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  • Storm Flag 25-05 Soars Through Louisiana Skies

    Servicemembers from both the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army participated in Storm Flag 25-05, a Mobility Air Forces exercise, in multiple locations, March 15-31, 2025. Designed, led and documented by the 34th Combat Training Squadron (CTS), located at Little Rock Air Force Base (AFB), Arkansas, the

  • Vigilant, ready. BATTLE school is in session for Charleston Airmen .

    Trained and ready, Team Charleston Airmen participated in an intensive weeklong course at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, Feb. 24-28, 2025. Throughout the week, Airmen gain the necessary survival skills to become a lethal force, adaptable in any environment.

  • 521st CRS Airmen battle cold in PACIFIC DAGGER

    Nearly 100 Airmen from the 521st Contingency Response Squadron practiced their airbase-opening mission during exercise PACIFIC DAGGER at Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass., Feb. 4-8, 2025.Many historic American military operations in the Pacific were set on steaming jungle islands, but the US

  • Joint Forces collaborate in heavy-lift operation

    JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. — A joint effort among the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, the Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 772, and the U.S. Air Force’s 621st Contingency Response Group, resulted in a successful heavy-lift operation at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, Jan. 22, 2025.

  • 821st CRG participate in first-ever CR-led LZ Survey Course

    Whether it is unprepared, semi-prepared, or paved (prepared), a landing zone survey must be conducted to evaluate the risk of safely using any landing surface for military air-land operations.To conduct an LZ survey, 621st Contingency Response Wing LZ surveyors had to attend a course offered by

  • ‘Can Do’ wing booms into Operation Crimson Snowman

    Operation Crimson Snowman focused on the capabilities of the KC-46 Pegasus aircraft, with a significant emphasis on boom-equipped aerial refueling—a critical specialty the RCAF is poised to adopt and begin operations in 2027.