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JBSA-Randolph physical therapy, family health clinics work together
September 20, 2019 — Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph physical therapy and family health clinics have been working together to see and treat patients with musculoskeletal issues sooner... MORE

Maj. Joanna Borawski, 359th Medical Operations Squadron physical therapist, stretches Capt. Luke Seaman, 435th Fighter Training Squadron instructor pilot, during a consultation Aug. 8, 2019 at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. Borawski and her team at the physical therapy clinic have been scrubbing family health physicians' calendars looking for patients who can be seen directly by her.

JBSA-Randolph holds 9/11 memorial ceremony
September 11, 2019 — Today, #September11, is the anniversary of a tragedy that not only shook our nation, but made us ultimately stronger as one. We will #NeverForget that day, we will #NeverForget the many lost, and we will #NeverForget the heroes who risked their lives to help... MORE

Airman 1st Class Jalen Anderson (left) and Senior Airman Marcus Allen fold a flag during a 9/11 remembrance ceremony Sept. 11 at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph. The event honored those who lost their lives in New York City, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania during terrorist attacks 18 years ago.

Pilot Training Next graduates 14 in learning experiment's second iteration
August 30, 2019 — Air Education and Training Command’s Pilot Training Next program graduated 14 U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy and the Royal Air Force students from the learning experiment’s second iteration in a ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph Aug. 29... MORE

Pilot Training Next students pose for a group photo after graduation from the learning experiment's second iteration with Brig. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, Air Force Recruiting Service commander, Aug. 29 at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph. PTN is a program to explore and potentially prototype a training environment that integrates various technologies to produce pilots in an accelerated, cost efficient, learning-focused manner.

AETC welcomes new commander
July 29, 2019 — Lt. Gen. Brad Webb took the reins of Air Education and Training Command from Lt. Gen. Steve Kwast during a change of command ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph July 26... MORE

U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein (left) presents the Air Education and Training Command guidon to Lt. Gen. Brad Webb, new commander of AETC, during a change of command ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph July 26. At right is U. S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Steve Kwast, outgoing AETC commander. Webb, a 1984 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, is a command pilot with more than 3,700 flying hours, including 117 combat hours in Afghanistan, Iraq and Bosnia.

AETC Airmen visit PACAF to enhance warfighter alignment
July 25, 2019 — Members of the 12th Operations Support Squadron and 559th Flying Training Squadron, both assigned to the 12th Flying Training Wing at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, visited Pacific Air Forces headquarters July 8-10... MORE

Members of the 12th Operations Support Squadron and 559th Flying Training Squadron from Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph pose for a group photo during a history tour at Headquarters Pacific Air Forces, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, July 10, 2019. The purpose of the visit was for Air Education and Training Command members to learn more about Pacific theater operations and build and a relationship between AETC as a major command and PACAF as a combatant command.

Kwast salutes AETC team for 'failing forward' in learning, innovation
July 11, 2019 — In the nearly two years since Lt. Gen. Steve Kwast took command of Air Education and Training Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, there has been change across many fronts of the Air Force’s recruiting, training and education enterprise... MORE

Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast, commander of Air Education and Training Command, officially addresses the men and women of the AETC for the first time as their commander during a change of command ceremony Nov. 16, 2017, at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph. Kwast, a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate, will pass command of AETC to Lt. Gen. Brad Webb July 26, 2019.

Retired AETC brigadier general encourages future pilots
July 9, 2019 — Retired Brig. Gen. John Cherrey, former Director of Intelligence, Operations and Nuclear Integration, Headquarters Air Education and Training Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, spoke at Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Class’s 19-17/18 graduation June 28 in the Kaye Auditorium at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi... MORE

Retired Brig. Gen. John Cherrey, former Director of Intelligence, Operations and Nuclear Integration, Headquarters Air Education and Training Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, speaks to attendees during Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Class’s 19-17/18 graduation in the Kaye Auditorium June 28 at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. Cherrey spoke about his last 30 years as a pilot and wanted the newest generation of aviators to understand how important their job is.

