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  • Laughlin's quarterly awards winners

    The 47th Flying Training Wing's quarterly awards winners were announced recently.The winners were:Airman of the Quarter Senior Airman Andrew Freitag, 47th MSG/SFS Non-Commissioned Officer of the Quarter Staff Sgt. Jennifer Michels, 47th OG/OSS Senior Non-Commissioned Officer of the Quarter Master

  • AFA hosts Team XL golfers

    Saturday May 2 featured a special treat when the Del Rio Air Force Association and its community partners teamed up to honor outstanding Laughlin employees with a free day of golf at Leaning Pines Golf Course. Eleven teams competed for prizes with the following standings: First place: The 47th

  • Laughlin shatters goal for 2009 AFAF campaign

    April 29 marked the final day of Laughlin's six-week campaign to raise money for the Air Force Assistance Fund. By the end of that final day, it was clear that not only did Laughlin reach their goal for the campaign; they shattered it by raising nearly $38,000. "For this year's campaign we set out

  • Laughlin's first night 'out 'on the town in 15 years

    "To the mess," yelled the first unlucky protocol perpetrator of the night before he downed a cup full of the unknown liquids from the grog bowl. After being the first member from Laughlin to be sent to the grog bowl during a wing dining out in 15 years, he turned the cup upside down on his head and

  • Chief of staff returns to roots

    Some 35 years ago, 2nd Lt. Norton Schwartz graduated Undergraduate Pilot Training at Laughlin Air Force Base leaving with a set of silver wings and a promising career with unlimited potential. On April 24, now Air Force Chief of Staff General Schwartz came full circle, returning to Laughlin AFB as

  • Laughlin welcomes new commander

    Mother Nature did her best, but even she couldn't stop the 47th Flying Training Wing's change of command ceremony; although she did make wing members hustle. Less than two hours before the ceremony, scheduled to start at 10:47 a.m. April 27, a weather advisory was issued with warnings of winds up to

  • Adventure Race V speeds through Laughlin again

    Making it the fifth year in a row, Laughlin hosted Adventure Race V to challenge nearly 400 people to take on a physically demanding 35-mile course. More than 50 teams hurried off in heats at the beginning of the race with a 26-mile bike ride that started on base and dared participants to peddle