More than 300 guests showed up to witness the last class of aeromedical evacuation crewmembers graduate from flight-nurse training at the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks City-Base in San Antonio. The school is relocating to a new facility on the grounds of Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, courtesy of BRAC 2005. Classes will resume there in May. “As we go up north, we look forward to this new start as an opportunity to improve on what we already do well,” said Capt. Shane House, an instructor at the school, during the graduation ceremony in late January. He added, “We are always striving for excellence, and that is what we will do at Wright-Patt.” The flight-nurse training program has been at Brooks since the early 1960s. (Brooks City-Base report by E’Lisa Wilcox) (See also Wright-Patt Gears Up for New Additions from the Daily Report archives)
Earlier this week, the People’s Republic of China confirmed it is halting its nuclear arms control talks with the U.S., in retaliation for the U.S. continuing to sell arms to Taiwan. The move reinforces a “pattern of behavior” from Beijing, experts say.