U.S. Air Force Airmen enrolled in Airman Leadership School Class 20-1 exercised at the campus track on this foggy Monday morning, October 28, outside the Smoky Mountains at the Lankford enlisted professional military education center, in East Tennessee.
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Ebonie Hills, enlisted PME instructor and professional bodybuilder, spotlights TEC’s fitness equipment in this new video news series: Chalk Talk. In this episode, she talks about the assisted dip machine.* (U.S. Air National Guard video/Master Sgt. Mike R. Smith) #USAF #ANG #fitness #chalktalk
* Talk to a doctor before embarking on or ramping up any exercise. Always read/follow the manufacturer’s guidelines first on the safe and proper use of any equipment.
Airmen serving as faculty at the U.S. Air Force’s largest enlisted professional military education center considered their year of accomplishments this week just as the first NCO Academy and Airman Leadership School classes started for 2020.
U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the Air National Guard’s primary learning center in East Tennessee played a role in holding the Freddie J. Owens Women Veterans Summit, October 3, in Maryville, Tennessee.
“As a fellow woman veteran, I want to support and give back to the other women veterans,” Tech. Sgt. Renee Wiederspahn, a professional military education instructor at the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center, said.
Editor’s note: This is the second article in an ongoing series in which the Air National Guard’s I.G. Brown Training and Education Center staff and faculty share their perspectives and spark discussion about its lines of effort.
I gained a renewed value for a culture of acceptance this summer by joining my unit’s softball team in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Not having played much baseball in my life, I decided to play with the Air National Guard I.G. Brown Training and Education Center’s “Notorious TEC” when the captain, Sergeant Smyser, told me it was just for fun and that the team was not overly serious.
This 2008 assignment in Washington state allowed the videographer and me a moment/chance to hike on Mt. Saint Helens during the off hours. I was amazed at the size of some boulders, thrown miles by the eruption. We also set up a DVIDS satellite uplink in the field during the exercise. It was also one of those times when the event coordinators/officers tried to steal us into their personal use, and not understanding that we were independent reporters, not players in their training. Sometimes it took a phone call back to Arlington to straighten those things out. This was one of those moments.
By Tech. Sgt. Mike R. Smith | National Guard Bureau
FORT LEWIS, Wash. – In a training exercise that involved a suspected improvised explosive device releasing an unknown poisonous gas, the Washington National Guard’s 10th Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Team (CST) responded to the mock danger area May 2.
Their actions were part of a larger, national exercise hosted by the Department of Homeland Security called “National Level Exercise 2008” (NLE-08).
The multi-state venue joined federal, state and local responders May 1-8 in east and west coast training scenarios, which tested their ability to react to domestic emergencies.
Guardmembers here trained at the 52-building urban training center called “Leschi Town” on Fort Lewis. The comparative ghost town is an active-duty Army property on the southern end of the base’s 86,000 acres. Normally, it prepares combat Soldiers for military operations in urban terrain. Here, responders used it in NLE-08 to…
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Here’s a 2011 feature I wrote on the Air Force’s last piston-engine flight engineer in the DoD retiring. I thought for sure back then that the larger, total Air Force would have taken great interest in Chief Reinhart’s retirement and story, and highlighted his career, but the article was not picked up to more extensive circulation; this kind of baffled me many times in my career – what I believed was a nationally essential or unique Airman’s or Soldier’s story to tell was overlooked for no apparent reason. Me, I just could not ignore the end of an era in aviation.
The Air Force’s last serving reciprocating engine flight engineer took his final flight here today at the air base he enlisted at more than 41 years ago.
Chief Master Sgt. Michael Reinert retired from military service at Rosecrans Air National Guard Base Sept. 6 amongst the aviators he served and near the aircraft that he helped fly.
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