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  • TULSA AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tulsa, Okla. - Tammie Smeltzer, professional and continuing education director for the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center, Tenn., teaches students about tests Feb. 24 during the Instructor Certification Program course. Smeltzer and her staff take the course on the road to certify satellite enlisted professional military education facilitators and Air Force specialty career trainers. They also teach the popular course from the TEC's campus. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Preston L. Chasteen/Released)

    Photo Slideshow: TEC in Tulsa brings value, certifications

    Tammie Smeltzer and Tech. Sgt. Clifton J. Boswell, Jr., with the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center's Professional and Continuing Education office were teaching classes on the road in Tulsa, Okla., this week for the Instructor Certification Program. The program is a two-week, intensive course that prepares satellite education facilitators and
  • MCGHEE TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn. - Tech. Sgt. Drew Carson sits with C-Flight of the U. S. Air Force's Noncommissioned Officer Academy 14-1 here Nov. 12, 2013, at the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center while he observes and evaluates another instructor. Carson is an active duty enlisted professional military education instructor with the Paul H. Lankford EPME Center. He said he likes coming to work each day. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Mike R. Smith/Released)

    Formula for an EPME instructor: Excellence = Experience + Desire

    "Everyone here is a professional and excellent at what they do."That's what Tech. Sgt. Drew Carson said when asked why he enjoys coming to work as an enlisted professional military education (EPME) instructor at the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center (TEC)."That's what makes me so successful," said Carson. "It's because I work among top notch
  • MCGHEE TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn. - Chief Master Sgt. Donald E. Felch, 12th commandant of the Paul H. Lankford Enlisted PME Center, thanks coworkers, family and friends for thier support in his 29 years of service in the U. S. Air Force. Felch ws honored in a retirement ceremony Oct. 16, 2013, at the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center. (U.S. Air National Gaurd photo by Master Sgt. Kurt Skoglund/Released)

    Photo slideshow: 12th Commandant, a look back

    The Paul H. Lankford Enlisted PME Center's 12th Commandant marked his retirement from 29 years of service with a ceremony here Oct. 16, 2013, at the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center. Chief Master Sgt. Donald E. Felch was honored amongst the Airmen, friends and family he served with and at the campus for Airman Leadership School and
  • MCGHEE TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn. - Tech. Sgt. Lakisha Croley, Air Force photographer, 1st Combat Camera Squadron at Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina, photographs bugler Tech. Sgt. Cheryl A. Przytula from the 139th Logistics Readiness Squadron from Missouri during morning reveille at the I. G. Brown Training and Education Center, Aug. 14, 2013. Both Croley and Przytula are attending the Noncommissioned Officer Academy here. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Kurt Skoglund/Released)

    Airman captures images of EPME studies

    Tech. Sgt. Lakisha Croley from the 1st Combat Camera Squadron is putting together her photo album on what she did this summer: Noncommissioned Officer Academy.Croley is an active duty Air Force photographer assigned at Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina. For the last six weeks she studied leadership here at the I.G. Brown Training and

  • Lankford Center Airmen rise in recognition

    Their recognition as top Airmen here this quarter recently rose above the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center to recognition as top Airmen serving for the Air National Guard Readiness Center.All three of the TEC's current Airmen of the Quarter were recently recognized as the ANGRC's Senior Noncommissioned Officer, NCO and Airman of the
  • SUMMIT POINT, W. Va. – Senior Master Sgt. Marcy Broadway takes a turn at a motorcycle track in West Virginia September 2012 with her Buell 998cc Lightning streetfighter. (Courtesy photo/Released)

    New ‘Shirt’ brings some daring

    Talk about situational awareness, following standards and calm professionalism, and Senior Master Sgt. Marcy Broadway's rather daring experiences have those valuable traits that are looked-for in a First Sergeant.There are the 38 times that she jumped out of an airplane, sometimes packing the very essential parachute herself, sometimes trusting
  • John Hawk is the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center's creator of Advanced Distributive Learning products for the Air National Guard. He sorts though loads of data, ideas, requirements and graphics to structure and develop online learning products for the total U.S. Air Force. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Kurt Skoglund/Released)

    ADL creator adds to Air Force's e-learning

    Learning. For John Hawk it often starts here with someone needing to train thousands of Airmen as effective and easy and economical as possible.Hawk is the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center's creator of Advanced Distributive Learning products for the Air National Guard. He sorts though loads of data, ideas, requirements and graphics to
  • MCGHEE TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn. – Tech. Sgt. Brian Zeisel with the 168th Security Forces Squadron, Alaska Air National Guard at Eielson Air Force Base recently graduated from Noncommissioned Officer Academy here at the Paul H. Lankford Enlisted Professional Military Education Center. Zeisel is a fulltime Alaska State Trooper who appears on the National Geographic Channel with his K9 partner “Argo.” (National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Kurt Skoglund)

    Alaska Trooper gains, gives at Air Force NCO academy

    Tech. Sgt. Brian Zeisel with the Alaska Air National Guard is modest about the recognition he gets from leading his Alaska State Trooper K9, "Argo," through some dangerous law enforcement dispatches.As a full time State Trooper with more than 10 years' service, thousands see Zeisel's patrols in Fairbanks, Alaska, on cable TV.That's because he is on
  • SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Vikki Traugot deadlifts during a November U.S. Powerlifting Association competition. Traugot is a top rated woman powerlifter in the nation and is the spouse of Air National Guard Senior Master Sgt. Andrew Traugot at the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center. (National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Andrew Traugot)

    Air Guard spouse sets bar as national woman powerlifter

    Competition brings out your best when you are a competitor, and for the spouse of one Air National Guard member it means lifting more weight than most men can grasp. In her personal best powerlift competition, Vikki Traugot benched 325 lbs., deadlifted 408 lbs. and squatted 480 pounds."My wife is currently the number three rated woman powerlifter
  • Chief Master Sgt. Jim Hotaling, Command Chief Master Sergeant of the Air National Guard, speaks to Airmen and Coast Guardsmen graduating from the Paul H. Lankford EPME Academy at the I. G. Brown Training and Education Center, here Feb. 14, 2013. Students attending the Noncommissioned Officers Academy and Airmen Leadership School totaled 314 for the six and five week classes. (National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Kurt Skoglund/Released)

    New ANG command chief makes first address, highlights professional development

    For his first official visit, the new Command Chief Master Sergeant of the Air National Guard traveled to the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center here to address students and faculty, Feb. 14. Chief Master Sgt. James Hotaling, only days after assuming his new role, served as guest speaker during a graduation ceremony for 314 Noncommissioned
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