Laughlin AFB News

Senior Airman Richard Weatherby and Airman 1st Class Alexander King prepare to test the masks on two Afghan lieutenants going through Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas.

Executive orders state energy usage must be reduced by three percent and water usage by two percent annually until 2012, and members of Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, have embraced the order and began to deliver.

In Vance Air Force Base's nearly 70 years of existence, 31,763 pilots have earned their wings there.

A pair of T-38 jets taxied to a stop on the windblown ramp at Vance Air Force Base Thursday afternoon, ending a flying mission with roots stretching back to World War I. The two jets had just concluded the final flight of the 3rd Fighter Training Squadron, Vance's Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals Unit.