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AFIMSC partners with industry for future success
April 12, 2019 — Operating at the speed of relevance is key to Air Force future success and that’s not possible without partnering with industry. That was the message delivered by presenters during the annual Air Force Installation and Mission Support Industry Day held in conjunction with AFIMSC’s Installation and Mission Support Weapons and Tactics Conference at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland April 9.... MORE

Joint Base San Antonio greets schoolchildren for ‘Purple Up! For Military Kids’ day
April 12, 2019 — Joint Base San Antonio leaders, service members, teachers and school administrators greeted Fort Sam Houston Elementary School students before classes for “Purple Up! For Military Kids” day April 12. ... MORE

Feedback Fridays
April 12, 2019 — Feedback Fridays is a weekly forum that aims to connect the 502d Air Base Wing with members of the Joint Base San Antonio community. Questions are collected during commander’s calls, town hall meetings and throughout the week. If you have a question or concern, please send an email to RandolphPublicAffairs@us.af.mil using the subject line “Feedback Fridays.” Questions will be further researched and published as information becomes available. ... MORE

Military academies unite with universities in ongoing sexual harassment prevention
April 11, 2019 — Eliminating sexual assault and sexual harassment from the nation's service academies and universities may be a monumental task, said administrators from the nation's academic institutions April 4.... MORE

Air Force Reserve's top 10 things to know about Active Guard Reserve assignments
April 11, 2019 — Recently, the chief of Air Force Reserve approved changes to the Active Guard Reserve program which are expected to be implemented later this year in September. The implementation of the new policy is expected to take place with the publishing of a new Air Force Instruction.... MORE

433rd Airlift Wing trains on mobile device travel voucher process
April 11, 2019 — Staff Sgt. Luz Trice, 433rd Mission Support Group command support staff, guides Staff Sgt. Daryn Kline, 433rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron avionics specialist, through the process of submitting a travel voucher by using the new mobile common access card enabled Air Force Connect app at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland April 7. The 433rd Airlift Wing is one of two beta testing locations for this new capability.... MORE

Defense civilian, military leaders offer views for ensuring U.S. superiority in space
April 11, 2019 — The top echelon of the United States’ civilian and military leadership offered unflinching assurances April 9, that America’s superiority in space will endure even as competition – and the stakes – for primacy intensify.... MORE

433rd Airlift Wing inducts 2019 honorary commanders
April 11, 2019 — Seventeen San Antonio civic and business leaders were inducted into the 433rd Airlift Wing's Honorary Commanders Program, April 6, 2019, during a ceremony at a San Antonio hotel. The ceremony, hosted by Col. Terry W. McClain, 433rd Airlift Wing commander, is a time-honored tradition, signifying the relationship between the military and civilian communities.... MORE

New mobile app enables, engages, empowers Airmen
April 11, 2019 — The Air Force now has an enterprise-wide mobile app designed to provide Airmen with streamlined access to information they need for their lives and careers.... MORE

Military Training Leaders provide new Airmen with seamless transition
April 11, 2019 — Military Training Leaders at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland serve as first-line supervisors and handle everything from room inspections to computer-based trainings for hundreds of Airmen at time.... MORE

Defense Language Institute preps potential international coalition pilots
April 10, 2019 — Students representing more than 120 countries enroll at Defense Language Institute at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. One of the courses they may take is the Mike Sirois Aviation Simulation Lab where they learn more than just how to fly an aircraft.... MORE

Health care transition looks to improve processes for wartime missions, beneficiaries
April 10, 2019 — At the direction of Congress, the military health care system is going through a substantial set of changes in its structure and how it will operate, said Robert Daigle, the Department of Defense Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation director.... MORE

CSAF stresses importance of mission support role at I-WEPTAC
April 10, 2019 — The Air Force’s top general stressed the installation and mission support community’s role in the National Defense Strategy when he kicked off the 3rd Annual Installation and Mission Support Weapons and Tactics Conference, or I-WEPTAC, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland April 8.... MORE

Lt. Col. Dick Cole, last surviving Doolittle Raider, passes away at age 103
April 10, 2019 — A legendary chapter in Air Force history has come to a close. Retired Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” E. Cole, the last survivor of the “Doolittle Raid,” died April 9, in San Antonio.... MORE

The hunt is on: cyber group hosts exercise to evolve operators
April 10, 2019 — The 833rd Cyberspace Operations Squadron was declared victorious in the 567th Cyberspace Operation Group’s “hunt exercise” at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland March 22. The win came as a blow to the 92nd COS, who created the exercise and found themselves relinquishing their commanders cup trophy to a sister squadron.... MORE

DOD official: ‘intense campaign’ addressing military housing issues
April 9, 2019 — Site visits to military housing by defense officials to hear firsthand accounts of problems there are just one step being taken to ensure military families have safe places to live.... MORE

Air Combat Command announces merger of 24th and 25th Air Forces
April 9, 2019 — Air Combat Command is merging 24th and 24th numbered Air Forces at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland this summer to better integrate cyber effects, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations, electronic warfare operations and information operations.... MORE

433rd Airlift Wing aircrew members S.T.E.P. in for good cause
April 8, 2019 — Two Alamo Wing female aircrew members participated in an event hosted by the “Show them Everything Possible” Organization of San Antonio, March 23 at the Alamo Drafthouse movie cinema. The event, “Marvelous Women Don’t Need Capes,” introduced young girls to professional women heroes, who are “Marvelous” in their profession in the San Antonio area.... MORE

Military to bring eye care to front lines with 59th MDW-funded mobile app
April 8, 2019 — Eye injuries in a deployed setting can be a significant setback for any Airman, but new telemedicine capabilities are helping to keep them in the fight. With funding from the 59th Medical Wing, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Air Force and Army medical researchers are developing a HIPAA-compliant smart phone application to connect providers downrange with on-call ophthalmologists either in-theater or at a clinic.... MORE

The backbone of support: sexual assault victim advocates
April 8, 2019 — Sexual assault is one of the most violent crimes in our society. It is the most under-reported crime with 63 percent of sexual assaults not being reported to police. Sexual assault victim advocates are perhaps the backbone of victim support at Joint Base San Antonio. All Army, Navy and Air Force victim advocates receive mandated specialized training on the impact of sexual assault and how to respond to and support its victims. ... MORE