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  • 361st TRS Airman killed en route to Tyndall

    Airman 1st Class Joseph Kitzmiller could barely keep from laughing as he stood in a room Feb. 2, telling a story of a man of small stature who lived life as a giant. The 23-year-old Airman told of countless times students in the 361st Training Squadron's Aerospace Propulsion course would holler out

  • Groundhog Job Shadow Day gives students glimpse into future

    The sun rises at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, as a military training instructor methodically checks one Airman after another during an open ranks inspection. Across the world at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, an F-15E Strike Eagle takes off to perform its mission. For members of the U.S.

  • Officials turnover base housing Feb. 6

    The light at the end of the tunnel isn't always a train. In this instance, the light Sheppard leadership and housing residents see is the official turnover of base housing units to GMH Military Housing, the company selected to lead the base into the housing privatization sector. Walt Buster, the

  • Funk selected for Presidential Advance Action Team

    As Air Force One pulls into the small-town airfield, throngs of media and well-wishers are there to greet the president. Alongside them stands a select group of Airmen selected to be presidential representatives at the arrival location. Arriving days before the president, members of the Presidential

  • Iraqi AMOC graduate dies in suspected attack

    Iraqi Air Force Col. Ahmed A. Al Amran left Sheppard on Dec. 15 with the dream of making a war-torn Iraq a better place...to make his increasingly dangerous neighborhood in Baghdad a safe haven where children could run and play in the streets.That dream was cut short Jan. 28 when he was killed in a

  • Team Sheppard member rides past the competition, completes Tour de Sheppard

    Biking the 2,400 miles of the Tour de France is a difficult accomplishment that takes even the greatest bikers in the world around three weeks to complete. But through a program offered by the 82nd Services Division, Team Sheppard members with access to the fitness centers may get a taste of what

  • Red River book offered as gift, donation at MOAA lunch

    As she held the new hardcover book in her withered hands, she thought of the anecdotes inside, capturing the history and experiences of those who'd dwelled in the Red River Valley. She thought of her husband, retired Navy Reserve Capt. Temple Driver, whom she'd buried just months earlier, and how he