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  • Alabama Air Guard Red Tails Conducts Communication Exercise

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. –The 187th Fighter Wing’s 226th Combat Communications Group conducted Exercise Copperhead Beacon 2023 throughout the east coast Sept. 8-10.Exercise Copperhead Beacon 2023 was an expeditionary communications east coast group exercise built with the objective of increased coordination

  • Alabama Airmen keep Battlefield Communications open at Northern Strike 23

    ALPENA, Mich. – A team of Alabama Air National Guard Airmen kept the communications lines open during Northern Strike 2023 - one of the nation’s largest annual National Guard training exercises.The 232nd Combat Communications Squadron members traveled to the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center

  • Airmen Go Off Grid for Terror Threat Training

    EASTOVER, S.C. - Air National Guard units from South Carolina, Alabama, the District of Columbia and Tennessee participated in Emergency Management Battlefield Expeditionary Response training, also known as Fox EMBER, May 2-7.The 21 Airmen conducted training at a specially constructed mock village

  • Alabama Air National Guard Refuels Romanian Air Force

    BUCHAREST, ROMANIA – Airmen from the Alabama National Guard’s 117th Air Refueling Wing and 187th Fighter Wing conducted capability exercises in the Black Sea region with the Romanian Air Force as part of the State Partnership Program May 13- 21.The State Partnership Program links a state’s National

  • Alabama Air National Guard, Romania complete exercise

    BUCHAREST, ROMANIA - Alabama Air National Guard members from the 117th Air Refueling Wing conducted a week-long joint exercise with the Romanian Ministry of Defense and Romanian Air Force.U.S. Airmen and Romanian F-16 pilots completed multiple midair refueling exercises to ensure interoperability

  • Georgia, Alabama, Puerto Rico Airmen exercise communications

    SALINAS, Puerto Rico – Several combat communications squadrons across the Air National Guard converged on Puerto Rico for a 15-day exercise, Tropic Thunder, April 1-15.The Puerto Rico Air National Guard’s 156th CBCS hosted the exercise at Camp Santiago Joint Training Center, Salinas; Punta Salinas

  • Red Tails participate in ACE exercise

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The 187th Fighter Wing participated in a combat exercise Nov. 1-6 throughout the southeast United States.Southern Lightning Strike, designed around Agile Combat Employment, included over 20 Air National Guard and Army National Guard units, displaying their ability to mobilize