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  • Aircraft airflow tested in Nebraska to reduce COVID-19 spread

    LINCOLN, Neb. – The U.S. Air Force’s Air Mobility Command sent multiple airframes to the Nebraska Air National Guard base to test airflow and reduce the risk to aircrews transporting COVID-19 patients.“United States Transportation Command expressed a joint, urgent, operational need request for

  • 177 FW Conducts Virtual Unit Training Assembly

    ATLANTIC CITY AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.J. – The 177th Fighter Wing, New Jersey Air National Guard, is conducting a virtual Unit Training Assembly for many Airmen this weekend in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Air Force Energy supports sustainable microgrid project

    The development of a sustainable microgrid power station is now underway for the Hawaii Air National Guard’s 154th Wing at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. It is being developed as part of the Pacific Energy Assurance Renewables Laboratory (PEARL) and is designed to provide energy to the wing through

  • Team Iowa Guard tackles Relay Iowa, the world’s longest relay

    The Iowa National Guard is one of 40 teams from around the nation participating in Relay Iowa, this weekend. The world’s longest non-stop relay is a 336 mile running event that begins on the banks of the Missouri River in Sioux City on Iowa’s western border and ends in Dubuque on the Mississippi

  • Love of flying: a rare reunion for pilot couple

    The Barksdale Defenders of Liberty Air and Space Show, brought together over 80,000 families and spectators from the Ark-La-Tex region May 18 and 19, 2019 to witness a full weekend of military and civilian aircraft performances and displays. For one Air Force family, a trip to the air show held more

  • JSTARS maintainers design tool saving Air Force estimated $500k yearly

    Eight Airmen from Team JSTARS at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, recently designed an innovative tool estimated to save the Air Force nearly $500k a year in cowling repairs for the E-8C Joint STARS aircraft. The cowling fixture table, an approved tool intended for field-level repairs, was a response

  • New avionics invention saves Gunfighters time, money

    Wasting time is annoying. For a company, it costs money. For the Air Force, it could cost lives. So what if you had an idea to make things better and save time? Could you make your idea a reality? The Air Force says yes.