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  • Pease Airmen first to plan, fly KC-46 coronets

    PEASE AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.H. -- Pease achieved another historic first in military aerial refueling.A year after the 157th Air Refueling Wing became the first Air National Guard unit in the country to field the KC-46A Pegasus, New Hampshire airmen helped plan and execute the new tanker’s first

  • MacDill TF team conducts readiness exercise

    Mobility Airmen from the 6th and 927th Air Refueling Wings participated in a joint readiness exercise here Aug. 26-28, 2020. The exercise tested Team MacDill’s ability to rapidly deploy and conduct air-refueling operations while complying with real-world COVID-19 pandemic countermeasures. Through

  • AUAB, Qatar sign agreement on air space operations

    An Air Traffic Control Letter of Agreement was signed by U.S. personnel, the Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) and Qatar Civil Aviation Authority (QCAA) to better work together to ensure safe air space operations at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.

  • 60th SFS evacuates Team Travis families

    As a red sun shrouded in smoke began to disappear for the day, Aug. 19, a noise that sounded like a toddler mashing a bunch of numbers on a phone echoed across Travis Air Force Base. The sound rang out from the base’s loudspeaker warning system, the giant voice, and was the attention-grabbing noise

  • 379th EAES among first to train on new NPC-L

    The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic has challenged the world to forge a new normal. For members of the U.S. military, their ability to adapt and innovate has continued to prove itself.

  • Travis Airmen deliver COVID aid to Indonesia

    A C-17 Globemaster III manned by an aircrew from the 21st Airlift Squadron departed Travis Air Force Base Aug. 28, venturing on a four-day mission to deliver 500 ventilators to Jakarta, Indonesia.

  • Team Travis expedites aircraft evacuation in midst of fire emergency

    As the LNU Lightning Complex Fire encroached on communities near Travis Air Force Base Aug. 19, units across the 60th and 349th Air Mobility Wings here, rallied to evacuate the base’s fleet of C-17 Globemaster III, C-5M Super Galaxy and KC-10 Extender aircraft to safeguard them against the impending

  • AMC Phoenix Raven Course continues strong during COVID-19

    U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center instructors executed the first Phoenix Raven Qualification Course of the year from July 27 to Aug. 19, 2020. Due to the constraints of COVID-19, the Phoenix Raven instructors of the 421st Combat Training Squadron had to completely redesign the PRQC in order to

  • 50th ARS arrives at AUAB replacing 349th EARS

    The 50th Air Refueling Squadron from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, along with several of their KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft, arrived at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, as part of a mass unit deployment, Aug. 18, 2020.