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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Carrier Air Wing 5 Early Crew Returns to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan 2025
AFN Iwakuni
Dec. 2, 2025 | 0:29
U.S. Navy Sailors with Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5 return early to U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, to prepare for the main body’s arrival, Dec. 3, 2025. CVW-5 is currently deployed aboard aircraft carrier USS George Washington to support the United States’ mission to maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Isabella Mancini).
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