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  • Deployed to Lead: Beale Airmen Power Expeditionary Operations

    Airmen from the 9th Reconnaissance Wing prepared for departure to become deployed Airmen under U.S. Central Command’s Combined Air Component – Ninth Air Force (Air Forces Central). Beale’s deployers were joined by family, friends and fellow Airmen to see them off. It was an emotional gathering, but

  • Nellis begins Red Flag 24-1

    On January 15 over 30 units from across the U.S. Department of Defense, the Royal Air Force, and the Royal Australian Air Force will converge at Nellis for the start of Red Flag 24-1.

  • AF Week in Photos

    This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.

  • Nellis is empowering warfighters via DevSecOps

    The Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office is using multiple technologies to build its Advanced Battle Management System to create decision superiority by delivering information and capabilities to decision makers at all echelons.

  • 20th FW hosts Red Flag 21-2

    Multiple times a year, the world’s top air forces come together to prove their combat capabilities over almost 3 million acres of desert at the Nevada Test and Training Range. The 20th Fighter Wing is scheduled to host Red Flag 21-2 from March 8-19 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

  • ACC Agile Flag experiment paves way for lead wings

    Agile Flag 21-1 at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, came to a close, Oct. 29, 2020, as the first of its’ kind event to test the effectiveness of “Lead Wings.”The lead wing for this exercise was the 366th Fighter Wing from Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, and 250 Airmen from six units from across

  • A historian to remember

    A woman sporting a black shirt and joggers with short brown hair held in place with silver butterfly hair pins scribbles away in a bright red notebook. Standing there, in a patch of grass, she places her hand over her brow to block the sun from her eyes. As she looks around she finds herself

  • Agile Flag 21-1: A chief's perspective

    Agile Flag 21-1 is an experimental exercise that is testing the capability of a lead Wing level A-staff to employ mission generation, command and control, and base operating support elements from the MOAB, while supporting a forward operating base at Hurlburt Field, Florida, and a contingency

  • Chaplaincy brings VR to Agile Flag 21-1

    The 366th Fighter Wing Chaplaincy are also using Agile Flag 21-1 to try test the implementation of virtual reality (VR) as a resiliency tool for Airmen.

  • GTOC initiates no contact rental service

    In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Air Force bases are adapting new protocol to ensure the safety of their most valuable assets: the Airmen, civilians and their families that are assigned to the installations. The Ground Transportation Operations Center of the 355th Logistics Readiness

  • Gen. Mark Kelly takes command of ACC

    Service members of Air Combat Command welcomed their new commander during a change of command ceremony Aug. 28 at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. Gen. Mark Kelly took command from Gen. Mike Holmes during a ceremony presided over by Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr. who shared

  • Virtual training center leverages enhanced warfighter capabilities

    The Air Force relies on forward-thinking Airmen who are constantly thinking of ways to innovate, refine or improve processes and technology in a way that can modernize the service and its tactics. Nellis Airmen have heard, and answered, that call, and so with the snip of a ribbon, on Aug. 17 the

  • Moody TACP keep current during pandemic

    Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) members from the 93d Air Ground Operations Wing (AGOW), conducts close air support training with an A-10C Thunderbolt II from the 75th Fighter Squadron April 8, 2020, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. TACPs require regular close air support training controlling aircraft

  • Telework. How hard can it be?

    When I first heard we were going to telework, I thought “Great! How hard can it be?”When I Imagined myself teleworking from home as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, I was sitting in my cozy home-office, sipping my morning tea, more productive than ever because telework means without the normal

  • Airmen conduct CSAR, personnel recovery training

    A U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II flies over Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona, March 26, 2020. The A-10 aided in a simulated personnel recovery while also fighting off simulated opposition forces as part of a combat search and rescue training event. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman

  • Medical staff combats COVID-19

    To help, the 355th Medical Group public health, flight medicine, operational medicine and bio-environmental flights joined forces to help mitigate the spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 The medical staff educates and keeps the Davis-Monthan team informed in order to provide the best medical care and

  • A-10 Demonstration Team: March practice

    U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the A-10C Thunderbolt II Demonstration Team watch an A-10 Thunderbolt II fly over Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, March 23, 2020. The A-10 provides significant protection to ground forces through close air support. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kayla