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  • 130th Airlift Wing practices ACE during Flare 2023

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - More than 400 members of the 130th Airlift Wing conducted a weeklong Fly Away Readiness Exercise at the Combat Readiness Training Center in Gulfport, Mississippi.FLARE is a commander-directed readiness exercise demonstrating units’ ability to deploy using the Agile Combat

  • Multi-Capable Airmen, the Future of the 126 ARW

    SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- The 126th Maintenance Group, assigned to the Illinois Air National Guard, earned their seventh top mission capability rating for the U.S. Air Force’s KC-135 Stratotanker fleet and now aims for greater heights by implementing the Air Force’s Agile Combat Employment

  • F-22 Raptors Rearmed in Demonstration of ACE Capabilities

    PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, Hawaii - Total-Force weapons specialists from 154th and 15th wings rearmed F-22 Raptors at the Pacific Missile Range Facility for the first time March 8-9, demonstrating their ACE capabilities.The maneuver operation was part of a larger Joint Base Readiness Exercise

  • Maryland Air National Guard Completes Readiness Exercise

    MIDDLE RIVER, Md. – The Maryland Air National Guard conducted a readiness exercise involving Airmen in a simulated deployed environment across Martin State Air National Guard Base March 2-5.Operation Lucky Strike 2023 tested the 175th Wing’s ability to operate in a near-peer conflict while executing

  • Illinois Air Guard Unit Expands Capabilities Through ACE Exercise

    SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- The 126th Operations Group, located at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, deployed 44 personnel to Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia, Feb. 6-10, 2023, for Agile Combat Employment training to increase survivability while generating combat power.The KC-135 Total Force aerial

  • 177th Fighter Wing Hosts Integrated Combat Turnaround Training

    ATLANTIC CITY AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.J. - The 177th Fighter Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard, part of Air Combat Command, hosted Integrated Combat Turnaround training for members of Air Mobility Command Feb. 9-17.An ICT is a process by which an aircraft is recovered and relaunched in a

  • Indiana Air Guard’s 122nd Fighter Wing Exercises ACE Concept

    MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - The Indiana Air National Guard’s 122nd Fighter Wing is conducting Guardian Blitz, a training exercise with approximately 180 Airmen and 10 A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft, in Florida and Georgia Jan. 23-Feb. 4.The 122nd FW performed Guardian Blitz with proactive airpower

  • JB Charleston launches 24 C-17s during mission generation exercise

    Joint Base Charleston launched 24 C-17 Globemaster IIIs to conduct a mission generation exercise that integrated Air Force, Army, and Marine Corps forces across five operating locations, Jan. 5.The exercise marked the largest C-17 launch ever from a single base and demonstrated the wing’s ability

  • Fairchild completes historic 72-Hour KC-135 endurance mission

    FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. -- Two KC-135 Stratotankers simultaneously conducted 72-hour single-aircraft endurance missions, demonstrating multi-day tanker mission generation capabilities, October 4-7, 2022.For over 72-hours the aircrafts only landed to refuel, change crews, and service engine