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  • 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

  • Throwback paint scheme proves heritage is big in the 435th

    The 435th Fighter Training Squadron and the 12th Maintenance Group have blended a throwback paint scheme with a 40th anniversary reunion to celebrate a vital Air Force mission.When the 435th was reactivated after the Vietnam War on Jan. 1, 1977 at Holloman Air Force Base, its mission was to teach

  • Air Force releases RFP, replaces T-38

    The Advanced Pilot Training (T-X) program will provide student pilots in Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training (SUPT) advanced phase and Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals (IFF) with the skills and competencies required to transition into 4th- and 5th-generation fighter aircraft."Pilot training

  • Wing members support CSO career day

    More than 20 members of the 55th Wing supported the 479th Flying Training Group’s Undergraduate Combat Systems Officer Training Career Day here Nov. 18.   The 479th FTG organizes a career day every six months to help current CSO students make more informed decisions on what aircraft they would