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DOD seeks feedback from Airmen, families on Housing Resident Bill of Rights
June 17, 2019 — The Department of Defense is asking current residents of military privatized housing to provide feedback on a draft version of a Resident Bill of Rights. The Air Force is part of a tri-service initiative to create a Resident Bill of Rights that identifies the basic housing rights of service members and their families living in privatized housing...

METC commandant promoted to brigadier general
June 17, 2019 — Army Col. Jack Davis, commandant of the Medical Education and Training Campus, or METC, traded in his eagle for a star when he was promoted to brigadier general during a ceremony in METC’s Anderson Hall Auditorium at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston June 7...

902nd CES explosive ordnance disposal unit keeps JBSA safe
June 17, 2019 — Potentially dangerous packages and items come in all shapes and sizes. Military training areas or training target areas for fighter aircraft may have unidentified and potentially dangerous explosive devices hidden in the ground. A grandparent may have taken a "trophy" home after military service that's discovered in an attic. The explosive ordnance disposal is continuously on alert and ready to safely handle any potential explosive-related danger that could be lurking...

Rent or Buy: consider options before taking the plunge
June 14, 2019 — For some, a part of the American dream means owning a home. When making that jump from renter to homeowner, there are some factors to consider, especially for a first-time homebuyer. ...

Married couple joins Navy together, adjusting to military life
June 14, 2019 — A chance for a better future and to serve their country are the reasons Mark and Pearl Alvarado, a married couple from San Antonio, made the decision to join the military together...

59th MDW CCATT team flys mother, baby home safely after 7 months in ICU
June 14, 2019 — Her anxious brown eyes stare large around her. The red jump seats, wires, oxygen masks, bare sheet metal and overall cold, dark interior of a C-130 Hercules are not comforting to the young mother whose 7-month-old son is out of an intensive care unit for the first time...

Chamber of commerce award continues JBSA-Randolph firefighter’s eventful year
June 14, 2019 — The accolades were slow in coming, but there’s been no shortage of them in the past year for an Air Force staff sergeant who has served as a firefighter assigned to the 502nd Civil Engineer Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph for more than two years...

Brazilian Army honors U.S. Army South civilian
June 14, 2019 — Stuart Warner, a Department of Army civilian and command lead for Culminating Exercise 2020 at U.S. Army South, recently accepted the Brazilian Army Medal during a ceremony in Bethesda, Maryland, acknowledging his many contributions to strengthen military relations with the Brazilian Army during an April 25 ceremony in Bethesda, Maryland...

Feedback Fridays
June 14, 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. ...

It’s only June, but not too early to prepare for holiday spending
June 13, 2019 — With the summer months still ahead of us, the holiday season seems a long way off. However, a workshop scheduled from 1-2:30 p.m. June 25 at the Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph Military & Family Readiness Center serves as a reminder that it’s never too early to prepare for the holidays, especially when it comes to budgeting your hard-earned money. ...

Army making improvements to Family Readiness Groups
June 13, 2019 — The Army recently made some of the most significant changes to Family Readiness Groups since their creation following the first Gulf War. The groups have been re-named "Soldier and Family Readiness Groups" or SFRGs...

Wills takes command of 19th Air Force overseeing flying training
June 13, 2019 — With the sounds of freedom and flying training as the backdrop, Maj. Gen. Craig D. Wills took the reins of the 19th Air Force from Maj. Gen. Patrick Doherty during a change of command ceremony at Hangar 4 at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, June 13, 2019...

NMETLC volunteer effort helps hungry across southwest Texas
June 13, 2019 — Sailors from the Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston conducted a community outreach event at the San Antonio Food Bank June 11, helping process 15,433 pounds of food, which will help provide 12,346 meals for families suffering from hunger...

Healthy foods add spice to life
June 13, 2019 — As part of its mission to deliver healthy food options to Airmen and families across the Air Force, the Air Force Services Center, in partnership with the Culinary Institute of America San Antonio, held its first techniques for healthy cooking class June 3-7 focusing on nonappropriated fund food and beverage chefs and cooks...

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...

German allies visit JBSA-Fort Sam Houston on 75th anniversary of D-Day
June 12, 2019 — Seventy-five years to the day of the Normandy invasion that marked the beginning of the end of Nazi occupation in Europe, the U.S. Army Medical Department, Health Readiness Center of Excellence, or HRCOE, on JBSA-Fort Sam Houston, hosted a visit by German allies June 6...

Ceremony honors 228 graduating military physicians, health care professionals
June 12, 2019 — A San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, or SAUSHEC, graduation ceremony was held June 7 at the Lila Cockrell Theatre in downtown San Antonio to honor 228 Army, Air Force, Navy, Public Health and civilian graduates. This year, 205 physicians from 36 graduate medical education programs and 23 graduates from eight graduate allied healthcare education programs walked the stage. ...

CSM Michael Grinston selected as 16th Sergeant Major of the Army
June 12, 2019 — Secretary of the Army Dr. Mark T. Esper and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley, announced June 11 that Command Sgt. Maj. Michael A. Grinston will assume responsibilities as the 16th sergeant major of the Army...

Departing SECAF Wilson's nine parallels for leadership
June 12, 2019 — As former Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson departed her civil service career to step into the role of President, University of Texas, El Paso, she passed along parting words of wisdom and encouragement to senior enlisted leader at a recent summit...

24th Air Force hosts NAF-wide cyber competition
June 12, 2019 — Eighty-three Airmen from 20 units across 24th Air Force competed in the first-ever 24th AF Cyber Competition at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland June 3-7. The event tested mixed and whole-unit teams against one another in offensive and defensive cyber battles...