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Mentoring is a relationship in which knowledge and skills are shared between members in a way in which everyone benefits. Often a more senior person is mentoring a junior person, but mentorship can happen between any two individuals. Mentoring will help Airmen and Guardians discover their strengths by achieving their full potential through a structured, trusting mentoring relationship.

 

 

GET INVOLVED

Find a mentor and become a mentor!  It’s easy to do both by registering in MyVector.  In 2021, we completely redesigned the Mentoring platform in MyVector based on your feedback. New features include:

  • Ability to self-identify as someone seeking a mentor or someone who wants to be a mentor
  • Track the status of their mentoring requests
  • Updated Resources page
  • Enhanced messaging capability that allows users to send messages to mentors
  • Additional search filters:
  • ethnicity, race, disability, Exceptional Family Members Program (EFMP), MAJCOM, organizations, and ranks
  • Ability for mentees to share documents with mentor
  • Sister Service mentor/mentee enabled capability
  • CFM ability to assign mentors to mentees (Spring 2022)

Log into MyVector, check out the new capabilities, and find your mentor today at https://myvector.us.af.mil!

 

 
560th Flying Training Squadron hosts the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Flyers
502nd Air Base Wing
Video by Sarayuth Pinthong
March 28, 2023 | 1:03
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Sweet, retired, Lt. Col. Dick Francis, retired, Maj. Lynn Beens, retired, and Capt. Charles Jackson, USAF 1965-1979, became the next four Freedom Flyers during a T-38 Talon flight with Instructor Pilots from the 560th Flying Training Squadron, Mar. 23, 2023, at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas.

Since 1973, all repatriated combat pilots physically able to return to active flying have come to the 560th Flying Training Squadron for requalification training. As a final chapter in Operation homecoming, the squadron has flown 209 Freedom Flyers and many of those returned to active-duty flight status. The first flight for each returning pilot with the 560th granted what the last flight in Southeast Asia should have been. Traditionally, after each pilot completed his last flight in theater, his comrades greeted him on the flight line to celebrate a safe last landing. A bottle of champagne was passed around to commemorate the occasion and to pause briefly in remembrance of those who had not returned. Each year, the 560th hosts a reunion of “Freedom Flyers” commemorating the anniversary of Operation Homecoming. Scheduled events include static displays, fly-bys, a wreath laying ceremony, a POW symposium, and a formal banquet. In 2023, the 560th honors four more Freedom Flyers which will commemorate 50 years of this unique connection between the 560th Flying Training Squadron the men that returned from captivity with honor. (U.S. Air Force video by Sarayuth Pinthong) More

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INSTALLATION MENTORING CHALLENGE

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In observance of National Mentoring Month, we have a goal of increasing Airman and Guardian mentoring profiles and pairs by 20%. The winning installation will have the opportunity to participate in a virtual mentoring session.