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  • Major General Lindell speaks at SUPT Class 10-09 graduation

    The graduation speaker for Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 10-09 offered the graduates and their guests words of wisdom and advice at their ceremony May 21. Maj. Gen. Jay Lindell, Director, Global Power Programs, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition,

  • Blaze Soccer Team Selected to Compete in U.S Soccer National Cup

    Beginning tonight, the Columbus BLAZE Varsity Soccer Team will travel to compete in this year's U.S. National Cup being hosted in Tuscaloosa, Ala., held this year at the University of Alabama's Student Recreation Center. This prestigious adult soccer tournament is played every year, and each team

  • Eight BLAZE Team members selected for promotion to master sergeant

    Eight BLAZE Team members were selected Thursday for promotion to E-7.Those to be promoted to master sergeant are:- Tech. Sgt. Naressa Allen, 14th Medical Support Squadron- Tech. Sgt. Jennifer Baty, 14th Medical Operations Squadron- Tech. Sgt. Martin Hardin, 14th Flying Training Wing Maintenance

  • Thunderbird eight flies with the 50th FTS

    While the Thunderbirds team departed for home late Monday morning after their six-day stay at Columbus, one pilot, her crew chief and a select few maintainers, stayed behind with the number eight aircraft.Shortly after engine start Saturday afternoon to begin the Thunderbirds Wings over Columbus

  • BLAZE Team members graduate from CCAF

    Fifty-six Air Force members recently received their Community College of the Air Force degrees here May 17 at the Columbus Club. The graduates are as follows: 14th Civil Engineer Squadron- Master Sgt. Jason Baty, Human Resource Management- Staff Sgt. Kristen Denney, Fire Science -Staff Sgt. Justin

  • Columbus AFB opens new main gate

    Columbus Air Force Base leaders gathered Friday to commemorate the completion of yet another base construction project . The red ribbon across the new Main Gate was officially cut April 30 by 14th Flying Training Wing Commander Col. Roger Watkins and deputy 14th Mission Support Group Deputy

  • General Kane speaks at SUPT Class 10-08 graduation

    The Commander, Spaatz Center for Officer Education, and Commandant, Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., spoke at the graduation of Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 10-08, April 30 at the Kaye Auditorium. Maj. Gen. Robert Kane offered words of wisdom and advice to the

  • Law day challenge from the legal office

    Every year on May 1, Americans recognize Law Day. When he established Law Day on May 1, 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower sought to highlight and honor, for all Americans, our enduring legal culture. Further, Law Day was founded, during the cold war, to contrast Democracy with the tyrannical and