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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

  • Lead Wing completes SOUTHCOM exercise Operation Forward Tiger

    After three weeks of training and multinational integration, exercise Operation Forward Tiger came to an end March 4, 2023. The focus was on enhancing interoperability in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief designed to strengthen the longstanding partnership between the Dominican Republic

  • Integrating with neighbors provides lasting results

    After nine months of planning, the Fuerza Aérea de Republica Dominicana and the U.S. Air Force partnered for an airshow at San Isidro Air Base, Dominican Republic, celebrating the FARD's 75th anniversary and demonstrating joint capabilities, last month.

  • 621 CRW supports AGF 23-1; 366 FW Lead Wing certification

    Agile Flag 23-1 provided as a large, total force exercise at Savannah Air National Guard Base, Georgia, and it was where 102 Devil Raiders participated Feb. 28 to March 8 to provide one of Air Combat Command's Lead Wing, the 366th Fighter Wing from Mountain Home, Idaho, a relevant, combat credible

  • Lead Wing drills down on ACE C2

    The 366th Fighter Wing lead wing command and control Airmen participated in the Lead Wing Command and Control Course Nov. 1-4.

  • Gunfighter lead wing executes ACE ops

    The 366th Fighter Wing lead wing force elements conducted exercise Double Barrel 23-1 Oct. 17-21. Lead Wing exercises are named based on the level of integration between the airbase squadron, command and control element, and the mission generation force element.

  • Combat Operations Leader Training Course

    The 354th Fighter Squadron (Bulldogs) hosted the Combat Operations Leader Training course at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. This course is designed to develop company grade officers and senior non-commissioned officers from across Air Combat Command Lead Wings into proficient Agile Combat

  • The ‘Future Fight’ is here: Red Flag-Nellis 22-3

    The familiar roar of America’s air power is filling the skies over Las Vegas and the Nevada Test and Training Range to the north, signaling the start of another Red Flag exercise. However, participants of this iteration will find themselves facing some unfamiliar opposition as the first ever

  • 4th FW takes on Red Flag as lead wing

    Approximately 350 Airmen and 16 F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft assigned to the 4th Fighter Wing recently traveled from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina to Nellis AFB, Nevada, to take part in Exercise Red Flag 22-3 as a lead wing.

  • Exercise tests Offutt’s Lead Wing operating capabilities

    Team Offutt conducted a three-day Lead Wing exercise to test their ability to conduct command and control along with mission generation force element integration in a contested environment through simulated competition-through-conflict actions against a peer competitor.

  • Exercise preps total force for future of deployment

    Team Offutt became the first Air Combat Command designated Lead Wing to conduct an Agile Combat Employment exercise when about 60 members from across the base participated in KingFish ACE, March 15 and 16. KingFish ACE is a board game developed by Lt. Col. Troy Pierce, while he was a student at the

  • ACC Leadership visits Lead Wing

    The commander of Air Combat Command, Gen. Mark Kelly, and Chief Master Sgt. David Wade, ACC Command Chief Master Sergeant, visited one of the newly designated Lead Wings – the 355th Wing and certified ACC’s Heritage Flight Training Course hosted at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, from March

  • Red Flag 22-2 showcases integration of Air Power

    Red Flag-Nellis 22-2 is underway. Coalition partners have landed and the around-the-clock training has begun. This iteration will focus on tactical integration of cutting edge airpower. These efforts will reinforce the exercise's root purpose to provide junior combat air force aviators and partners

  • Combat communications vital to ABS, Lead Wing success

    The 35th Combat Communications Squadron from Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, partnered with the 23rd Wing to provide rapid communications support for exercise Ready Tiger from Feb. 28 through March 4 at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia.

  • Combat Air Forces wings transform for future fight

    ACC is evolving its organizational structures, warfighting concept of operations, force presentation and generation models, and how it prepares its Airmen to ensure they are ready for a battlespace that is vastly different than what they have experienced over the past two decades.

  • 55th Wing receives Lead Wing designation

    The 55th Wing is one of five Air Combat Command wings designated as a Lead Wing as Combat Air Forces transition to the Air Force Generation model. The goal of the Lead Wing is to increase a wing commander’s ability and speed in planning, synchronizing and executing operations in a contested

  • Team Moody activates 74, 75 FGS

    The 23rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron deactivated and the 74th and 75th Fighter Generation Squadrons activated at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, Jan. 14, 2022.

  • Moody Hosts 505th CCW for C2 Training

    Moody's 23rd Wing is fully embracing the lead-wing concept through its adoption of an A-staff and is working to apply that concept in accordance with the command and control framework.

  • 822d BDS supports Agile Flag 21-2

    The 822d Base Defense Squadron provided security and opposing forces for the 4th Fighter Wing, North Carolina, during Agile Flag 21-2, May 3-5, 2021.Air Combat Command’s Agile Flag 21-2 tested the 4th FW’s ability to deploy as a lead air expeditionary wing from its main operating base at Tyndall Air

  • 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