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  • Teak Action 21 Enhances U.S.-Australian Interoperability

    AF Week in Photos

    This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.
  • Spark Tank offers the opportunity to get their ideas in front of key enabling agencies that can share expertise and resources such as funding or personnel for the projects being presented and demonstrate pathways for intrepreneurs to make their initiatives successful.

    AFWERX crowns 2021 Spark Tank winner

    The Spark Tank event allows Airmen to offer improvements and solutions to the problems they face in everyday operations.
  • U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 8th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron offload a Negatively Pressurized Conex-Lite from a C-17 Globemaster III at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Aug. 3, 2020. The NPC-Lite is an isolated containment chamber designed to transport individuals with infectious diseases, such as COVID-19. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Lauren Parsons)

    Negative for Covid-19

    The Negatively Pressured CONEX and NPC-Light. A solution of transforming existing 40-foot CONEX containers into air-mobile biocontainment isolation wards.

  • Around the Air Force: Agile Flag 21-1, re-designed G-Suits, and Testing the Minuteman III

    Today’s look Around the Air Force highlights Air Combat Command’s “Agile Flag” exercise, incorporating the “Lead Wing” concept for agile combat employment, a test run of modified Advanced Technology Anti-Gravity Suit “G-suits” for female pilots, and an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test launch by Air Force Global Strike Command for increased global readiness and lethality.(Produced by Senior Airman Angelo Rosario)
  • F-15 Eagles taxing

    Agile Flag paves way for Lead Wings

    The lead wing for this exercise was the 366th Fighter Wing from Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, and 250 Airmen from six units from across the Air Force who participated to better understand the diverse requirements that will go into certifying the lead-wing concept for Air Combat Command.
  • A C-130H from the U.S. Air Force Reserve’s Colorado-based 302nd Airlift Wing, equipped with the Modular Airborne Firefighting System, flies over fires near Sacramento, California, after dropping retardant Aug. 3, 2020.

    MAFFS tackle largest wildfires in California history

    The rumble becomes a deafening roar as the California National Guard C-130 Hercules, only 150 feet above the ground, appears just above the treetops and drops 3,000 gallons of retardant in less than five seconds; thick red liquid coating the pine needles and forest floor below, creating a much-needed line of containment for firefighters on the ground.
  • MQ-9 Reaper takes flight with 8 hellfire missiles

    AF Week in Photos

    This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.
  • A KC-135 Stratotanker from the 121st Air Refueling Wing sits on the flightline at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tiffany A Emery)

    Airmen find solution to KC135 and C130 battery testing failure, reducing cost and maintenance delays

    The batteries serve as the aircraft’s backup to power essential equipment should engine generators fail. To date, the Air Force C-130 and KC-135 fleets, more than 600 aircraft globally, operate with the batteries.
  • B-2 Spirit operates at Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia

    AF Week in Photos

    This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.
  • photo of Bunch and Cadell

    AFMC virtual town hall addresses COVID-19, diversity, command future

    Gen. Arnold W. Bunch Jr., AFMC commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Stanley C. Cadell, AFMC command chief, addressed questions in front of a live, virtual audience during the event streamed live on the AFMC Facebook page.
  • Spangdahlem hosts USAFE large force exercise

    Spangdahlem AB hosts USAFE large force exercise

    The exercise focused on aircrew integration of multiple platforms to enhance readiness and increase proficiency needed to maintain a ready force to ensure the collective defense of the NATO alliance.

  • Around the Air Force: SECAF Visits Whiteman Air Force Base, C-17 Makes Technological Leaps, and Recruiting Releases New App

    Today’s look Around the Air Force highlights the Secretary of the Air Force’s visit to Whiteman Air Force Base to discuss the importance of the nuclear mission, a super fast data link for the C-17 that gives aircrews an advantage in contested airspace, and the release of the new Air Force Recruiting Service App. (Hosted by Staff Sgt. Timmethy James)
  • 801st SOAMXS accepts delivery of new CV-22

    AF Week in Photos

    This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.
  • C-130’s taxi April 14, 2011, at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., to take off from the base’s runway during the combat surge week. The purpose of the surge week was to make up for lost flying time by increasing the operations tempo. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Rusty Frank)

    AFCEC leads Little Rock AFB runway replacement

    The Air Force Civil Engineer Center is leading a $180 million project to replace the 64-year-old runway at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas.
  • Glowing inspection

    AF Week in Photos

    This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.
  • A woman watches as a man teaches her.

    Nigerien Air Force’s first female pilot trains at Little Rock AFB

    According to Capt. Ouma Laouali, the Nigerien air force’s first female pilot, her interest in aviation began as a child while chasing planes overhead, imagining what it would be like to be in the sky.
  • Thunderbirds fly over Las Vegas

    AF Week in Photos

    This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.
  • U.S. Air Force medical providers, assigned to the Javits New York Medical Station (JNYMS), discuss task force personnel capability to augment local hospitals as part of the COVID-19 response effort, April 7, 2020. The 621st Mobility Support Operations Squadron AMLOs provided airlift support to U.S. Army North to move soldiers into field hospital units in COVID-19 hotspots. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Deonte Rowell)

    AMLOs provide expertise in COVID-19 response, aid field hospital unit movements

    The AMLOs are rapidly responding to emerging air mobility requirements in New York City, Seattle, Dallas and New Orleans in coordination with Air Mobility Command and the 618th Air Operations Center, as part of the whole-of-government U.S. response to combating COVID-19.
  • Photo of firefighters preparing to extinguish fires.

    Taming the flames on Ramstein AB’s new F-15 mobile trainer

    Twenty-two NATO firefighters from Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania and the Czech Republic were the first to train on Ramstein Air Base’s new F-15 Mobile Aircraft Fire Training asset.

  • Around the Air Force: C-130 Virtual Reality Maintenance, Microgrid Project and MilTax

    Today's look Around the Air Force features a look at Virtual Reality maintenance software for C-130s, a more resilient power grid technology and MilTax benefits for this tax season. (Hosted by Senior Airman Marqus Williams)
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A United States Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refuels an F-22 Raptor over northern Iraq, Nov. 6, 2019. U.S. Central Command operations deter adversaries and demonstrate support for allies and partners in the region. (Video by Staff Sgt. Daniel Snider)
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Although the Silver Star is the third-highest military medal, it's not given often. Today, TSgt Cody Smith was the 49th Special Tactics Airman to receive this medal since Sept. 11th, 2001. Read more of TSgt Smith's amazing story: https://www.airforcespecialtactics.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2024815/special-tactics-airman-battled-through-injuries-awarded-silver-star/fbclid/IwAR2LZWwx1VHdTnQe39rIEBOuJS_0JvMQBBGt7I-E6zsxxn-Lx9387yu43Bc/ Cannon Air Force Base Air Force Special Operations Command United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
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