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  • Holocaust survivor speaks at luncheon

    Michael Jacobs pulled up on the cuff of his left sleeve, an act he's performed hundreds, if not thousands of times. Undoubtedly, the markings on his forearm took him back to a literal Hell on Earth he endured for five years when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939. Images most people recall are from

  • Training wheels: Video mandatory for all Sheppard motorcycle riders

    Every year there seems to be some who, for whatever reason, decides to get on a motorcycle and do things they shouldn't or aren't prepared to handle. Most of those cases usually end up with some sort of an injury, but there are those that result in a fatality. Brig. Gen. Richard Devereaux, 82nd

  • Sheppard recognizes new chief at ceremony

    By federal law, only 1 percent of the total enlisted force may carry the rank of chief master sergeant. This past cycle, 2,475 senior master sergeants were considered for promotion to chief. Chief Master Sgt. Richard Price, 360th Training Squadron, was one of only 417 of those, and the Sheppard

  • Airman's Roll Call highlights Doolittle Raiders

    The latest Airman's Roll Call highlights the Doolittle Raiders, who are reuniting this week to remember the 65th anniversary of their historic flight. On April 18, 1942, 80 men launched 16 B-25 medium bombers from the deck of an aircraft carrier on their way to bombing various targets on the home

  • Air Force program reconnects Airmen to heritage

    One important of the Air Force's 60th Anniversary is how much in the forefront it places our Air Force Heritage in everyone's mind. Air Force History Office officials are launching a new program to help unite Airmen, past and present, commemorate and preserve their shared heritage. The amount of

  • Idea nets Sheppard maintenance Airman $10,000

    An Air Force maintainer from a Sheppard detachment recently earned big bucks by making good use of a part that was going to be turned into scrap metal. Master Sgt. Barry Buchmiller of the 62nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron received a $10,000 check from the Air Force's Innovative Development through

  • Tuskegee Airmen key to AF history

    The Tuskegee Airmen were dedicated, determined young men who enlisted to become America's first black military airmen, at a time when there were many people who thought that black men lacked intelligence, skill, courage and patriotism. They came from every section of the country, with large numbers

  • Thunderbirds help tell AF story

    On June 8, 1953, the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, officially designated the 3600th Air Demonstration Flight, performed for the first time at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. Their first aircraft was the straight-winged F-84G Thunderjet, a combat fighter-bomber that had seen action in Korea. Three years