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  • Laughlin Heritage Corner: December

    December is special to many people, and for many reasons. As a historian, it is special to me because it is the last month in the year: It is the end of that twelve-month cycle by which we measure our lives and all of our stories. Once December is over, we throw out the old calendar and open to the

  • Laughlin Heritage Corner: November

    November is a month of gratitude and togetherness in the United States, as we collectively prepare ourselves for Thanksgiving Day and the end of the year. One thing we should always be thankful for is our forbearers—the men and women who built, over thousands of years, the world that we live in

  • Laughlin Heritage Corner: September

    September brings with it a change of seasons—summer’s heat reluctantly withdraws at the behest of burgeoning fall. With the shift in weather, we can also observe a number of important historical anniversaries this month.

  • The Laughlin Heritage Corner - April

    April is notable for many reasons. In April 1989, for example, Congress designated Laughlin AFB a remote facility for Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR)—making it the only facility so designated in Air Training Command (now AETC). April also saw the opening, twenty years ago, of the First Term

  • The Laughlin Heritage Corner with the 47 FTW Historian

    Here at Laughlin, we started training pilots for the first time in February 1943. We had spent all summer and fall in 1942 constructing and preparing the base for occupation, and it was finally time to fly. These first classes were small and had irregular start dates, but this was the very beginning