Lackland Air Force Base

assigned to the 20th Special Operations Squadron at East Airfield in the Republic of Vietnam. On November 26 a six man special forces army team were lifted into vietnam’s highlands near the cambodian border. Hours later they found themselves near a river with enemy forces on all sides. The leader called for immediate evacuation. The call was received by an air force air controller. Major Charles…

SMSgt Nicole L. Velsor is the Manpower and Equipment Force Packaging Manager for the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center, JBSA Lackland, Texas. She reviews and analyzes Manpower and Logistics Force Packages to determine UTC accuracy in the Type Unit Characteristics (TUCHA) file and ensures corrective actions and feedback to respective MAJCOMs. She was born in Queens, New York and attended Martin Van Buren H.S. and was a member of the Scholars Institute Program for excellence in…

confided in a friend that had enlisted in the Air Force and she told me about all the benefits, incentives, and possibility to travel. I took that information and did my own research to find an Air Force recruiter. This recruiter confirmed her information and also explained that I would have to…

Well i’m going to start out by first saying that my grandpa is a Air Force Veteran. He had said that the Air Force had changed who he was when he had first started out. He said that it made him grow up and be more responsible and able to do better and be a better person. He was in the Air Force from 1971 to 1988. While he was in the he had earned a lot of ribbons and medals and he was a high rank as well. My grandpa was proud of what he had done, we are all proud of him for what he did for us.…

odd name (pronounced ZEE-nit), the meaning of which, if there was a meaning, Jose never learned. Having passed a battery of medical tests, Zenit was procured by the U.S. military just after his first birthday and shipped to the kennel at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. There working dogs are initially trained by the 341st Training Squadron in “drive building, grip development, and environmental and social stability,” according to the Department of Defense. Days are regimented, the dogs…

In the beginning, the MHPI was centrally run by OSD Office of Competitive Sourcing and Privatization. DoD contracting personnel were not familiar with the complexity inherent in this new approach to military housing construction: unfamiliarity with these different kinds of negotiations, plus the new legal, financial, and budget issues that appeared as the program got underway. Therefore, progress in negotiation of contracts and beginning construction was notably slower than originally envisioned…

Military Working Dogs are the unsung heros of war. Military working dogs (MWDs) have served both the military and civilians with their courage and bravery and now it’s time for us to give back and give them good homes when they retire. A military working dog possesses traits of loyalty, devotion and protectiveness and have the heart of a soldier to do the right thing. In C.D. Watson’s article “Let’s Salute Our Canine Veterans! (Have You Considered Adopting One?),” he explains that their…

United States Armed Forces, one can go to college to obtain a degree and at the same time work hard to make it to the top, and the benefits start once they ship out to boot camp. Now some will use the excuse that they don’t want to die, but one has a better chance of getting in a car accident and dying than they…

My mother can recall conducting nuclear attack drills in her school in Chicago. Apparently the students were to get under their desks and not look out the windows. Being a prior Air Force nuclear weapons specialist, I can assure you that these drills were mainly something to do before you and everyone around you perished. It would have happened one of 2 ways; either instantly, in a flash of flame and debris, or slowly and painfully…

they are a Bachelors degree, basic life support certification, critical care RN, certification flight RN, etc (Flight Nurses). Whereas in the Vietnam war, nurses would be fresh out of college and ending up working at war as a flight nurse or even a base nurse. In my interview with Julie Dolphin, Julie said that the classes she had to go to were very specific. Julie even had to attend a class where they had a helicopter simulator that resembled the exact same a real helicopter would. Those were…