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  • Service knows no borders

    Every day, immigrants come to the United States to seek a better life in a country full of opportunities. It is not every day someone discovers that opportunity through serving in the U.S. military. In Vienna, Ohio, a small Air Force Reserve base not only has this rarity, it has four Reserve Citizen

  • U.S. F-35s forward deploy to NATO’s eastern flank

    SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany --  Six F-35A aircraft from Hill Air Force Base's active duty 388th Fighter Wing and Reserve 419th Fighter Wing currently operating out of Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, forward deployed Feb. 24 to the Baltic Sea and Black Sea regions in support of NATO’s collective

  • Airmen revitalize JBSA parks

    Students from the 733rd Training Squadron volunteered to remove trash and debris from Stillman Park and Leon Creek here, Feb. 18, 2022. The 502nd Installation Support Group coordinated the joint initiative cleanup to remove garbage and litter from on-base parks and waterways. Members from the 502nd

  • Exercises aren’t just PT

    Exercises for the normal base population are anywhere from one shift of work to one full week, for the planners it may take anywhere from 30 days to plan a simple exercise scenario to over a year to plan for more complex exercises.

  • MSG expands combat readiness to support wing

    A desolate airfield came alive as 122 members of the 920th Mission Support Group received part-task-training on tactical field skills during an exercise here Feb. 4.The field classes were part of the wing’s FURY HORIZON 22 exercise and were designed to observe how 920th MSG Airmen would react to

  • 433rd CES performs Total Force explosive ordnance training

    The 433rd Airlift Wing's mission statement is to "Provide Combat Ready Citizen Airmen Anywhere, Anytime." On Feb. 9-10, 433rd Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal technicians demonstrated that mission focus through several training exercises with the 902nd Civil Engineer Squadron,

  • AFR capabilities enable immediate ocean rescue

    The 920th Rescue Wing from Air Force Reserve Command conducted a multi-person medical airlift in support of a critically-injured person aboard a cruise ship 600 nautical miles off the coast of Florida Feb. 15.The 920th RQW launched two of its HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters, two HC-130J Combat King II

  • Hill reservists, active duty team up for F-35 deployment to Germany

     HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah – Air Force Reserve pilots, maintainers, and support personnel from the 419th Fighter Wing joined their active-duty counterparts in the 388th Fighter Wing in deploying the F-35A Lightning II to Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany.The jets arrived at Spangdahlem today to bolster

  • Eight F-22 Raptors refuel with Okies

    Eight F-22 Raptors with the 325th Fighter Wing at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, receive fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 507th Air Refueling Wing from Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, Feb. 7, 2022, while the Okies flew to the U.S. Virgin Islands for training. (U.S. Air Force photo by