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  • RPAs defeat Drones in air superiority

    Holloman Air Force Base is home to two distinct aircraft.RPAs at Holloman are used for training student pilots and sensor operators. They learn how to fly real-world combat missions as well as perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in RPAs.The QF-4 Drones are used by the 82nd Aerial

  • From going nowhere fast: to overcoming the odds

    As a high school student living in small town USA, he was going nowhere fast, and his family was struggling with several challenges of their own. With several failing grades and zero desire to do more than the bare minimum, he was far from being on a path to success; he admittedly had no plans and

  • Saving pilots' lives: One parachute at a time

    When an aircraft malfunctions, lives are at stake. If a pilot needs to eject from an aircraft, the equipment meant to save his life has to operate flawlessly in any scenario.The Airmen responsible for packing this equipment and keeping it mission-ready for every A-10C Thunderbolt II pilot, belong to

  • CATM puts shots on target

    Lying down in the Nevada desert on a blistering summer afternoon, palms sweaty and adrenaline running throughout the body, you hear "contact front!" Breathing heavily, a slow release of air drains from the lungs and you pull on a sliver of brass, ejecting a bullet on a one-way trip to its

  • The power of family

    As the saying goes, "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree," Tech. Sgt. Matthew Turner, NCO in charge of the 391st Fighter Squadron medical element, grew up under the watchful eye of a security forces chief master sergeant and proved just that. Turner has developed into the epitome of what the

  • A dual calling: joining the Chaplain Corps

    Air Force Chaplains provide spiritual care, facilitate religious activities and deliver 100 percent confidential counsel for the personnel in their care. It's been said, takes a special person to be a chaplain. But where do they come from?The Chaplain Candidate Program provides chaplains to the

  • Under Enemy Fire

    Within the words of the Airman's Creed are words that every Airman should live by. "I will never leave an Airman behind." That phrase invokes a sense of brotherhood amongst security forces members--and recently, they trained the way they fight.Two teams of five faced off against each other. Deep in

  • NDI: Seeing things unseen by human eyes

    Pilots often fly through the air at speeds well over 1,000 miles per hour, causing them to look like gray blurs slicing through the sky.At Nellis AFB, they often fly over vast miles of empty desert during routine training missions.In the blink of an eye, something could go wrong; the pilots could

  • Motivated by education, opportunity: Airman finds second home with Air Force

    Many words are used to describe the United States of America; some call it the land of plenty, freedom, or equality, but at least one Airman regards it as the land of opportunity.Airman 1st Class Bin Ma, 20th Comptroller Squadron financial services technician, departed Wuhan, China in 2008 to start

  • Air Force MWD handler reunites with best friend

    "It was a very long day of searching ," said U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Mark Bush, 28th Security Forces Squadron military working dog handler, referring to one day during a deployment to Iraq in 2010. "We searched vehicles in the area for hours, both parked and passing through."Earlier this month,