April 7, 2017 Around the Air Force: April 7 On this look around the Air Force, a team of communication specialists travel to Kodiak Island, Alaska, to provide communication assistance and Air Force Global Strike Command stands up a nuclear command, control and communications center.
April 6, 2017 Civilian boss’s deploy from Luke Over 60 local civilian employers of citizen airmen from the 944th Fighter Wing visited here Apr. 1 and experienced a “deployment” scenario for Bosses Day 2017.
April 4, 2017 307th Bomb Wing hosts reunion The 307th Bomb Wing hosted a reunion, March 30 through April 1 celebrating its 75th anniversary of the wing. More than 80 alumni and family attended the three-day reunion, including eight of the 42 remaining 307th World War II veterans, Veterans from the Korean Conflict, Vietnam Conflict and Cold
April 3, 2017 Executing the mission The 482nd Fighter Wing identified, in a comprehensive Strategic Plan, its top priorities . . . and priority #1 is: Ensure trained, qualified Airmen ready to support the joint fight. And how best to gauge if the 482nd Fighter Wing can execute the mission and provide trained, qualified Airmen to
April 1, 2017 Stopping Sexual Assault – Not Just in April The truth is, the vast majority of Airmen we serve alongside have never – and will never – sexually assault another person in their lifetime. Let me say it again for the people in the back – the vast majority of our Airmen HAVE NEVER and WILL NEVER harm another person. Hard stop.
March 31, 2017 Bataan survivor’s descendant leads unit in grueling marathon Thirty years ago, she was dancing on her granddaddy’s feet; this month, she marched 26.2 miles through deep desert sand and over mountains carrying a 50-pound ruck sack with four comrades in arms, in his honor. For Air Force 2nd Lt. Amber Schoenberger, memorializing the memory of U.S. Army Air
March 28, 2017 Exercise Iniohos 17 kicks off in Greece U.S. Air Force Airmen and twelve F-16C Fighting Falcons from the 482nd Fighter Wing, Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida, began exercise Iniohos 17, here, which will last until April 6.
March 27, 2017 From working on Falcons to being one Cadets at the prestigious United States Air Force Academy are known as “Falcons” and in three short months a 482nd Fighter Wing Maintainer will go from working on the F-16 Fighting Falcon, to being an Academy Falcon. Airman 1st Class Joel Bernal, 22, has been selected as one of approximately 1,000