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 Sgt. Mebea Demelash
Ulchi Freedom Shield 25: 55th Combat Engineer Company Squad Live Fire Exercise
302nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
Aug. 25, 2025 | 3:12
U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 55th Combat Engineer Company - Armored, 11th Engineer Battalion, 2d Infantry Division/ROK-U.S. Combined Division, conduct dismounting support by fire in conjunction with a live fire exercise during Ulchi Freedom Shield at the Rodriguez Live Fire Complex in South Korea, Aug. 26, 2025. Ulchi Freedom Shield is an annual combined exercise conducted in support of the ROK-U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty signed in 1953. This combined exercise program highlights the ironclad commitment between the two nations to maintain a robust combined defense posture and to defend the people of the ROK from any threat. (U.S. Army video by Sgt. Mebea Demelash)
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