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386th EMXS Combat Metals team innovates repair, saves Air Force thousands
Jun 30, 2017 - You don’t always have everything you want on a deployment. No sixty inch plasma with video game console in your room, so you bring a laptop to play your games. Your cell phone doesn’t have coverage unless you pay exorbitant roaming fees, so you video chat with your family over Wi-Fi when you can instead. You make it work, however you can. [Read more...]
Pacific Air Commandos launch on 'Day of Jakal'
Jun 30, 2017 - The 17th Special Operations Squadron observed its annual ‘Day of the Jakal’ with a mass launch of five U.S. Air Force Special Operations MC-130J Commando IIs, June 22, 2017, at Kadena Air Base and Ie Shima Range, Okinawa, Japan. [Read more...]
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913th AG completes all Reserve 3-ship flight
Jun 30, 2017 - Airmen from the 913th Airlift Group reached another milestone, when on June 15, 2017, elements of the Group completed their first all Reserve 3-ship flight. [Read more...]
Ohio National Guard Strengthens Partnership with Allied Nations
Jun 27, 2017 - As part of the National Guard’s State Partnership Program, the Ohio National Guard deployed to Kecskemet Air Base in Hungary to participate in a Hungarian-led, multinational, air-to-air and air-to-ground exercise, Load Diffuser 17, May 24 through June 9, 2017. [Read more...]
353rd SOG & JASDF complete Exercise Teak Jet
Jun 26, 2017 - Members of the 353rd Special Operations Group, from Kadena Air Base, Japan built on relationships with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) Hamamatsu Air Rescue Squadron, based at Komaki Air Base and Komatsu Air Rescue Squadron, during Exercise Teak Jet, which took place June 9-21, 2017 at Yokota Air Base, Japan. [Read more...]
Thai Air Force joins JBER for Red Flag-Alaska
Jun 22, 2017 - The Royal Thai Air Force from Task Force 601 flew 6,200 nautical miles and spent 21 intermittent hours traveling to the Last Frontier to be part of Red Flag 17-2. [Read more...]
34th WPS graduates first WIC built for HC-130J Combat King II
Jun 21, 2017 - The U.S. Air Force Weapons School's 34th Weapons Squadron capitalized on planning and collaboration to graduate its first class of students June 17 in the Class 17A HC-130J Combat King II weapons instructor course, laying the foundation to increase HC-130J weapons officers in the Combat Air Forces. [Read more...]
386th AEW deliver critical supplies to frontlines
Jun 21, 2017 - "We aim for first pass success. One pass, one drop," said Maj. Josh Linden, the 386th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron chief of tactics, as he described the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing’s airdrop mission. [Read more...]
Dobbins flies with more than 100 aircraft in joint forcible entry exercise
Jun 21, 2017 - As the sun slowly rose over the eastern horizon, 19 C-130 aircraft, both Hercules and Super Hercules models, made their way across the Nevada landscape. While the aircraft progressed towards their target, the gorges and canyons below seemed like nothing more than a web of cracks across the countryside. [Read more...]
UTC Aerospace Systems is propelling readiness for turboprop aircraft
Jun 20, 2017 - UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. announced today that propeller upgrades for the U.S. Air National Guard LC-130 aircraft commenced this month with the fitting of the NP2000 propeller system. The retrofit contract includes twelve of the U.S Air National Guard's fleet of LC/C-130H aircraft. [Read more...]
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