Legacy Stratotanker refuels newest Air Force fighters

Team Fairchild’s KC-135 Stratotanker was hard at work refueling six of the U.S. Air Force’s latest fifth-generation fighters, the F-35A Lightning II, over the Pacific Northwest Oct. 17.

JB MDL airlifts Airman, supplies to family in Puerto Rico

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. -- On Sept. 6, Hurricane Irma ravaged the northeast side of Puerto Rico, leaving almost one million people without power. Weeks later, Hurricane Maria limited communications, uprooted trees and created a labyrinth of inaccessible roads and highways throughout

McConnell AFB completes construction on KC-46 hangar

Team McConnell held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 16 at the new KC-46 Pegasus three-bay hangar to recognize that the base now stands ready to be the first to accept the new multi-role aircraft next year.

Mobility Airmen make a difference in Puerto Rico

The 621st Contingency Response Wing has been actively engaged in all hurricane response support. In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, 157 members were tasked to deploy to Roosevelt Roads, Ponce, and Aguadilla in Puerto Rico. The wing continues to support from stateside locations as well to help

726th AMS, 60th APS come together to assist Airman

“On Monday morning, a little after 8 o’clock in the morning, I received notice from my first sergeant that a family member of one of our troops had been shot in an ongoing active shooter event in Las Vegas, Nevada.,” said Lt. Col. Shannon Caleb, 726th Air Mobility Squadron commander at Spangdahlem

Puerto Rico ANG helps to build air bridge

For all the airlift missions that the pilots and the loadmasters of the 198th Airlift Squadron have planned over the years, there is one major difference between those and the ones they are scheduling now as the Puerto Rico Air National Guard's representatives to Hurricanes Irma and Maria relief

Travis AFB supports FEMA in California wildfire mission

At the request of the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency, Travis Air Force Base was designated an installation support base during the response to the Atlas Fire, which has spread across Northern California since Oct. 8, 2017.

Spokane media witnesses rapid global mobility

One of Air Mobility Command’s strategic objectives to ‘Deliver airlift, air refueling, aeromedical evacuation and air mobility support where and when needed to support the Air Force, joint and collation operations’ was met Thursday as several Spokane-area media outlets witnessed first-hand the

CMSAF visits McConnell

Airman's hometown visit leads to helping hurricane victims

A civil engineer air advisor for the 571st Mobility Support Advisory Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, California, had been looking forward to visiting his hometown in Texas for a relaxing Labor Day weekend with family and friends, but instead his plans quickly changed when Hurricane Harvey made