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Celebrating 50 years of C-130 training at LRAFB

In this photo from March 1970, Jacksonville Mayor John Harden christens Little Rock Air Force Base’s first C-130 Hercules. The aircraft was named the “City of Jacksonville.” Looking on, at the right, is Colonel Richard J. Gibney, then wing commander of the 64th Tactical Airlift Wing. (Courtesy photo)
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Survival tactics

Survival, evasion, resistance and escape instructors and trainees participate in the SERE Specialist Training Orientation Course at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, Texas, Sept. 21, 2021. The SERE training orientation is a 15-day course designed to gauge the trainees’ potential success in the SERE pipeline. The trainees are evaluated on their physical fitness, leadership and followership abilities, time management, speaking ability and commitment to becoming a SERE specialist. (U.S. Air Force photo by Brian G. Rhodes)
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AETC Chief Master Sgt. Erik Thompson visit

Chief Master Sgt. Erik Thompson, center, command chief of Air Education and Training Command, and Staff Sgts. Russell Taylor, left, and Alyxandra Anguiano, right, 363rd Training Squadron armament instructors, carry a training missile to load on a mock-up F-22 ground instructional training aircraft during the chief’s immersion tour with the 82nd Training Wing at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, Oct. 6, 2021. The chief spent two days at Sheppard to get a first-hand look at the Air Force’s largest and most diverse training installation. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Logan Thomas)
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AETC Chief Master Sgt. Erik Thompson visit

Chief Master Sgt. Erik Thompson, center, command chief of Air Education and Training Command is escorted to the F-22 maintenance training facility by 365th Training Squadron avionics instructor Tech. Sgt. David Hejmanowski during an immersion tour with the 82nd Training Wing at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, Oct. 6, 2021. The chief spent two days at Sheppard to get a first-hand look at the Air Force’s largest and most diverse training installation. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Logan Thomas)
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AETC Chief Master Sgt. Erik Thompson visit

Chief Master Sgt. Erik Thompson, command chief of Air Education and Training Command, speaks with Staff Sgt. Macie Barela, 80th Operational Support Squadron air traffic controller, during an immersion tour with the 80th Flying Training Wing at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, Oct. 6, 2021. The chief, who previously served in the same capacity with 19th Air Force, which oversees pilot training for AETC, spent two days at Sheppard to get a first-hand look at the Air Force’s largest and most diverse training installation. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Logan Thomas)
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AETC Chief Master Sgt. Erik Thompson visit

Chief Master Sgt. Erik Thompson, left, command chief of Air Education and Training Command, takes a spin in a virtual reality flight simulator with the aid of Capt. Kevin Bursaw, right, 89th Flying Training Squadron instructor pilot, during an immersion tour with the 80th Flying Training Wing at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, Oct. 6, 2021. The chief, who previously served in the same capacity with 19th Air Force, which oversees pilot training for AETC, spent two days at Sheppard to get a first-hand look at the Air Force’s largest and most diverse training installation. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Logan Thomas)
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Air University puts the ‘E’ in AETC

The Air Force instituted the Allied Officer Preparatory Phase Course to help international officers adjust to Air University programs in 1954. Allied officers have been attending AU since 1946. Several name changes later, it was given its current name of International Officer School in 1985. Since 1954, more than 11,000 international military students from 143 countries have graduated from IOS preparatory courses. Annually, IOS supports about 250 students and their families while attending AU programs, such as Air Command and Staff College (pictured). (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Rhonda Smith)
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Air University puts the ‘E’ in AETC

The Air Force Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy was activated on July 1, 1972, on Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. A few months later on Nov. 2, the academy moved to its current home on Maxwell’s Gunter Annex. The SNCOA is the third level of enlisted professional military education, with Airman Leadership School and NCO Academy being the first and second levels, respectively. All three programs reside in the Thomas N. Barnes Center for Enlisted Education. The center is named after the fourth chief master sergeant of the Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Rhonda Smith)
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Air University puts the ‘E’ in AETC

The Air Force Officer Training School realigned under Air University at the same time as AU realigned under Air Training Command on July 1, 1993. OTS moved to Air University from Lackland AFB, Texas, and ATC was redesignated Air Education and Training Command with the addition of Air University as a subordinate unit. Today, OTS uses its Leadership Reaction Course (pictured) to help develop teamwork, leadership, communication skills and critical thinking in cadets destined to become commissioned officers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jennifer Stai)
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Air University puts the ‘E’ in AETC

