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  • Growing to Meet Current and Future AF RPA Training Demands

    Earlier this month the 558th Flying Training Squadron took delivery of its sixteenth and final new flight simulator from the 502nd Air Base Wing’s Trainer Development Squadron. It is the latest component of a veritable and growing undergraduate pilot training machine.“There aren’t many growth

  • Many leadership lessons learned from Haven For Hope visit

    The 12th Flying Training Wing’s leaders spent four hours at a homeless shelter Sept. 7 as part of a commanders’ off-site. The Haven for Hope provides a place of hope and new beginnings for more than 2,100 people at a 22-acre campus near downtown San Antonio.

  • 559th Host Bring Your Kids to Work Day

    Airmen with the 559th Flying Training Squadron welcomed younger family members to Hangar 64 on Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph for Bring Your Child to Work Day August. 11.

  • Pilot-physician makes history by earning RPA wings

    A pilot-physician made history here May 5, becoming the first Air Force unmanned aircraft pilot-physician with his graduation from the 558th Flying Training Squadron’s undergraduate remotely-piloted aircraft training program. Maj. Joe, a flight surgeon who has been in the Air Force since 2003, will

  • EPIC accomplishment for Air Force’s newest pilots

    The first three enlisted members graduated the Air Force’s remotely piloted aircraft training program here today, making them the service’s first enlisted pilots since 1961. Today’s graduation is the most significant milestone in a bold initiative announced Dec. 17, 2015, to find high-quality

  • Wings of Blue jump into Texas Rangers' home opener

    Wings of Blue, the Air Force Academy’s parachute team, helped the Texas Rangers kick off their Major League Baseball season with a jump into the team’s home opener at Globe Life Park April 3, in Arlington, Texas. The WOB took participated in the pregame ceremonies before the Rangers competed against

  • 44th Annual Freedom Flyer Reunion honors sacrifice of POWs/MIAs

    Members of the 560th Flying Training Squadron hosted the 44th annual Freedom Flyer Reunion and 20th annual POW/MIA Symposium March 30-31 at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas.The event honors all prisoners of war and missing in action service members from the Vietnam War and included a

  • 1,000th RPA student graduates

    Lt. Col. Jason Thompson, 558th Flying Training Squadron commander, presented 2nd Lt. Kevin a certificate commemorating the thousandth graduate of the Undergraduate Remotely Piloted Aircraft training program at Joint Base San Antonio–Randolph, Texas, Jan. 20, 2017.The 558th Flying Training Squadron