March 14, 2020 COVID-19: Important Information for Reserve Citizen Airmen In an effort to inform Reserve Citizen Airmen and their families with facts on COVID-19 effects, Air Force Reserve leaders encourage all to visit the Air Force’s COVID-19 web page for the latest on the virus and how it is effecting the service. The site contains the latest DoD and Air Force
March 12, 2020 Military health officials begin screening Air Force basic trainees for COVID-19 Each trainee is screened by qualified medical professionals upon arrival at the BMT reception center and anyone identified as a potential infected person would then be isolated from the rest of the population and provided treatment. During screening, all appropriate Centers for Disease Control
March 12, 2020 DOD Halts Travel To, From COVID-19 Affected Countries In response to the growing coronavirus epidemic, Defense Department officials are looking to safeguard the health and safety of military and civilian personnel and their families.
March 12, 2020 MilTax: Military OneSource Offers Free Tax Prep Tax season can be a dreaded time of year for many people, but the Defense Department’s Military OneSource offers the MilTax program to ease filing stress for service members and their families.
March 11, 2020 Alamo Wing participates in Spurs Military Appreciation Night A military honor guard team, an American flag display, and an Airman singing the national anthem, officially opened the Military Appreciation Night at the San Antonio Spurs basketball game here March 10.Armed services members, family, and friends joined with other San Antonio residents to attend the
March 11, 2020 Honorary commanders tour Operations Group Eight 433rd Airlift Wing honorary commanders toured the 433rd Operations Group here March 7.The honorary commanders started the morning with a briefing on the group’s mission before a hands-on multi-aircraft virtual reality training system prototype demonstration, and flying in a C-5M Super Galaxy
March 11, 2020 Barrett points to recent activities as a clear example for why the US Space Force is needed Unlike the Cold War, when space was primarily the sole province of the United States and the Soviet Union, today “many European nations plus Japan, China and India and more than 40 countries are spacefaring with satellites, probes and sometimes human travelers.
March 10, 2020 Is the San Antonio Spurs Coyote an Air Force Pilot? There wasn’t a bird, but there certainly was a plane (or four) and - of all things - a coyote.In late February the well-known NBA mascot was sighted riding his motorcycle on the Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, taxiway, sparking a flurry of interest and speculation. What could he have been up
March 9, 2020 Texas State University ROTC fly C-5M Super Galaxy Members of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Detachment 840 with Texas State University visited the 433rd Airlift Wing and sampled the military with an incentive flight on the C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft here, March 7.
March 2, 2020 Foulois ushered dawn of military flight at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston 110 years ago Aviation pioneer Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois ushered in the dawn of military flight when he made his historic journey 110 years ago March 2.