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  • OSI: an unclassified look

    Special agents walk among us, trained to track down criminals, perform counterintelligence operations, and seek out threats of terrorism to the world. No, they're not part of a secret spy organization. They are agents of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. These agents are highly trained

  • Top 3 looks to expand active membership

    From barbecue luncheons to mess-dress banquets, from mentoring young Airmen to welcoming young sergeants into the fold, many functions taking place across Sheppard are in some way touched by the Top 3. This organization, made up of senior NCOs across the base, organizes a variety of programs and

  • Flying in the dark

    It's after sunset and while some people are relaxing in front of the TV or sitting down to dinner, that's not the case for the student pilots at the Euro-Nato Joint Jet Pilot Training program. When everyone else is getting home from work, students, instructor pilots and aircraft maintainers are just

  • Hunting for a new hobby

    She walked across the cemetery and through to the park. No luck. She proceeded past the park, discovering a second cemetery. Gingerly examining her surroundings, she approached a bush. At last the hunt was over, and Staff Sgt. Deborah Brumback was victorious. This trip was one of many searches

  • Madrigal Youth Center provides safe haven for kids

    A young girl with curly blond hair offers a boy some of her 'chocolate milk,' but he smugly refuses her, announcing he knows it's actually a cup of mixed paints before resuming his game of pool, shooting with the wrong end of a cue stick. The girl giggles and rejoins her friends outside where, under

  • CDC provides excellent childcare

    On the playground, "Ms. Helen" calmly helps a toddler decide which ball he wants to play with - no easy feat, since the boy is sobbing, jumping up and down, and wailing "Nooo!" to every ball she offers, but still demanding a ball nonetheless. In the preschoolers' room, "Ms. Cheryl" praises her

  • Basket case

    For her first 15 years in the military, her hands bandaged bloody wounds, changed soiled bedsheets, administered medicine and soothed worried brows. Over the next 15 years, they shuffled evaluation reports across desks, and eventually signed off on paperwork that reduced medical group personnel at

  • Command Post handles crises, emergencies head-on at Sheppard

    When some type of emergency or disaster impacts Sheppard personnel, facilities or equipment, the first people to get notification don't always have sirens attached to their vehicles or weapons and fire hoses at their hips. Often, the first person to learn of a crisis situation or some other bit of