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37th AS provides worldwide airlift for NATO allies
Pilots from the 37th AS fly over Riga, Latvia on June 10, 2016. U.S. armed forces and Latvian airmen will participate in Saber Strike 16. [USAF photo by SrA Nicole Keim]
Jun 18, 2016 - Airmen from the 37th Airlift Squadron out of Ramstein Air Base, Germany, are just one of the units deployed to the Baltic countries to participate in Saber Strike 16; a 13-country NATO training exercise held annually. [Read more...]
Reserve C-130 units take part in Swift Response
Major Rob Rettig, a pilot with the 934th AW in Minneapolis, pilots a C-130 over Ramstein, Germany. The flight was in support of exercise Swift Response. [USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Trevor Saylor]
Aug 31, 2015 - Two Air Force Reserve C-130 wings are providing aircraft, aircrews and support personnel for Exercise Swift Response 15, a multinational training event in Germany, Romania, Bulgaria and Italy , Aug. 18 - Sept.12 . [Read more...]
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Hohenfels Training Area cleared to land C-130 Aircraft at STOL
USAF C-130J-30 #07-8613 from 37 AS begins to lift off from the Short Take Off Landing strip at Hohenfels Training Area on July 29, 2015. The aircraft was used to test the capabilities of the recently resurfaced and extended STOL, which is now the only dirt airstrip in Germany capable of supporting an aircraft as large as the C-130. [U.S. Army photo by SSgt. Jerry Boffen]
Jul 31, 2015 - A joint team from the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army conducted the first C-130 landing at Joint Multinational Readiness Center in over two years, July 29. [Read more...]
US, Bulgarian forces synchronize training to strengthen future
An USAF C-130J Super Hercules and a Bulgarian air force C-27J Spartan fly in formation over Plovdiv, Bulgaria, July 16, 2015. [USAF photo SrA Nicole Sikorski]
Jul 20, 2015 - Airmen from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, went wheels up for a bilateral training exercise with the Bulgarian air force, July 14 through 24. [Read more...]
Ramstein airmen train with French Air Force
US Airmen ready their C-130J Super Hercules next to their French counterpart's C-130H Hercules at Orleans - Bricy AB, France on January 21, 2015. Two C-130Js from Ramstein AB, Germany, participated in the French-led exercise Volfa 15-1. [USAF photo by SrA Armando A. Schwier-Morales]
Jan 26, 2015 - Airmen from the 37th Airlift Squadron participated in a multilateral training event as part of Volfa 15-1, an annual training event led by the French Air Force at Orleans - Bricy Air Base, France, January 21, 2015. [Read more...]
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