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NEWS

  • 2019 LIFT inspires innovation at Fairchild

    Team Fairchild hosted the third annual Leaders Inspiring for Tomorrow summit April 19 at the base theater, with this year’s topic focused on inspiring innovation. This year’s summit consisted of seven speakers ranging from retired military, active duty, business executives, and civilians with ties

  • Remembering the Fallen Air Advisors

    Service members, civilians, and family members from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst gathered at the Air Advisor memorial, April 27, to honor the memories of the 11 Air Advisors who have fallen in the line of duty.

  • The Air Force is becoming more Agile – one project at a time

    The term ‘Agile’ has been on the lips of Department of Defense senior leaders with increasing frequency recently – often citing its importance for developing functional, innovative software that better equips the warfighter to respond to uncertain and ever-changing environments.While the private

  • Registration kicks off for annual, premier defense logistics gathering

    SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. – Registration begins today for the seventh annual National Defense Transportation Association and U.S. Transportation Command co-sponsored Fall Meeting, scheduled for October 7-10, 2019, at St. Louis Union Station, St. Louis, Missouri.Individuals interested in attending

  • Unit Deployment Managers prepare Airmen for wartime efforts

    Whether providing humanitarian aid or projecting unrivaled combat airpower, the need to move the Air Force’s most valued asset, the Airmen, is paramount, and each step in that journey requires a trusted liaison: a unit deployment manager.

  • Little Rock takes readiness training cross-country

    Airmen from the 19th Airlift Wing removed their protective gear for the last time this week after completing a joint, semi-annual, multi-phase readiness exercise – ROCKI 19-06 – which ran in conjunction with exercise Green Flag Little Rock, March 27-April 17, 2019.

  • The 618th ACOMS Spartans Take a Quantum Leap into Cyber Security

    The 618th Air Communications Squadron (ACOMS) facilitated an experimental exercise in support of the 26th Cyberspace Operations Group and 24th Air Force (AF) from December 2018-March 2019.This proof of concept, known as Exercise Quantum evaluated 24th AF’s ability to establish a scalable task force

  • Fairchild prepped, ready to receive additional KC-135s

    U.S. Air Force officials announced April 9 that Fairchild Air Force Base has been approved as the new home for 12 additional KC-135 Stratotankers, which will begin arriving from McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, in fiscal year 2020.