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Education center reflects on 50 years: Part Four – Bridging the centuries — May 31, 2018

Academy of Military Science officer cadets navigate an obsticle during thier training, August 10, 2008, on McGhee Tyson Air National Gaurd Base in East Tennessee. (U.S. Air Naitonal Guard file photo)

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

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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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For a retired colonel, this academy’s Hall of Fame — July 1, 2015

Maj. Edmund C. Morrisey, commander and commandant of the Air National Guard's first enlisted professional military education center, awards the NCO academy honor flight ribbon near the flight line here in 1969. The retired colonel served as commander for more than 15 years of what is today's I.G. Brown Training and Education Center. (U.S. Air Force file photo/Released)

For a retired colonel, this academy’s Hall of Fame

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The umpteenth time that he drove here to the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center, retired Col. Edmund C. Morrisey arrived early to exercise among the other retirees and Airmen in Wilson Hall. He parked in his usual parking spot and wished good mornings to passersby.

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