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  • Goodfellow Tax Center to open with big changes

    This year's Goodfellow Tax Center is scheduled to officially open the week of January 29. However, there will be significant changes from last year. The biggest change deals with the actual location of tax preparation volunteers. In 2006 all volunteers operated out of the Tax Center at the base library, Bldg. 712. "This year, unit representatives
  • Chief Academic Training Advisor Master Sgt. Susan Boyd led a group of approximately 30 airmen sewing quilts for wounded soldiers and airmen. 311th students and staff members write messages of hope and inspiration on quilt squares for service members wounded in action.

    Quilts for wounded soldiers

    On a Friday night in December, when most Defense Language Institute students are out to dinner or a movie, a group of a dozen 311th Training Squadron students gathered for a quilting bee. Led by Chief Academic Training Advisor Master Sgt. Susan Boyd, the students are part of a group of approximately 30 airmen who sew quilts for wounded soldiers and
  • The commander of the 17th Training Group, Col. Scott George, and Mr. Wallace Boston, President of the American Public University System and American Military University, sat down to sign a memorandum of understanding Tuesday.

    Intel course grads get credits toward degrees

    Military students who attend intelligence technical training at Goodfellow will be able to receive college credits toward Bachelors and Masters degrees for those courses through the American Military University's graduate and undergraduate studies programs. A memorandum of understanding was signed Tuesday by the commander of the 17th Training
  • GOODFELLOW AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- Department of Defense Fire Academy students extinguish a jet fuel fire on a large frame aircraft trainer here recently. The 68-day course challenges students both physically and mentally. Goodfellow's Firefighter Apprentice Course, ranked No. 1 in the world for fire training, trains about 2,000 students a year including allied forces. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Michele G. Misiano)

    Fire school dishes out world-class training

    Sixty-eight training days. Four a.m. wake-ups and two-mile runs. "Large frame burns" searing at 1,200 degrees. Smoke. Heat. Noise. The firefighter trainees at the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy here endure exhaustive training in an effort to be the best. Dozens per year can't keep the pace, requiring them to pursue other career
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