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  • Qatar, AFCENT validate tactics during Exercise Sky Shield III

    QATAR, AFCENT validate tactics during Exercise Sky Shield III

    Airmen from U.S. Air Forces Central and the Qatar Emiri Air Force participated in Exercise Sky Shield III at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Aug. 1-4, 2021. Sky Shield III is a bilateral defensive counter-air combat patrol and combat search and rescue exercise designed to validate AFCENT and QEAF’s combined capability to defend regional airspace.
  • U.S. Air Force Senior Airmen Phaysawan Sengphrachanh, 380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Force Protection Hawkeye flight escort, uses a radio to contact personnel at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 22, 2020.

    The guardians within the walls

    The day starts before the sun rises as Force Protection Airmen walk into the armory to arm up with a radio and baton. Once everyone has met up outside the dispatch facility, each individual flight has their guard mount briefings for the day. By this time the sun is rising and everyone is checking out vehicles to go pick up or meet the Other County Nationals they are escorting for the day. The 380th Air Expeditionary Wing’s mission is to deliver airpower, defend against adversaries, and develop relationships. Without FP and OCNs working together, those priorities couldn’t be accomplished.
  • The AFCENT innovation officer connects Airmen in the AOR with the resources to accomplish their innovative vision.

    Innovating to win: Turning ideas into on-the-job solutions

    Whether it’s something as simple as trading in pen and paper for tablets or as sophisticated as automating the daily tanker refueling plan, every innovative practice here in the U.S. Air Forces Central Command area of responsibility started with someone’s good idea.
  • Airmen deployed to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, raise their right hands during an enlistment ceremony as they transferred into the Space Force on Sept. 1, 2020. The Space Force is the United States' newest service in more than 70 years. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kayla White)

    AUAB Airmen make history as first deployed Space Force members

    Enlisted and commissioned Airmen assigned to the 16th Expeditionary Space Control Flight and the 609th Air Operations Center joined the U.S. Space Force during enlistment and oath of office ceremonies at the Silent Sentry compound Sept. 1, 2020.
  • Led by U.S. Air Forces Central Command, the bi-annual exercise focused on improving readiness of air defense assets within the CENTCOM area of responsibility.

    Joint Air Defense Exercise 20-2 increases readiness, strengthens partnerships

    U.S. Central Command Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors and space warfighters joined regional and coalition partners last week for Joint Air Defense Exercise 20-2.
  • US-Qatar Friendship Event bonds strategic partners before F-15QA arrival

    US-Qatar Friendship Event bonds strategic partners before F-15QA arrival

    U.S. Air Forces Central Command conducted a bi-lateral key leader engagement known as the Qatar-AFCENT Friendship Event Aug. 23-24, 2020, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.
  • 332nd, 379th AEWs work together to expand agile combat employment in AOR

    332nd, 379th AEWs work together to expand agile combat employment in AOR

    In a joint effort to implement agile combat employment, F-15E Strike Eagle maintainers from the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing conducted hot pitting training and aircraft arresting system certification with deployed members from the 379th AEW, Aug. 23 and 28, 2020 at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.
  • ntegration operations between UAE and U.S. maritime forces are regularly held to maintain interoperability and the capability to counter threats posed in the maritime domain, ensuring freedom of navigation and free flow of commerce throughout the region's heavily trafficked waterways.

    UAE, U.S. Forces Conduct Aviation Live Fire Exercise in Arabian Gulf

    The United Arab Emirates Joint Aviation Command (JAC), U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT), U.S. Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT) and U.S. Special Operations Central Command (SOCCENT) conducted an air operations in support of maritime surface warfare (AOMSW) exercise in the Arabian Gulf, Aug. 9-12.

  • Al Udeid service members ‘Talk, Heal and Change’ together

    The Grand Slam 5/6 counsil hosted a diversity and inclusion panel discussion, “Talk, Heal and Change Together,” at the Blatchford-Preston Complex Theater, July 19, 2020, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.
  • The F-15QA is a dual-role fighter designed to perform air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. The aircraft can take off with nearly 30,000 pounds of munitions and reach a maximum ceiling of approximately 70,000 feet. (Courtesy photo)

    Qatar Emiri Air Force partners with U.S. to gain newest F-15 to their fleet

    Many military leaders can attest that the ability to conduct operations and win in modern warfare is rooted in a nation’s ability to work by, with, and through allies and partners. For the United States and U.S. Air Forces Central Command, the ability to conduct and deliver combat airpower alongside partner air forces has increased as its close partner, Qatar, has solidified details and logistics with U.S. government organizations and contractors to procure its own fleet of 48 F-15QA fighter jets. The Qatar Emiri Air Force is scheduled to start receiving these fighter jets in June 2021. The F-15QA is the most advanced version of the F-15 Eagle, the twin-engine fighter jet flown by the U.S. Air Force since 1972.
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