The first Air University commander, Maj. Gen. Muir S. Fairchild, and Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, commanding general, Army Air Forces, are considered the ‘founding fathers’ of professional military education. Today, Air University is the Air Force and Space Force’s center of enlisted and officer professional military education. The university uses leading edge pedagogy to develop leaders, such as the use of the mixed reality learning experience at Squadron Officer School. Through the use of avatars, the experience exposes SOS students to real-world scenarios where they have to use their strengths and understand their weaknesses in conflict resolution. (U.S. Air Force photo by Billy Blankenship)
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319th Training Squadron lays the foundation for CBRN training

U.S. Air Force Basic Military Training trainees conduct Post Attack Reconnaissance operations during Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills Training at Joint Base San Antonio-Chapman Annex, Sept. 15, 2021. This training prepares trainees to accomplish the mission within a Weapons of Mass Destruction contested environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jason Wilkinson)
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319th Training Squadron lays the foundation for CBRN training

U.S. Air Force Basic Military Training trainees review the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear application worksheet at Joint Base San Antonio-Chapman Annex, Sept. 15, 2021. Trainees practice foundational lessons before participating in exercise scenarios wearing protective equipment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jason Wilkinson)
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319th Training Squadron lays the foundation for CBRN training

Basic Training trainees go through practice scenarios for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Defense Orientation, Sept. 15, 2021, on the Chapman Training Annex, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. The 319th Training Squadron gives CBRN training to 100% of Basic Training trainees that enter the United States Air Force and United States Space Force, approximately 400 trainees each day and 35,000 enlisted members annually. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jason Wilkinson)
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Combat Controllers

Tech. Sgt. Curtis Hinkley, a 6th Combat Training Squadron, Detachment 2 instructor, provides instruction to an Estonian tactical air control party (TACP) student enrolled in the Joint Terminal Attack Controller Qualification Course (JTACQC), hosted by the 137th Combat Training Flight (137th CTF) from Will Rogers Air National Guard Base in Oklahoma City, at Razorback Range near Fort Smith, Ark., March 9, 2021. The Estonian TACP is the first to complete the Air Combat Command JTACQC from a NATO Partner Nation since the 137th CTF began welcoming international students. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Andrew M. LaMoreaux)
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59 MDW: Medical readiness training through the pandemic

Patient Decontamination Course students remove a simulated patient from a tent after decontamination at the 59th Medical Readiness Training Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, Texas, Sept. 1, 2021. Decontamination training plays a vital role in deployed operations and chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear incidents. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Amanda Stanford)
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59 MDW: Medical readiness training through the pandemic

Staff Sgt. Aleksander Cvetkov, Patient Decontamination Course instructor, evaluates the simulated patient for contamination during training at the 59th Medical Readiness Training Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, Texas, Sept. 1, 2021. The MRTC offers five full-spectrum medical readiness training courses for all levels of medical knowledge, from brand-new Air Force Medical Service Airmen to experienced surgeons. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Amanda Stanford)
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59 MDW: Medical readiness training through the pandemic

Patient Decontamination Course students practice proper DECON techniques during training at the 59th Medical Readiness Training Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, Texas, Sept. 1, 2021. The course teaches and refreshes Air Force medics on DECON procedures in case of a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear incident. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Amanda Stanford)
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59 MDW: Medical readiness training through the pandemic

Tech. Sgt. Kassandra Derlein, Patient Decontamination Course instructor, assists a student with donning personal protective equipment at the 59th Medical Readiness Training Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, Texas, Sept. 1, 2021. The MRTC offers five full-spectrum medical readiness training courses for all levels of medical knowledge, from brand-new Air Force Medical Service Airmen to experienced surgeons. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Amanda Stanford)
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59 MDW: Medical readiness training through the pandemic

Patient Decontamination Course students don their personal protective equipment during training at the 59th Medical Readiness Training Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, Texas, Sept. 1, 2021. Decontamination training plays a vital role in deployed operations and chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear incidents. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Amanda Stanford)
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HH-60 Pave Hawk arrives at Sheppard

An HH-60 Pave Hawk from Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, sits on a ramp at Sheppard AFB, Texas, Sept. 28, 2021. The arrival of the retired aircraft on Sept. 27 has been 30 years in the making as a request was submitted in April 1991 to have the HH-60 brought to Sheppard to be used as a ground instructional training aircraft for 363rd Training Squadron armament and munitions Airmen in Training. The aircraft could also be used by other technical training programs here. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Logan Thomas)
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