FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas ~ 30 NOV 2010

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas

Sheppard Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located five miles north of the central business district of Wichita Falls, in Wichita County, Texas, United States. It is the largest training base and most diversified in Air Education and Training Command. The base is named in honor of Texas Senator John Morris Sheppard, a supporter of military preparations before WWII.

The host unit at Sheppard is the 82d Training Wing (82 TRW), which provides specialized technical training, medical, and field training for officers, Airmen, and civilians of all branches of the military and other Department Of Defense agencies.

The host unit on Sheppard is the 82nd Training Wing whose mission makes it the most diversified training base in AETC. The 82nd TRW provides specialized technical training, medical and field training for officers, enlisted and civilians of all branches of the military including the Air Force Reserves, Air National Guard and other DoD agencies.

Courses, resident and nonresident, exceed 1,100. More than 87,000 people graduate from basic and advanced courses ranging from pharmacy to power production, aircraft maintenance to budget and data systems each year. The wing also supports undergraduate pilot training as well as flying training to students from 13 NATO nations through the 80th Flying Training Wing.

 The 82nd, 782nd, 882nd and 982nd Training groups administer the 82nd TRW's training programs. The base receives major operational support from the 82nd Mission Support Group and the 82nd Medical Group. The 82nd Training Group educates and trains officers and Airmen to replenish the combat capability of the Armed Forces.

Personnel assigned to the group develop lesson plans and instruct more than 200 maintenance officer, aircraft maintenance and munitions maintenance courses and 37 Career Development Courses. The group is responsible for more than 30,000 Air Force, Defense Department and international graduates annually.

Learn More About Sheppard Air Force Base HERE!!

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[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Taz!

[PROCON]

Hi Navy Bro!!

Had a great Thanksgiving and watched my share of football!

Weather is typical, wet and cool.

Good luck on your surgery, looks like I need surgery too, as I have 2 hernias..:=(

[ConorMacNessa]

My train was on time, but I understand the last train of the evening is operating 90 minutes late - glad I didn't have to wait around for it.

Knee surgery set for Monday the 13th of Dec.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[ConorMacNessa]

Two hernias? Ouch!!! hope you can get them resolved!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Doc!

Always great to see ya too!

But beware of the bad news today. Not a good day for the fore ward deployed.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

*HUG*
Good evening, Ma.

[Tanniker Smith]

Good evening, lauren! Good evening, all!

[PROCON]

Hi Taz!!

I hope your Thanksgiving went well, mine did!

Looks like surgery is in my immediate future as I have an umbilical AND an inguinal hernia; now I need to find a surgeon I can trust!

[ConorMacNessa]

No - six Army soldiers gunned down by a renegade wearing an Afghan uniform. Names of the Fallen not yet released. The shooter was subsequently killed.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mayor....hope you and the family had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul.

[Tanniker Smith]

For those of you that don't keep abreast of European politics and all that, there's a debate going on on reddit.com about the first lady of Spain vs. the first lady of France (photo, below):

Lively discussion, it is.

[BIGLOOK]

Thanks for tonight's road trip, Lauren. Seems you've been touring around Texas lately and got me to wondering if Goodfellow AFB was still in business so I looked it up. It is!

Maybe you could mosey on over to San Angelo sometime in the future.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

F-22 Raptor.
It's an actual photo captured at exactly the right moment when the water vapor trailing off the aircraft caught the sun in just the right way to refract it.
Photo by Bernado M. Malfiano

[mylife]

OMG! I was just watching American Pickers, and these guys just got a 1917 Indian V twin wit transmission,
A 1907 Glenn Curtis V twin and
A 1928 Excelsior motorcycle

Mr B would be salivating! LoL

[PROCON]

I need to get them resolved before the Army-Navy game so I can talk smack...:=)

[MS.BEHAVIN]

This is a road in Stevio Pass in the Italian Alps.
Check the brakes on the bike first, My!

[texas booster]

Grew up at Sheppard AFB after the Vietnam War. Missed the entire “60’s experience” being overseas with my parents, and to have returned to the US to any less conservative town would have been insane. My dad had the good sense to request Wichita Falls rather than a CA or MA base.

Great training for medical fields here, took great care of my parents until they passed.

[PROCON]

Lively discussion, it is.

I can imagine, but NICE shoes!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

That should read “Stelvio Pass”
Dang Typos!

[TASMANIANRED]

Yea, If I didn’t know that last week was the full moon.. I’d swear there was one out there.

It’s nuts in here.