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  • Joint Maritime Safety and Security Teams from the Coast Guard load a USCG vessel during exercise Patriot Palm, Jan. 30, 2020, at Kalaeloa Airport, Hawaii. A team of several military branches participated with the 315th Contingency Response Flight from Joint Base Charleston in support of exercise Patriot Palm. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Della Creech)

    Multiservice exercise Patriot Palm enhances joint operability

    A joint team comprised of members from the Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Army and FBI participated with the 315th Contingency Response Flight from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina in support of Patriot Palm.
  • A maintainer from the 18th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron prepares to fuel an F-15 Eagle during Exercise Rumrunner at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, Jan. 10, 2020. Airmen from the 18th Wing operate in a safe and e3nvironmentally conscious manner and adhere to strict standards set by Department of Defense and host-governments at all times. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Benjamin Raughton)

    18th Wing, joint partners execute first WestPac Rumrunner exercise

    With the evolving security environment in the Indo-Pacific and to further support a safe and secure region, the 18th Wing spent months designing WestPac Rumrunner as an exercise to train counter-air capabilities and strengthen joint interoperability. In addition to air tactics and joint interoperability, Airmen were charged with ensuring continuous airpower by using tactics derived from Pacific Air Force’s agile combat employment, or ACE, concept of operations.
  • U.S. Air Force Capt. Daniel Hill, incoming commander, addresses the audience during the activation and assumption of command ceremony of Detachment 2, Combat Training Squadron, Sept. 17, 2019, at Joint Base San Antonio-Medina Annex, Texas.

    6th CTS activates new TACP training detachment

    Air Force TACP specialists embed with Army and Marine units on the frontline and are responsible for directing air and artillery strikes from forward ground locations. These highly trained experts go through intense physical, mental and technical training in order to withstand the demanding conditions of battle and provide their team with the firepower they need for continued success on the battlefield.
  • 39th Airlift Squadron hits west coast skies, drops 200 Marines

    39th Airlift Squadron hits west coast skies, drops 200 Marines

    This training was designed to prepare 39th Airlift Squadron aircrew for future deployed operations in mountainous terrains.
  • U.S. Air Force Airman Kristina Schneinder, 312th Training Squadron student, leads Airman Emalie Lemons, 312th TRS student, in a textbook style approach to a mock vehicle fire outside the Louis F. Garland Department of Defense Fire Academy on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, July 11, 2019. Schneinder and Lemons were trained in the classroom how to approach a live fire and what angle to spray the water hose for hood and undercarriage fires before their hands on experience. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Airman 1st Class Abbey Rieves/Released)

    Guardsman graduates 3rd fire academy at top of class

    Airman Kristina Schneider, a 40-year-old mother of two, surprised everyone not only with her age or gender, but also with her level of success in the classroom and outside.
  • U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Zachary Moore, 315th Training Squadron instructor, suggests a conceivable threat to the flight path of Airman 1st Class James Bullock’s, 315th TRS student, F-35 Lightning II aircraft prop in Di Tommaso Hall on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, July 10, 2019. Critical thinking skills are paired with hands-on maneuvers to help the intelligence students identify, analyze and recommend counter tactics in order to offer future intelligence training for air crews in the operational Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Abbey Rieves/Released)

    Goodfellow AFB embraces National Defense Strategy

    Falling under the Air Education and Training Command, Goodfellow AFB builds a more ready, resilient and rapidly innovative force by modernizing learning inside its 250,000 square feet of secure training facilities.
  • U.S. Air Force Col. Troy Pananon, 100th Air Refueling Wing commander, poses for a photo at RAF Mildenhall, England, July 9, 2019. Pananon served five years as an enlisted Marine prior to receiving his commission from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Fla., in 1996. He was initially assigned as a maintenance officer at Hurlburt Field, Fla., and then attended Undergraduate Pilot Training at Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Benjamin Cooper)

    From enlisted marine to 100th ARW commander

    The son of immigrant parents from Thailand, Col. Troy Pananon, 100th Air Refueling Wing commander, didn’t have a long family military tradition to lean on, so he made his own instead.
  • WW Games

    2019 DoD Warrior Games underway in Tampa

    This is the second time the Warrior Games are being held in public venues and not on a military installation. The games are free to watch, open to the public and offer a rare opportunity to watch and be inspired by wounded warriors who have shown incredible resilience as they overcome significant physical and psychological challenges to compete in adaptive sports all around Tampa.
  • Over 50 service members from the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps Reserve and Air National Guard who participated in an Innovative Readiness Training project May 18 through June 1.

