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  • Air Force supports repatriation efforts at Travis AFB

    At the direction of the Secretary of Defense, Travis Air Force Base is one of four bases that has been hand-selected to assist the Department of Health and Human Services for housing individuals traveling overseas due to the novel coronavirus. HHS officials requested DOD installations to provide

  • Ready, set, respond-315AW Airmen train in tropics

    A team of Airmen from the 315th Airlift Wing, Joint Base Charleston, S.C., trained in rapid response deployment scenarios during exercise Patriot Palm with joint-service members from the Marines, Coast Guard, Army, and FBI Jan. 27-30, 2020, at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Hawaii. One of the key players

  • AMC increases global reach, power during TRANSCOM exercise

    Air Mobility Command Airmen participated in U.S. Transportation Command’s annual Exercise Turbo Challenge here Jan. 23-30.More than 2,200 personnel participated in the TRANSCOM-led exercise where Airmen exercised their ability to respond decisively on a global scale when diplomatic efforts fail.

  • Expanding the Mission

    Nearly 50 years ago, astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins made the journey back from the moon onboard Apollo 11. The men passed into Earth’s atmosphere and made a splash landing in the Pacific Ocean. This was the end of the astronauts’ journey, but it was only the

  • USAF Expeditionary Center leadership visits 724th AMS

    U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center leadership visited the 724th Air Mobility Squadron at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Jan. 24, 2020. U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center leadership visited Aviano Air Base as part of a larger visit to the geographically separated units under the 521st Air Mobility

  • AETC, AMC team up on VR solutions for modern C-130 training

    Headquarters Air Force, Air Mobility Command, and Air Education and Training Command have been working on a virtual-reality platform for maintenance training through Mass Virtual, a contractor that scans real-world objects to create virtual environments.

  • Army’s JRTC kicks off GFLR 20-03

    Personnel from the 34th Combat Training Squadron and the U.S. Army collaborated with coalition forces from Canada during the joint forcible entry and airborne assault to kick off exercise Green Flag Little Rock 20-03 Jan. 11-21, 2020, at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana