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  • Sheppard in photos

    The training and inspiring never stops at Sheppard. Check out this week's happenings in photos.

  • A first for Sheppard maintenance

    From special operations to firefighting, the C-130J Super Hercules has been in service by the U.S. Air Force for the last 19 years, accumulating more than 1.2 million flying hours around the world.

  • Vaccine best way to prevent flu

    The best way of preventing the flu is by getting a flu shot, but there are other preventive steps that can be taken, too.

  • Sheppard making dent in aircraft maintainer shortage

    A shortage of aircraft maintainers on the ground the past several years has posed challenges to meet the Air Force’s basic mission. But Sheppard Air Force Base’s Aircraft Maintenance University is working to change that by getting more maintenance Airmen through training and into the field.

  • RSUs serve as safety net for air traffic

    U.S. and international Airmen comprise the team and are tasked to provide supervision for local undergraduate flying training, instructor pilot flying operations, touch and goes, and multiple landings during student training and solo student operations.

  • Sheppard NCO chosen for national level position

    Staff Sgt. Megan Sullivan, 82nd Training Wing Command Post NCO in charge of training, has been selected to serve aboard the U.S. Strategic Command’s Airborne Command Post, a flying conglomerate of specialists who can continue to command, control and communicate should the need arise.

  • Sheppard in photos

    The training and inspiring never stops at Sheppard. Check out this week's happenings in photos.

  • Revamped course takes learning hydraulics to new level

    Instructors in the 364th Training Squadron’s aircraft hydraulics systems course came to that conclusion about four years ago when they realized that they were teaching Airmen in Training the same materials and using the same training systems they had learned on years ago, which has led to a revamped

  • Man with ties to 82nd TRW lineage to be laid to rest

    First Lieutenant Homer A. Spence, a P-38 Lightning pilot in the 82nd Fighter Group's 96th Fighter Squadron, had been missing since his plane went down in northern Italy in 1944, but his remains have been found and verified. He'll be laid to rest Nov. 18, 2017.

  • Famed actor, Marine visits Sheppard Detachment

    American actor and Marine Corps veteran Wilford Brimley visited Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, on Nov. 9, to help celebrate the 242nd Marine Corps birthday at the Mesquite dining facility. Brimley participated in a cake cutting ceremony, where the oldest and youngest Marine in the detachment were