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  • Summit underscores team nature of cyber defense

    FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. – Senior leaders from around the U.S. Cyber Command enterprise discussed the future of cyber operations, evolving capabilities and deeper integration during a summit April 19.The in-person and virtual gathering brought together Reserve Component leadership and Service Cyber

  • AF crowns Readiness Challenge VIII winners, plans FOC event in 2023

    TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — Following a more than 20-year competition hiatus, the Air Force civil engineering community crowned winners of the Air Force Civil Engineer Readiness Challenge April 22, 2022. Surrounded by a crowd of more than 400 civil engineers — competitors, cadre and team

  • C-130 platform receives avionics overhaul

    WACO, Texas – The Mobility and Training Aircraft Directorate’s C-130 Program Office, along with the Air Mobility Command, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve and prime contractor L3Harris (L3H) Integrated Mission Systems, celebrated a major milestone with a ribbon cutting ceremony earlier this

  • Reaper Smoke 2022 exercise, crowning ‘best of the best’ MQ-9 aircrew

    CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (AFNS) -- Nearly 45 MQ-9 Reaper crews from across the United States entered Creech Air Force Base’s flight simulators April 6-7: only one crew emerged on top.Testing remotely piloted aircraft pilots and sensor operators, exercise Reaper Smoke 2022 pitted dozens of

  • Aircraft arrive at Kentucky Air Guard Base for Thunder air show

    LOUISVILLE, KY -- Military aircraft began arriving at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base here today for this weekend’s Thunder Over Louisville air show, including the U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Demo Team.The two-ship team will be among the highlights of this year’s air show, to be held on the

  • Nebraska school principal welcomed home from deployment

    FORT CALHOUN, Neb. – Iowa Air National Guard 1st Sgt. Drew Wagner was welcomed home at the elementary school where he is the principal following a six-month deployment overseas.Wagner said that in a small town like Fort Calhoun, the deployment involved everyone in the community.“They wrapped us up

  • Citizen Airmen strengthen partnerships at FIDAE '22

    SANTIAGO, Chile -- The Texas Air National Guard joined more than a hundred Airmen to participate in the FIDAE (Feria Internacional del Aire y Espacio) international air and space show April 5-10, 2022, in Santiago, Chile.Two C-130J Super Hercules from the 136th Airlift Wing supported FIDAE by

  • Understanding Ground Surgical Teams

    BOISE, Idaho -- Six members of the 124th Fighter Wing comprising the Air National Guard's first, self-contained Ground Surgical Team are preparing to deploy to East Asia. But what does a GST do?The Ground Surgical Team provides damage control, resuscitation and surgery in an austere environment,”