Accelerate Change: Empowered Airmen

We live in a world that is driven by rapidly changing technology and an environment that includes aggressive and capable global competitors. Airmen are key to cutting unnecessary bureaucracy, recognizing and understanding our competition, and thinking of creative ways we can reshape the design of our Air Force. The Air Force must accelerate, must change, and must prepare for the future!

This page is dedicated towards highlighting the accomplishments of our talented Airmen at all levels and to show the impact they can make when they are informed and empowered to problem solve and make smart recommendations and decisions.

 

 

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Video by Staff Sgt. Seth LaCount
AKARNG UH-72A Lakota helicopter maintenance B-Roll
Alaska National Guard
Oct. 3, 2024 | 2:14
Alaska Army National Guardsmen assigned to the 207th Aviation Troop Command conduct maintenance on two UH-72A Lakota helicopters near the Bryan Army Airfield on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Oct. 3, 2024. The crew executed the maintenance in preparation for an upcoming deployment in support of U.S. Customs and Border Protection as part of the federal Southwest Border Mission.

Under the direction of U.S. Northern Command and Joint Task Force North, the Alaska detachment will deploy two UH-72A Lakota helicopters along with aircrew, a maintenance team, and additional support personnel along the Southwest border. Guardsmen will support the SWB mission in a federally funded, Title 10 status.

(Alaska National Guard video by Seth LaCount)
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