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  • Utah Air Guard Completes Joint Agile Combat Employment Exercise

    SALT LAKE CITY – As the Air Force continues to prioritize Agile Combat Employment, Airmen from the 151st Air Refueling Wing conducted their first joint multicapable Airmen exercise at Dugway Proving Ground Sept. 8.ACE is an operating concept for today’s changing threat environment and will shape how

  • Oklahoma Special Operations Wing Supports Northern Strike

    ALPENA, Mich. – Airmen from the 137th Special Operations Wing deployed to support Northern Strike 22-2 at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center Aug. 6-19.Nearly 50 Oklahoma Air National Guard members supported operations during the exercise, including a 13-person Mission Sustainment Team

  • 128th Air Control Squadron Trains for Near-Peer Competitors

    VOLK FIELD, Wis. – The Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 128th Air Control Squadron trained for two weeks at Volk Field and Hardwood Range to prepare for future missions.From July 11-25, Airmen were in the field conducting training to accelerate readiness, mobility and flexibility in today’s changing

  • Historic Highway Landing Advances Agile Combat Employment

    ALGER COUNTY, Michigan – Air National Guard A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft, Air Force Special Operations Command MC-12W, C-145A and U-28A aircraft, and a C-146A aircraft from the Air Force Reserves landed, took off and performed integrated combat turns on a closed 9,000-foot section of Michigan

  • 130th Airlift Wing Exercises Combat Power in Newest C-130J

    Sixty-three Airmen and two C-130J-30s Super Hercules from the 130th Airlift Wing participated in Agile Rage 2022 June 6-19 in the first Air National Guard Readiness Exercise Program focused on decentralized command and control and distributed military operations.The Alpena Combat Readiness Training

  • New Air National Guard Exercise Tests Agility in Michigan

    ALPENA, Mich. – Air National Guard Airmen and aircraft from around the country are conducting the first Air National Guard Readiness Exercise Program event, Agile Rage 22. This exercise is hosted by the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, part of the National All-Domain Warfighting Center in

  • Contingency response dominates ACE exercise during Southern Strike

    AVON PARK AUXILIARY AIRFIELD, Fla. (AFNS) -- An F-16 Fighting Falcon escorts a C-17 Globemaster III into a simulated austere environment. The engines are running, the personnel deplane the C-17, cargo is downloaded, the airfield is prepped for more aircraft to land, and within minutes, a security

  • National Guard members pitch innovation

    SELFRIDGE AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mich. – On March 14, through Academia, Industry, Military, Hybrid Innovations (AIM-HI), the Michigan Air National Guard and the Kelly Johnson Joint All-Domain Innovation Center sponsored the Cohort 3 Pitch Day. Guard members pitched solutions to National Guard, Air

  • 177th Fighter Wing trains in Key West

    KEY WEST, Fla. – New Jersey Air National Guard’s 177th Fighter Wing rapidly deployed Airmen, aircraft and equipment to Naval Air Station Key West Jan. 8 for flight training and to prepare for an Agile Combat Employment (ACE) training mission in Puerto Rico.Maintenance, operations, logistics,

  • Hawaii aircraft maintenance units execute C-17 to F-22 refueling

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Total Force Initiative (TFI) Airmen from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam executed ground refueling between two separate and contrasting airframes Feb. 25.Airmen from the active-duty 15th Maintenance Group (MXG) and Hawaii Air National Guard 154th MXG