Houston Texans star Lamar Miller hosts football camp at JBSA-Randolph
July 3, 2019 — Houston Texans running back Lamar Miller hosted a football camp for about 150 Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph Air Force Base youth from the first through eighth grades July 1-2. Miller, who has been with the Texans for three seasons, led the football camp to help military children to learn the game of football and live healthier lifestyles... MORE

Houston Texans running back Lamar Miller (left) hosted a football camp for about 150 Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph Air Force Base youth from the first through eighth grades July 1-2. Miller, who has been with the Texans for three seasons, led the football camp to help military children to learn the game of football and live healthier lifestyles.

12th Flying Training Wing historian recognized by AETC
June 17, 2019 — The preservation of Air Force history is an important task which allows Airmen to look back in time and remember important milestones and events that were important to the identity of a unit. For the last 13 years, Lane Bourgeois, 12th Flying Training Wing historian at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, has ensured the 12th's history lives on forever... MORE

Lane Bourgeois, 12th Flying Wing historian, sifts through a pile of historical documents in his office at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph June 12, Texas. Bourgeois was honored with the 2019 Wing Excellence in History Programs award from Air Education and Training Command June 12. Lane received Air Education and Training Command's 2019 Wing Excellence in History Programs award for his critical thinking presentations and being the first wing to produce a historical study in the new format.

Air Force looks at faster, smarter hardware acquisition and big data to help solve T-6 OBOGS issues
June 13, 2019 — Nineteenth Air Force hosted a forum of experts from both in and outside the Department of Defense as part of the ongoing process to improve the safety of the T-6 On-Board Oxygen Generating Systems during a conference at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph May 29-30... MORE

Maj. Gen. Patrick Doherty (left), 19th Air Force commander, and Maj. Lincoln Olsen, T-6 Texan II instructor pilot, conduct a T-6 Texan II safety check before conducting an operational demonstration at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph Feb. 21, 2018. Doherty was on the flightline getting test data first-hand during the command-wide T-6 operational pause.

Superintendents join AFPC Squadron Commander Course
May 30, 2019 — The Air Force’s Personnel Center hosted its third 2019 squadron commander course at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph May 13-16, and for the first time included squadron superintendents. AFPC has eight squadron commander courses planned throughout 2019 after a six-year course hiatus... MORE

Chief Master Sgt. Kenneth Lindsey (left), Air Force Personnel Center’s command chief, and Lt. Col. James Valpiani (right), 461st Flight Test Squadron director of operations, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., have a discussion during the third AFPC Squadron Commander Course this year at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph May 13-16. Squadron commanders, directors and superintendents from across the Air Force joined in the course, which focused on AFPC programs and processes for talent management and care for Airmen and families.

Air Force Civilian Service seeks talent through virtual hiring events
April 22, 2019 — The Air Force Civilian Service’s Talent Acquisition Division at the Air Force’s Personnel Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph hosted an online virtual hiring event April 10 supporting Air Force Materiel Command’s recruiting efforts. Although virtual hiring events aren’t new for the AFPC Talent Acquisition team, the platform for this event is new to the Air Force and the scale of the candidate pool is the largest to date... MORE

The Air Force Civilian Service’s Talent Acquisition Division at the Air Force’s Personnel Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, hosted an online virtual hiring event April 10, supporting Air Force Materiel Command’s recruiting efforts. With nearly 400 vacancies, talent acquisition consultants partnered with AFMC hiring officials to fill positions with well-qualified individuals.

Final Doolittle Raider’s tradition of honor and legacy of valor celebrated at memorial
April 19, 2019 — he tradition of honor and legacy of valor that defined the life of retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” E. Cole were celebrated during a memorial service at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph April 18. On the day marking the 77th anniversary of the storied World War II Doolittle Tokyo raid and in a hangar surrounded by vintage aircraft linked to the Doolittle Raider’s career, Cole’s family and friends, Air Force senior leaders, and Airmen of all ranks gathered to recognize the accomplishments of the humble warrior from Ohio who answered his nation’s call in America’s darkest days... MORE

U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein addresses the family of retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” E. Cole during a memorial service at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph April 18. Cole was the last surviving Doolittle Raider who took part in the storied World War II raid on Tokyo and was a founding Airman of the USAF Special Operations community.

