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Air Guard’s Lankford EPME Center graded HIGHLY EFFECTIVE in Program Management

U.S. Air Force Airmen in consideration for awards stand at their graduation ceremony for Noncommissioned Officer Academy, Class 20-1, November 20, 2019, at the Chief Master Sergeant Paul H. Lankford Enlisted Professional Military Education Center on McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base in East Tennessee. (U.S. Air National Guard photo/Master Sgt. Mike R. Smith)

MCGHEE TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn. – The Air National Guard’s primary campus for training and education in East Tennessee recently achieved the highest grade awarded after a U.S. Air Force review of its enlisted education for total force Airmen.

The Chief Master Sergeant Paul H. Lankford Enlisted Professional Military Education Center, a division within the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center, earned HIGHLY EFFECTIVE by the U.S. Air Force’s Thomas N. Barnes Center for Enlisted Education in a Program Management Review.

“COVID-19 can’t stop the passion and energy of Team TEC!” said U.S. Air Force Col. Kenneth Lozano, the commander, in an email to faculty and staff.

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Air Guard’s primary learning center transforms through homework

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The Enlisted PME classroom building is closed following COVID-19 guidelines at the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center campus on McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base in East Tennessee, March 27, 2020. (U.S. Air National Guard photo/Master Sgt. Mike R. Smith)

FRIENDSVILLE, Tenn. – The Air National Guard’s primary learning and broadcast center is generating military education solutions for the total U.S. Air Force in immediate and long term challenges, said its Airmen teleworking in East Tennessee this week.

The I.G. Brown Training and Education Center staff are following the guidance and directives of the CDC, the National Guard Bureau, and the Department of Defense concerning COVID-19, which includes personal distancing, teleworking, and other actions to stop the spread.

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Education center reflects on 50 years: Part Two – Building on success

Names of Honorary Faculty at the Air National Guard’s I.G. Brown Training and Education Center line the hallway on plaques in Spruance Hall on McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base in East Tennessee. The education center graduated is first professional military education students in NCO academy July 19, 1968, which marks its 50th anniversary this summer. (U.S. Air National Guard photo/Master Sgt. Mike R. Smith)

MCGHEE TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn. – In honor of a half-century of learning, this feature series highlights the Air National Guard’s I.G. Brown Training and Education Center, from its first classes in a World War II-era aircraft hangar to the present day.

How did the Air Guard set its education bar higher from the previous decade? Part Two looks back at 1978 to 1988.

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