Bike to Win

Members of Continuous Motion extreme team gain momentum on the biking course. The team placed second overall, finishing less than two minutes behind the first place team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Steve White)

Creating a Legacy

Local Boy Scout Troop 475 gathered at the Randolph Recreation Park at Canyon Lake Sept. 29 to support the Environmental Flight’s Wildflower Seeding Legacy Project, funded by the National Public Lands Day organization, which grants funding to support environmental initiatives. This is the third year the flight has been awarded funding to plant native wildflower seeds with the intent of the flowers reseeding and repopulating naturally in the future. The boy scout troop earned service hours while learning the importance of native wildflowers to the ecosystem. (U.S. Air Force photo by Matt Kramm)

Public Health protects community

Staff Sgt. Carrie Powell checks the expiration date of milk cartons at the commissary during a food inspection. (U.S. Air Force photo by Don Lindsey)

Public Health protects community

Airman 1st Class Julieta Nunez uses a microscope for entomology research on mosquitoes. (U.S. Air Force photo by Don Lindsey)

Pilot for a Day

Joshua Wooten sits in the cockpit of a T-1 with Lt. Col. Dave Green (right) of the 12th Operations Support Squadron. (Photos by Don Lindsey)

Purple Heart recipient

Maj. Gen. Anthony Przybyslawski, Air Force Personnel Center commander, presents the Purple Heart to Roy Talbott, 84, a World War II veteran who served as a B-24 gunner with the 72nd Bomb Squadron in the Pacific Theater. (Photo by Steve White)

AETC welcomes new Vice Commander

Maj. Gen. Mark Welsh III pauses while touring the observation deck of the "Taj Mahal" building housing the 12th Flying Training Wing headquarters at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, Thursday, July 26. General Welsh replaces Lt. Gen. Dennis Larsen as Vice Commander of Air Education and Training Command. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Mike Hammond)

Checking vitals

Jennifer Coleman, (middle) licensed vocational nurse, and Senior Airman Lori Bryant, aerospace medical technician, check the vital signs of Airman Michael Debonis, of the 12th Medical Group.

Mosquito Man

Senior Airman Arthur Hyzer, of the 12th Medical Support Squadron, changes the filter of a mosquito net located on base. (Photo by Rich McFadden)

General Retires

Lt. Gen. Dennis Larsen, Air Education and Training Command vice commander, retires today after a career that began in 1971. General Larsen, a command pilot with more than 4,200 flying hours, has served in this capacity since April 2005. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Badger takes command of AF Manpower Agency

Col. Daniel Badger Jr., addresses members of the Air Force Manpower Agency after taking command of the unit Tuesday. (U.S. Air Force photo by David Terry)

Afghan military leader visits base

Lt. Col. Chris Schweinsberg (right), of the 559th Flying Training Squadron, shows Maj. Gen. Mohammad Dawran, Afghan National Army Air Corps commander, a T-6 Texan II on the west flight line Monday. (U.S. Air Force photo by Joel Martinez)

Intramural volleyball championship

Air Education and Training Command’s Mark Baer blocks a shot at the net against the 12th Communications Squadron during the intramural volleyball championship June 21. (U.S. Air Force photo by Rich McFadden)

Track star

Jayla McArthur, daughter of Master Sgt. James and Lucy McArthur, was recently honored as the San Antonio Express-News Girls Track Athlete of the Year. (U.S. Air Force photo by Rich McFadden)

Arts and Crafts Center

Mark Poppe, wood skills center customer, uses the facility’s equipment to build a shadow box for his wife’s retirement. (U.S. Air Force photo by Rich McFadden)

Arts and Crafts Center

Lt. Col. James Taylor of the 12th Flying Training Wing prepares matting for a painting while at the arts and crafts center’s frame shop. (U.S. Air Force photo by Rich McFadden)

12th Flying Training Wing historians

Pete Law (left) and Lane Bourgeois, 12th Flying Training Wing historians, review information from the office’s history repository. (U.S. Air Force photo by Rich McFadden)

Operation FLAGS

Operation FLAGS participants try on gas masks like those their parents would be issued before a military deployment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Rich McFadden)

Operation FLAGS

Operation FLAGS volunteers show children how to do pushups as part of an obstacle course at the event. (U.S. Air Force photo by Rich McFadden)

Randolph AFB Futbol Club

Members of the Randolph Air Force Base Futbol Club show off their second place trophy and medals from the Texas State Soccer Association South Cup Tournament May 20 at the Pepsi Sports Complex in Schertz, Texas. (Courtesy photo)

Father's Day tribute

Rebecca Meares-Jones with her father, Vance Meares, and her son Nathan

Father's Day tribute

Staff Sgt. Michelle Hild with her father, Ozzie Naveira

Tuskegee heroes honored

San Antonio Chapter Tuskegee Airmen Inc. members (left) applaud local Tuskegee Airmen (from left to right) Matthew Plummer, Dr. Granville Coggs, Dr. Eugene Derricotte, Warren Eusan, William Gray and John Miles after presenting them with bronze replicas of the Congressional Gold Medal that was presented to all Tuskegee Airmen earlier this year in recognition of their service and sacrifice to the United States during World War II. The presentation was part of the local chapter's 16th Annual Education Assistance Awards Banquet held June 9. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Lindsey Maurice)

Randolph IP to receive AF Combat Action Medal

Major Steven Raspet (left), 559th Flying Training Squadron flight commander, and then 1st Lieutenant Andrew Tenebaum, stand beside the A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft the pair flew in Afghanistan. Major Raspet will be presented the Combat Action Medal June 12 at the Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Va. (Courtesy photo)