who can do just that in the newly appointed 82nd Training Group Commander Col. Steven Morani. The colonel assumed command of the training group July 11