Sheppard Air Force Base News

Our local men and women continue to step forward to serve their country, and in many cases, the world.

Protecting personnel physically and mentally is a job many people at Sheppard Air Force Base do every day, but their efforts are highlighted after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood on Thursday claimed the lives of 13 people.

Authorities shot the gunman, and the violence was believed to be the worst mass shooting in history at a U.S. military base.

VA North Texas Health Care System /Sam Rayburn Memorial Veterans Center and the City of Bonham will host the 19th annual Regional Veterans Day Program, Friday, Nov.

The Air Force chief of staff on Monday announced two general officer assignments: Brig.

Staff Sgt. Philip Baham III, an HVAC instructor with the 366th Training Squadron, appears with his son Kade, 10, after winning the Sheppard Air Force Base 'Family of the Year' honors at the annual Sheppard Military Family Appreciation Night on Thursday at the Multi-Purpose Events Center in Wichita Falls.

Husbands and wives offer support, but recently another group gained recognition when an organization produced a film telling the story of military children.

Airman Andrew D. Smith graduated recently from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

Staff Sgt. Martin Schweizer, a weapons journeyman from the German air force Flying and Training Center at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., helps perform post-flight maintenance on a PA-200 Tornado Oct.

Capt. Nicholas Giglio, previously stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base, died in a training collision off the coast of South Carolina Thursday night.

A play titled "Domestic Violence, the Musical?" is an admitted head-scratcher - but it's doing its job, according to the Mesa man who wrote the script and is directing it.

Milling asphalt, pouring concrete, repairing hangar doors, upgrading electricity distribution and other construction work at Dyess Air Force Base has created or saved an estimated 186 jobs so far in Taylor County.

Ginny Green plays a victim during "Domestic Violence ... The Musical?" at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. Green depicts the role of a woman in an abusive relationship who struggles to find a way out.

Randy Cooper, bottom, and Kevin Kee work in the basement of the Central Boys Girls Club in preparation for the Chamber of Horrors in 2008.

Dianne Costa like most Mayors, receives a lot of invitations as Mayor of Highland Village, so it wasna t until a second invitation was followed up by phone calls that Costa realized it was Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr.

The Air Force on Monday took another step to improve its embattled nuclear program, launching a "nuclear accountability" course at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas.

Sheppard Air Force Base hosted an air show and open house October 10 and 11 of 2009.

All individuals and vehicles are subject to search upon entering the base for the air show.

Photo by Stacy Johnson/Times Record News Staff Sgt. Brianna Hunt shows a young Air Show attendee how to pull gauze from a dummy patient in the 82nd Training Wing's technical training tent at the Sheppard Air Force Base Open House and Air Show on Saturday.

A move by the services to combine their enlisted medical training will bring more than 24,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen here every year, starting next June.