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  • U.S. Air Force graphic by Staff Sgt. Alexx Pons

    Joint Service Achievement Medal awarded to Montagu-Hunter Challenge volunteer Airmen

    Four Airmen from the 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing were recently awarded the Joint Service Achievement Medal for volunteering at the Defense Program Support Activity’s Montagu-Hunter Challenge May 19.
  • Maj. John R. Widmer, 314th Fighter Squadron flight commander and an F-16 instructor pilot, poses for a photo prior to flying in an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. June 23, 2017. Widmer was recently recognized as the Air Force’s Fighter Instructor Pilot of the Year for his exemplary performance in and out of the jet. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Alexis Docherty)

    54th Fighter Group pilot named Fighter Instructor Pilot of the Year

    One of Holloman’s Airmen, Maj. John R. Widmer, 314th Fighter Squadron flight commander and an F-16 instructor pilot, was named the Air Force’s Fighter Instructor Pilot of the Year. The award is designed to recognize fighter pilots and weapon systems officers’ commitment, performance, leadership and aviation skills that were instrumental to mission success of their units, the U.S. Air Force and the Defense Department.
  • Tech. Sgt. David Garcia (middle), the NCOIC of physical therapy, 386th Expeditionary Medical Group, monitors the form of Staff Sgt. Melanie Hernandez, a patient with the 386th EMDG physical therapy clinic, as she performs squats on a stability ball during a physical therapy session at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, June 11, 2017. The physical therapy clinic provides an array of rehabilitative services to promote movement, reduce pain, restore function and prevent disability of injured military personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Tech. Sgt. Jonathan Hehnly)

    386 AEW physical therapists keep service members fit to fight

    Each individual in the military, and their ability to perform their duties, plays an important role in the success of the greater mission. For the two-man physical therapy element at the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing, it is their role to keep members fit to fight.
  • U.S. Air Force Cadet 2nd Class Michael Triner, U.S. Air Force Academy cadet, hangs in a harness while others watch a display at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., June 12, 2017. Triner and other cadets participated in hanging harness training using a virtual reality headset to learn how to safely navigate a parachute during their visit as part of the Operation Air Force program. (U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Kathryn R.C. Reaves)

    Shaw hosts cadets for Operation Air Force

    U.S. Air Force Academy cadets are visiting Team Shaw as part of the Operation Air Force program, June 6 to 21.

  • Luke AFB temporarily cancels F-35A local flying ops

    The 56th Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, cancelled local flying operations today for F-35A Lightning II aircraft due to a series of five incidents in which pilots have experienced hypoxia-like symptoms.
  • U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle pilots from of Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., taxi after landing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, during exercise Northern Edge 2017, May 11, 2017. With participants and assets from the U.S. Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Coast Guard, Northern Edge is Alaska’s premier joint-training exercise designed to practice operations and enhance interoperability among the services. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Pena)

    Significant changes to Aviation Bonus Program

    As part of its retention efforts, the Air Force released details on the fiscal year 2017 Aviation Bonus Program (AvB) June 5, 2017. This year’s program implements an increase in maximum bonus amounts authorized in the fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act in addition to more flexibility in contract lengths.
  • Karen Terwilliger, a local environmental expert, looks out to brackish water shores ideal for Diamondback Terrapin Turtle reproduction at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., May 10, 2017. Langley Air Force Base has restored 3,000 linear feet of its shoreline and plans to restore an additional 329 feet this year, providing natural flood prevention, and an added benefit of more area for the turtles to lay eggs. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Natasha Stannard)

    Last refuges for declining, rare, endangered species

    “This area is perfect,” said Karen Terwilliger, a local environmental expert, as she pointed to a part of Langley Air Force Base’s shoreline that provides, not only a natural flood barrier, but a safe area for the Diamondback Terrapin Turtle, a declining species being surveyed at Langley AFB, to lay its eggs.
  • Military Sealift Command missile range instrumentation ship USNS Invincible makes way during sea trials following a regularly scheduled yard period. The platform is designed to augment the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense sensor network by providing target discrimination information to U.S. Strategic Command. (U.S. Navy photo by Tommy Chia)

    Tech Ops Squadron is heartbeat of nuke treaty monitoring from air, sea, space

    When the Department of Defense needs bombs on target or fighters in the air, they reach out to any number of flying wings within the Air Force to task their squadrons to accomplish that mission. Yet when they need near-real time data of potential nuclear detonations, to include ballistic missile detection, radioactive plume debris collection, seismic activity or gamma ray emissions, there is only one wing within DoD that can meet that need.
  • Airman 1st Class Korie Morimoto, 823rd Maintenance Squadron aircraft fuel systems apprentice, performs maintenance on an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter fuel probe at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., May 4, 2017. The 823rd MXS was tasked with rebuilding the HH-60’s fuel probe to prevent leaks during in-flight refueling. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Andrew D. Sarver/Released)

    823rd MXS Airmen fuel innovation

    The 823rd Maintenance Squadron here recently performed a repair and complete rebuild of an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter fuel probe May 10 – a first for Air Force helicopter maintenance squadrons.
  • The 432nd Wing celebrated their 10th anniversary at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., as a combat remotely piloted aircraft wing flying the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper May 1, 2017. (U.S. Air Force graphic/Master Sgt. Lisa Carlson)

    First combat MQ-1, MQ-9 wing celebrates 10 years at Creech

    The 432nd Wing celebrated their 10th anniversary at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., as a combat remotely piloted aircraft wing May 1, 2017. In attendance was Gen. Mike Holmes, commander of Air Combat Command, Col. Case Cunningham, 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing commander and 400 Airmen of the wing. “Thanks for what you do,” Holmes said. “What you’ve done with this aircraft, the 3 million flight hours since 2000 with 3,000 strikes in 2016 and 10 years at this base is what we’re going to celebrate.”
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