Now showing: Dec. 6 edition of AFTV News

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SAN ANTONIO (AFPN) --  Two inspirational stories headline the latest edition of Air Force Television News. In the first, Staff Sgt. John Anderson profiles the story of Lt. Col. Andrew Lourake, a pilot whose flying career seemed doomed after his leg was amputated. Instead, through hard work and rehabilitation, Colonel Lourake is now back at the controls of an Air Force aircraft, his career reborn. The second story involves Capt. Terry Tyree Jr., who after 14 years in the Air Force, wears three of the service’s five aeronautical badges.

Tech. Sgt. Bill Scherer reports from Balad Air Base, Iraq, to show how Global Positioning Satellite technology is giving fighter pilots a new weapon in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Also at Balad, Tech. Sgt. Joy Josephson reports on a clinic at the sprawling Air Force-run hospital that stays busy treating “nonwar” injuries.

Staff Sgt. Jeramie Brown is at Kigali, Rwanda, covering an Air Force operation that is trying to stem a humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of neighboring Sudan.

At Lajes Field, Azores, Staff Sgt. Marty Rush chronicles a half century of television broadcasting service to servicemembers and their families. The station at Lajes was the first in the service to offer television programming to Airmen and their families.

Staff Sgt. Michael Noel is at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., to report on a school that prepares Airmen for space and missile defense. And, Tech. Sgt. Pachari Lutke “cowboys up” to profile an intercontinental ballistic missile crew Airman at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo., whose other life involves very big and very angry bulls.

Air Force Television News is a biweekly production of Air Force News Service. It is distributed on videotape to more than 3,000 military and civilian outlets worldwide, and is seen on some 600 cable TV outlets nationwide. It is also available on the Internet at www.af.mil, and can also be seen regularly on the Pentagon Channel. The program is also offered with closed captioning. Viewers can comment on the program by sending e-mail to aftvnews@afnews.af.mil.