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!

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Video by Capt. Jennifer French
REMARKS: “The Rock” Welcomes New Commander During Change of Command Ceremony in Vicenza
173rd Airborne Brigade
June 11, 2025 | 10:32
U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade watch as outgoing 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Infantry Regiment commander Lt. Col. Sheldon E. Broedel and incoming commander Lt. Col. William T. Freakley deliver remarks during a change of command ceremony at Caserma Del Din in Vicenza, Italy, June 12, 2025. The ceremony marked the official transfer of leadership for “The Rock.”

The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army’s Contingency Response Force in Europe, providing rapidly deployable forces to the U.S. European, African, and Central Command areas of responsibility.

(U.S. Army video by Capt. Jennifer French)
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