• Alamo Wing Staff Sgt. promoted to Captain

    Some people have an overwhelming compulsion built into their nature. For some, it is the desire to be successful in family matters. For others, it is career and income that drive them forward each day. For Captain Oliver George, the new officer in charge of the 433rd Explosive Ordnance Disposal

  • Starbase Kelly accepting applications

    For over twelve years Starbase Kelly, sponsored by the 433 AW, has offered a FUN, educational program for kids from the school districts around Kelly Field. This summer we want to again offer the same program to kids of Lackland AFB. We'll do aircraft tours, scientific experiments, teamwork and goal

  • Recruiter goes in circles with enlistee

    Life is a circle as 433rd recruiter Tech. Sgt. Michael Barnes discovered when he signed a prize recruit. That recruit was Robert Caldera, a traffic officer with the San Antonio Police Department. Last year, Caldera started to think about joining the military - again. The first time he served nine

  • Recruiter goes in circles with enlistee

    Life is a circle as 433rd recruiter Tech. Sgt. Michael Barnes discovered when he signed a prize recruit. That recruit was Robert Caldera, a traffic officer with the San Antonio Police Department. Last year, Caldera started to think about joining the military - again. The first time he served nine

  • New Emergency plan increases proactive national response

    Response plans in America have changed since 9-11 and the 2005 hurricane season. Air Force Reservists, including some from the Alamo Wing, play a part in those plans. On a national level, there are Reserve Individual Mobilization Augmentees in each state who advise Air Force base commanders, state

  • Alamo Wing Airmen feed Iraq war machine

    The drone of forklifts moving pallets breaks the smoke-filled haze as members of the 332nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron Aerial Port Flight work against the clock to expedite critical hub-and-spoke missions. Whether it's aircraft parts and ammunition, or fire trucks and heavily armored

  • Effective training requires readiness mindset

    During the February Unit Training Assembly, a group of insurgents attacked the gate that used to separate Lackland AFB from Kelly AFB. The insurgents were practice. The defenders were real. "The more you sweat in training, the less you'll bleed in war," said former Navy SEAL Capt. Richard Marcinko

  • Reserve flight medics get wounded home

    The 433rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron is getting the war wounded to medical facilities closer to their homes once they arrive in the U.S. The 433rd AES works with the detachment out of Scott AFB, Ill. for this rotation, while Travis AFB, Calif. and Andrews AFB, Md. are two other stateside bases

  • Lackland gets two new squadrons

    Two new squadrons were added to the 26 existing units of the Alamo Wing today in a ceremony marking the occasion. The 356th Airlift Squadron and the 733rd Training Squadron are part of the C-5 Formal Training Unit, Kelly Field, Lackland AFB, TX. The 356th AS, previously assigned to Wright Patterson