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Pilot Training Next, Air Force ROTC partner for distance learning instruction
February 11, 2020 — For the first time ever, Air Force ROTC cadets with Detachment 536 at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, received real-time instruction remotely from a fully qualified Air Force instructor pilot sitting an airport in Louisiana.... MORE

Air Force moving to comply with new certification requirements for Security Cooperation Workforce
January 14, 2020 — The Defense Security Cooperation Agency developed the requirements in response to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, which directed the Defense Department to establish a Defense Security Cooperation Workforce Development Program. ... MORE

BMT murals: inspiring the next generation
August 8, 2019 — Trainees with the 321st Training Squadron volunteered to paint a series of murals through the unit. The project started July 4, 2017, with the American flag painted across the hallway of several classrooms. It took about 2 ½ months and about 12 gallons of paint. ... MORE

Joint Base San Antonio libraries more than shelves of books
May 2, 2019 — Children who visit the Joint Base San Antoniolibraries are learning more than how to read. The library of decades ago has evolved into a special place where service members, veterans and families can do more than check out a book.... MORE

Civilian Developmental Education offers opportunities to learn, grow
February 6, 2019 — The Air Force Civilian Developmental Education program is a portfolio of courses and training designed to address the developmental needs of the civilian workforce at all levels. Programs help civilians to achieve short or long term goals at a level appropriate to their needs and desired path of future growth. These include opportunities for civilians to attain associate through advanced college degrees in Air Force institutions and spots in military professional education programs. Applications for Academic Year 2020 open on March 1. ... MORE

Lackland ISD selected as Go Public Cool Schools winner
March 28, 2018 — The Lackland Independent School District at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, one of 16 San Antonio-area ISDs, was recognized for the month of March as the Go Public Cool Schools winner contest.... MORE

Award honors JBSA education centers as best in Air Force
August 18, 2017 — The Air Force has recognized Joint Base San Antonio Education and Training Centers for their excellence in 2016.... MORE

Education, Training, Experience: The Continuum of Learning
August 9, 2017 — Air Education and Training Command is reimagining how Airmen are developed, through a paradigm shift in education, training and capitalization of experiences in a new concept: the Continuum of... MORE

Air Force extends Health Professions Loan Repayment Program
July 27, 2017 — Application packages for the Air Force’s Health Professions Loan Repayment Program will now be accepted until Sept. 1. Active-duty Biomedical Sciences Corps and Nurse Corps officers are eligible to apply. ... MORE

Air Force announces Enlisted Professional Military Education redesign
July 18, 2017 — Air Force officials announced major changes to the enlisted professional military education program via an initiative called Enlisted Professional Military Education for the 21st Century, or “EPME 21.”... MORE

Total force development services now in a single-point center
May 3, 2017 — The Air Force has consolidated all total force development services and resources to a single-point center. All Airmen (active duty, Reserve, Guard and civilian) will now be able to fully utilize all force development resources through the virtual force development center.... MORE

Civilian developmental education helps grow tomorrow’s leaders
April 17, 2017 — Shelli Dunn said she fondly remembers her recent experiences at Squadron Officer School, especially one particular exercise called Project X.... MORE