• Alamo Wing walks the line

    You see them early in the morning before the fighters launch from the unit next door. Airmen, from the 149th Fighter wing, walking along the taxiway looking for foreign objects that could damage aircraft. In May, Alamo Wing Airmen took walking the line one step farther. Everyone from the newest

  • Reservist recognized for anti-drug victory

    Like the Global War on Terror, the war against drugs has more than one battlefield. The one closest to home is where one Reserve Airman chooses to make her battle stand. For her successful effort, she won a 2005 Government Employees Insurance Co. Military Service Award. Tech. Sgt. Anita Garcia is

  • Reserve doctor makes house call to developing nations

    As an Air Force doctor, he ran into a group of Texas reservists at Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany. There was no way to know that the chance meeting in 1998 would later affect the lives of thousands of people in developing countries. It took awhile for Dr. (Lt. Col.) Josef Schmid, 433rd Medical

  • GI Bill offers on-the-job-training paycheck

    Troops who don’t use their GI bill benefits for college tuition can receive a paycheck supplement at their first job, under a program administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The money is contingent upon the employer offering a VA-approved job training program. Many of those currently

  • Team Lackland saves 7-year-old

    Meaghan Ababa is resting comfortably at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles thanks to the many moving parts and total efforts of team Lackland and counterparts from March Air Reserve Base. Her doctors say it’s a miracle considering the trip the 7-year-old Hawaiian girl just completed. The journey began