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Air Guard announces SUPER-SIZED leadership school

MCGHEE TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn. — The Air National Guard’s training and education center in East Tennessee has scheduled a super-sized Airman Leadership School class, starting in early July and running through the first week of August, with hopes to graduate hundreds of Airmen across the nation.

Airmen should work with their supervisors as soon as possible to attend the class being held here at the Chief Master Sergeant Paul H. Lankford Enlisted Professional Military Education Center.

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Shirts’ symposium most significant, gathers hundreds

The Air National Guard’s training and education center hosted the largest gathering of Air Force First Sergeants in recent memory when at least 217 of them met on the campus in East Tennessee this week for a continuing education symposium.

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Education center reflects on 50 years: Part Four – Bridging the centuries

The Air National Guard’s I.G. Brown Training and Education Center celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

In honor of a half-century of learning, this feature series highlights TEC, from its first classes in a World War II-era aircraft hangar to the present day. Part Four looks back at 1998 to 2008.

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TEC 50th Anniversary: Here are the events

This summer will be a big one for the Air National Guard’s primary campus for training and education in East Tennessee. The I.G. Brown Training and Education Center will celebrate its 50th anniversary as an organization with a morning celebration, scheduled for July 20; notwithstanding, there’s an NCO Academy Graduate Association celebration banquet in the works the night prior, on July 19.

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Education center reflects on 50 years: Part Three – Physical, technical junctures

The Air National Guard’s I.G. Brown Training and Education Center in East Tennessee celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

In honor of a half-century of learning, this feature series highlights TEC, from its first classes in a World War II-era aircraft hangar to the present day.

Possibly no other period significantly transformed TEC than its third decade. Part Three looks back at 1988 to 1998.

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Video highlights Airman’s service in auto accident

MCGHEE TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn. – A video news report from the Air Guard’s TEC-TV studios here recently shared one Airman’s story about a quick decision to help a stranger at a roadside accident outside the East Tennessee Smoky Mountains.

Despite the event occurring more than a year ago, Staff Sgt. Thomas Swanson, a public affairs specialist, produced the video while training in March with TEC-TV’s Production Branch and after hearing from others about Tech. Sgt. Jesse E. Ball’s compelling story.

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Education center wins nine National Guard media awards

The Air National Guard’s I.G. Brown Training and Education Center was named a winner Friday of nine awards in the 2017 National Guard Bureau Media contest, including awards for videography, graphic design, and writing.

“TEC has talent!” said Col. Kerry Lovely, commander, in a staff-wide email congratulating the awardees.

Awardees will compete in the service-level awards. TEC has received more than two dozen broadcast and video production awards since 1998 from the Department of Defense’s media competitions, not including a significant amount of individual awards earned by former and current staff.

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