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  • 621st CRW supports Army's RAAW exercise

    Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing worked with Soldiers from Fort Wainwright, Alaska, to load 10 AH-64 Apache helicopters and two Stryker armored vehicles in extreme cold weather during the Rapid Alaska Airlift Week exercise Dec. 10-16.

  • Team JBLM gains valuable experience at Rainier War

    The 62nd Airlift Wing hosted the semi-annual, large-formation exercise, which included other Joint Base Lewis-McChord partners such as the Army’s 51st Expeditionary Signal Battalion, 7th Infantry Division and the U.S. Air Force Reserve’s 446th AW. The scenarios used in the exercise closely mimic

  • Airmen, Army conduct low-approach training with C-17s

    Two C-17 Globemaster III aircraft piloted by Airmen of the 97th Air Mobility Wing from Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma, conducted low approach training at Savage Air Strip Oct. 13 at Douthit Gunnery Complex.Originally the training was scheduled to have two C-17s conduct landing and take-off training

  • Mobility Air Forces enable JTF-Bravo deployment to Haiti

    U.S. Air Force heavy airlift was called upon to support approximately 200 Soldiers, Airmen and Marines from Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Southern Command and Joint Task Force-Bravo who deployed this week with two CH-53E Super Stallion, three CH-47 Chinook, and two UH-60L and two

  • Joint exercise prepares Airmen, Soldiers for contingency ops

    LITTLE ROCK AIR FORCE BASE, Ark. -- Green Flag Little Rock 16-09 kicked off Aug. 18, 2016, withapproximately 750 U.S. Army airborne infantry soldiers jumping from severalC-130J and C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in the dead of night to seize and secure anassault zone. The event, referred to as "hit

  • Air Force, Army planners find ways to see greater jump in airdrops

    An arriving C-130 Hercules taxies to a large hangar where about 60 Army paratroopers wait to board. Lugging about 100 pounds of gear, the Soldiers quickly line up and load into the aircraft as its four idling engines blow hot gusts over the tarmac. Minutes later, the plane is flying at 150 mph and

  • Newly activated unit guides transient aircraft on joint missions

    Any aircraft that flies into Pope Army Airfield, Col. Kelly Holbert will know about it. But Holbert’s unit, the 43rd Air Mobility Operations Group, has no aircraft of its own. As the only en route operations group in the continental U.S., the unit manages transient aircraft and the joint missions

  • Airmen practice Ebola safety during Exercise Mobility Solace

    ir Mobility Command Airmen flew an aeromedical evacuation of a simulated Ebola patient from Joint Base Charleston to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, during Exercise Mobility Solace, Aug. 15-17, 2016.Mobility Solace provided AMC and its joint partners, the opportunity to evaluate the procedures and

  • New commander at Expeditionary Center

    The guidon of the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center passed to its newest commander in a ceremony here Aug. 2. Maj. Gen. Christopher Bence brings 30 years of experience to the position as he takes over for Maj. Gen. Frederick Martin.

  • Mobility Airmen enable joint operations planning process in Honduras

    Medical Readiness Training Exercises, Military Partnership Engagements and Mobile Surgical Team deployments have been the backbone of Joint Task Force-Bravo’s humanitarian mission in Central America for the past 23 years and have touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, built partner