FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas ~ 10 JAN 2023

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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 (USAF) 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 World War II.

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

The 80th Flying Training Wing (80 FTW), also at Sheppard, conducts the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) program, a multi-nationally manned and managed flying training program chartered to produce combat pilots for both USAF and NATO. This internationally manned and managed flying training program is the only one in the world.

The host unit on Sheppard Air Force Base is the 82d Training Wing, whose mission makes it the most diversified training base within AETC. It is a non-flying wing that conducts all technical training at Sheppard. The 982d Training Group (982 TRG) provides instruction in a wide range of specialties at Sheppard and also at more than 60 USAF installations worldwide.

The 82d Mission Support Group (82 MSG) and the 82 Medical Group (82 MDG) support these organizations. Together with the 80th Flying Training Wing more than 7 million U.S. and allied warriors have been trained.

The 80th Flying Training Wing launches 50,000 sorties per year and is recognized as the busiest joint-use airfield in the Air Force. Its 201 aircraft flew about 250 training missions per day in 2017, which equates to more than 66,000 flight hours annually.

The wing delivers more than 200 Undergraduate Pilot Training graduates annually, along with 150 graduates of Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals and Pilot Instructor Training graduates. Fourteen NATO countries participate in the unique Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program.

Learn More Abou Sheppard Air Force Base HERE!!

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[TigerHawk]

HEY, SKY DANCER,

I KNOW YOU LOVE FLYING! I GOTTA TELL YOU A STORY.

BACK IN’01, I’M ON A FLIGHT TO FL SITING BY A WINDOW SEAT LOOKING OUT AT A CARPET OF BRIGHT WHITE COTTON BALLS BELOW ME STRETCHING OUT TO THE HORIZON. A KID ON MY RIGHT IN HIS LATE TEENS SAYS, “WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?”

“THE CLOUDS BELOW US.”
“WHY?”
“I WAS JUST THINKING THAT LESS THAN A CENTURY AGO, NO HUMAN BEING HAD EVER SEEN SUCH A SIGHT.”
HE SAID, “YEAH, SO?”

I FELT LIKE GRABBING HIS SKINNY LITTLE NECK AND POPPING HIS HEAD OFF! A COMPLETE LACK OF WONDER, AWE, SOUL.

YOU GET TO EXPERIENCE THAT AWE AND WONDER PRACTICALLY EVERY WEEK! I ENVY YOU!...AND YOU GET PAID FOR IT!!! HOW GREAT IS THAT?!?!?!

[TigerHawk]

GOOD FOR YOU! HOPE IT DIDN’T MESS W/ YOUR BACK ANY. TALK ABOUT YER BASIC “GO A LOT OF MOUTHS TO FEED!”

THERE’S A CROWD YA DON’T WANT TURNIN’ ON YA! LOL!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, lauren, for today's Road Trip: Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas.

[TigerHawk]

THAT WOULD BE “GOT.”

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

I hope you made it through the rest of the afternoon with no more corrections coming in.

[radu]

My back feels all the hauling but it’ll be ok by tomorrow.

I definitely don’t want to run out of food for these critters. They WAY outnumber me and things could get ugly. LOL

[luvie]

Thanks for a great Road Trip, lauren. We were there for 2 years. Hubby was permanent party in portable generator repair. We officially left there for hubby to go to Korea for a year the day that President Kennedy was killed.

[TigerHawk]

YEAH, THAT WAS MY THOUGHT, AS WELL.

I’LL BET THEIR COMBINED WEIGHT OUT WEIGHS YOU, TOO! AND THERE’S SO MANY OF THEM YA JUST CAN’T HELP BUT TURN YER BACK ON A BUNCH OF THEM AT ONCE. KEEP ‘EM WELL FED! LOL!

[SkyDancer]

LOL Good one!

[Mark17]

My son is STILL flying for the USAF. He rather likes flying too. 🤗😁😀

[SkyDancer]

PS: From the founding of our country to the time we landed on the moon was only 193 years - or - from the Wright Bros. first flight to the moon landing was only 66 years also less than a hundred years from the ending of the War of Secession.

[SkyDancer]

Good for him!

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

Cool that you have history with this base.

[radu]

LOL! Yep, their combined weight is way more than I weigh.

There are always a few behind me, no matter where I am in the house. I’m always surrounded. At the moment, four are around the desk chair and five are on the bed behind me.

[vetvetdoug]

I went to HS in the city at the North end of the runway at Sheppard AFB. Burkburnett is a small town with many retired military and a very good school district that is independent from Wichita County.

[luvie]

Hey there, radu!

It was a good base and we liked living in Wichita Falls...except during tornado season. There was a huge deadly one about a month after we moved.

[radu]

Can’t say any place is fun when tornados rip through, killing people. Fortunately, it’s not every day and you were able to enjoy the two years you lived there.

[Sporke]

April 10, 1979? That was the date of our big twister. It made the Guiness Book for a few years.

[Mark17]

Where else could he learn to fly, and get someone else to pay for it? 🤗🤪😀😁😆

[luvie]

That was one of them. The one I was thinking of just about destroyed the base hospital among other things in the city.