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  • 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

  • Vets offer insight to Air Force’s early years at Lunch-n-Learn

    The July 19 Lunch-n-Learn offered the usual buffet line of Sheppard Club food items and polite table discussion ... with one notable difference. In honor of the upcoming 60th birthday of the Air Force, the Top 3 managed to assemble four Air Force veterans who can stake claim to memories forged when

  • AiTs rack up two grand, nearly one ton of goods for flood victims

    Airmen-in-Training are well accustomed to military training leaders barking orders at them, whether being told to come to attention, run faster, clean their room, or stop talking. The order that Airman 1st Class Tina Howell received, however, was unusual. One of her MTLs informed her she was the new