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  • From father to mentor

    U.S. Air Force Airman Basic Leila Kehle, 82nd Training Wing student, trains alongside her father, Jacob Wagner, Boeing maintenance training systems site lead, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, April 3, 2026. Leila follows a similar career path as her father, who previously served as an instructor

  • Full circle moment: father and son serving together at McConnell AFB

    Jakob Harris was just a toddler when his dad decided to join the Air Force for the long-haul. However, for most of Harris’s childhood, the military felt like a distant and foreign concept. Harris was born and raised in one Tennessee town while his dad had multiple duty locations and deployments.

  • World War II veteran to receive Legion of Honor

    Retired Capt. Joe Kenneth Jones, a 100-year-old World War II Army infantry veteran, will receive the National Order of the Legion of Honor on Nov. 11, 2023, at Memorial Field, Clemson University, South Carolina.