Restoration project enhances Parr Club patio’s aesthetics, improves drainage
April 12, 2019 — Begun in August 2017, a restoration project at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph to improve the Parr Club’s foundation and the patio’s concrete slab, has added significant aesthetic improvements, including a new terrazzo finish and new tiles on the exterior of the basin surrounding the fountain, one of the patio’s focal points... MORE

Workers carry out restoration work on the Parr Club fountain in the center of Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas on April 19, 2019. A ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of the project and opening of the patio is planned in the near future.

Air Force's Personnel Center hosts Squadron Commander Course
March 27, 2019 — The Air Force’s Personnel Center hosted its second squadron commander course at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph March 18-22. After a six-year hiatus, the course was reinstituted in January and redesigned to provide new and sitting squadron commanders a first-hand opportunity to learn about key issues and processes about AFPC’s key programs and processes for talent management and care for Airmen and families... MORE

Squadron commanders from across the Air Force pose for a group photo at the Air Force’s Personnel Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph March 20. During the four-day squadron commander course, they visited with AFPC leaders and subject matter experts to discuss key issues and processes about AFPC’s talent management and care for Airmen and families.

Family keeps daydream going with virtual reality adventure at JBSA-Randolph
March 22, 2019 — A family whose journeys in their recreational vehicle to places as far-flung as Alaska to the north and New Zealand to the west are captured on their popular YouTube channel will soon show their 100,000-plus viewers how the 12th Flying Training Wing’s aircraft simulator innovations are transforming pilot training... MORE

Members of the Leach family experiences a virtual reality trainer March 11, 2019, at the 559th Flying Training Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. The Leach family, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., spend much of their time traveling the country in “Ginger,” their RV. The video featuring their trip to JBSA-Randolph and their simulator experiences will be presented on the Season 7 premiere of their YouTube series, “Keep Your Daydream.

Famaganza returns for annual celebration of Month of the Military Child
March 22, 2019 — Famaganza, a springtime festival that has been a fixture at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph for more than two decades, will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 6 at JBSA-Randolph Youth Programs on Main Circle, buildings 584 and 585... MORE

Members of Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph joust during Famaganza at the Youth Programs Complex on JBSA-Randolph April 9, 2016. Famaganza, a free family event open to all Department of Defense cardholders, featured entertainment, food and information booths.

Air Force chief of staff gets up close view of new T-X trainer
January 25, 2019 — After his first up-close view Jan. 15 of a ready-to-fly T-X, the Air Force’s training aircraft of the future, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein could have been expected to marvel at the technical sophistication of a state-of-the-art plane designed and manufactured not only with future pilots in mind but with maintainers and software specialists as well. The first T-X aircraft and simulators are scheduled to arrive at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph in 2023... MORE

Boeing test pilot Steve Schmidt explains features of the new T-X trainer to Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein as Goldfein sits in the plane’s elevated instructor’s seat. Goldfein inspected the plane during a visit Jan. 15 to Boeing’s St. Louis production facility.

Instrument Landing System ensures safe arrival in any weather
January 10, 2019 — In times of inclement weather in San Antonio, pilots from the 12th Flying Training Wing find themselves in similar predicaments. Thick clouds and heavy precipitation can render pilots virtually blind, creating an extremely stressful situation especially as they approach to land at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph... MORE

A T-38C Talon lands at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, Oct. 2, 2017. The 12th Flying Training Wing employs the T-38C to teach pilot instructor training students, test pilots, and introduction to fighter fundamentals students.

Resilient Airman supports innovation, wins top award
January 2, 2019 — The Air Force named a 12th Operations Group “problem-solver” at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph as its installation-level Resource Advisor of the Year for 2018... MORE

Autry Fontenot, a budget analyst in the 12th Operations Group at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, poses for a photo in his office in Hangar 63. The Air Force named him its installation-level Resource Advisor of the Year for 2018. Fontenot supports pilot training innovations by managing millions of dollars.