    Civil engineer Airmen participate in IRT project

    The mission for the two-week period was to provide a concrete slab for a new science, technology, engineering and math lodge facility, clear and grade the surrounding area and begin building walls, if time allowed.
  • Master Sgt. Allen Clutter, a flight engineer attached to 514th Flight Test Squadron, performs a pre-flight functional flight check on a U.S. Navy C-130 Hercules April 11, 2019, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. (U.S. Air Force photo by Cynthia Griggs)

    Enlisted aircrew paramount to C-130 Hercules flight testing

    Not many people know that a small contingent of experienced enlisted C-130 aircrew reside at Hill Air Force Base. They are charged with the depot support flights of Air Force overflow, and Navy and Marine Corps aircraft.

  • Next F-35 training squadron to be located at Eglin AFB

    The Air Force announced May 9, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, is the preferred alternative to receive an additional F-35A Lighting II training squadron.
  • Caption: A U.S. Navy F-35C Lightning II is drogue refueled by a KC-10A during a training mission near Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, April 10, 2015. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Kelly)

    Aerial refueling probe light evaluations flown with KC-135: Effort to clear Navy, USMC F-35 night refueling envelope

    The F-35 Lightning II program recently completed testing on an improved lighting assembly with the KC-135 Stratotanker that will enable the Navy and Marine Corps F-35 variants to refuel behind the tanker at night. Flight testing of the redesigned light, which attaches to a refueling probe, was led by Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland, and supported by Edwards Air Force Base, California.
  • U.S. Airmen assigned to the 442nd Fighter Wing from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, secure and prepare A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft after arriving aboard Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Feb. 11, 2019.

    B-52s lead joint training across Hawaiian Islands

    Air and ground force elements came together across the Hawaiian Islands this week to jointly participate in close air support (CAS) training with U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bombers from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.
  • 315th CRF tests mettle in joint-service training mission Patriot Palm

    Airlift unit tests mettle in joint Patriot Palm exercise

    Teaming up with Federal Emergency Management Agency, the FBI, Army, Coast Guard and Marine Corps, the 315th Contingency Response Flight completed Exercise Patriot Palm, a joint-service emergency and natural disaster response exercise, coordinated by the Air Force Reserve. The event is designed to integrate first responders from federal, state and local agencies, and the military by providing rapid response training.
  • A U.S. Air Force Airman participates in the EOD 134 Memorial Workout at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 30, 2018. 380th Air Expeditionary Wing Airmen, along with coalition partners, participated in the workout to honor the 134 EOD technicians from the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps that have been killed since Sept. 11, 2001. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Mya M. Crosby)

    EOD 134 Memorial Workout

    Airmen assigned to the 380th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal flight hosted the EOD 134 Memorial Workout, Nov. 30.
  • Master Sgt. Boston poses for a photo.

    Airman completes Marine Corps NCO course

    On a muggy summer day in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, a Marine Corps instructor stood on a ledge overlooking a swamp. He looked out at his students, and his eyes found Master Sgt. Aretha Boston -- the only Airman in the platoon.
  • Tech. Sgt. Joel Putnam, a 94th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, left, and his brother, Staff Sgt. Jeremy Putnam, a 94th Maintenance Squadron aerospace propulsion technician, pose for a photo in front of a C-130H3 Hercules at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga. Joel and his brother Jeremy are both assigned to the 94th Maintenance Group at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Justin Clayvon)

    Brothers carry on family legacy in aviation

    Decades ago, a father took his two young sons to the aviation museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Although the father might have known it would be a great vacation for his family, he had no way of knowing the impact the trip would have on his sons’ future decision to join the Air Force.
  • The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), foreground, leads a formation of Carrier Strike Group Five ships as Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft and Navy F/A-18 Hornet aircraft pass overhead for a photo exercise during Valiant Shield 2018 in the Philippine Sea Sept. 17, 2018. The biennial, U.S. only, field-training exercise focuses on integration of joint training among the U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. This is the seventh exercise in the Valiant Shield series that began in 2006. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Erwin Miciano)

    Indo-Pacom Wraps Up Valiant Shield 2018

    U.S. military forces from the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command wrapped up exercise Valiant Shield 2018, Sept. 23rd, around the Marianas Island Range Complex and on Guam.
  • A pair of U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons, assigned to Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, fly over the Northern Territory, Australia, while receiving air-to-air refueling from a Royal Australian Air Force KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport aircraft during Exercise Pitch Black 2018, Aug. 7, 2018. This training focuses on exercising international forces in the planning and execution of large-scale offensive, counter-air and counter-land operations in a coalition environment against a capable adversary force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Savannah L. Waters)

    Air Force improves interoperability, strengthens Indo-Pacific partnerships

    Airmen from the 8th Fighter Wing, Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, concluded their participation in Exercise Pitch Black 2018 Aug. 17, following three weeks of training events conducted in Northern Territory, Australia.

  • DoD Announces Policy Change on Transfer of Post-9/11 GI Bill Benefits

    The Department of Defense issued a substantive change today to its policy on the transfer by service members in the uniformed services of Post-9/11 GI Bill educational benefits to eligible family member recipients.
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