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  • B-52 Schoolhouse pushes through pandemic

    B-52 Stratofortress Formal Training Unit Class 20-02 graduated during a ceremony here Dec. 4, the final class to graduate this year.The 93rd Bomb Squadron and 11th BS administer the formal training program and continue to supply the Air Force with a timely and steady stream of new B-52 aircrew,

  • Luke pilot reaches rare milestone, surpasses 3k flying hours in F-16

    As of Nov. 23, 2020, only 295 pilots worldwide could claim to have surpassed three thousand flying hours in the F-16 Fighting Falcon.  That number is now 296.Col. Sean “Double” Rassas, 944th Fighter Wing vice commander, soared past his three thousandth hour in the fighter aircraft, Nov. 24, at Luke

  • 445th conducts Total Force combat search, rescue training

    Airmen from the 445th Airlift Wing’s 89th Airlift Squadron and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s 375th Air Evacuation Training Squadron participated in combat search and rescue training Oct. 4, 2020 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The training was conducted by the 445th Operations Support

  • Share Your Why

    Why are you here? Why do you wear the uniform? Why did you raise your right hand? Why do you choose to serve?Be it on active duty or in the Reserves, there are more than 2 million people serving in the U.S. military and millions of veterans have served before them in the several hundred year

  • 87 APS compete in Port Dawg Challenge

    Members of the 87th Aerial Port Squadron competed in 11 events throughout the course of the day during the squadron’s semi-annual Port Dawg Challenge Oct. 17, 2020 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The event incorporated the various skills necessary to safely and effectively prepare and move

  • The 414th FG then, now

    The 414th Fighter Group, a geographically separated unit of the 944th Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, hit their 10-year anniversary this summer since their reactivation at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, in July of 2010.