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  • C-130s increase Afghanistan's mobility capability

    When two C-130H aircraft arrived at Robins in the fall of 2013, each would play a significant role nearly two years later in a country over 7,000 miles away.The nose of one aircraft, scheduled to be retired, served as a donor to a second C-130. The second had experienced a hard landing and suffered

  • KC-46 team wins DOD environmental award

    The KC-46A Pegasus program's Environment, Safety and Occupational Health (ESOH) team was named the Defense Department's top large program in environmental excellence in weapon system acquisition April 22.The award, which is part of the 2016 Secretary of Defense Environmental Awards, recognized the

  • Aviano’s Atlas actions: Holding up Saber Junction 16

    Eighteen airlift aircraft performed 103 sorties during an exercise at Aviano Air Base, Italy, from March 31 to April 24, 2016.Saber Junction 16 evaluated the readiness of 5,000 U.S. Army, Air Force, NATO and European partner nations' military forces to conduct land operations in a joint, combined

  • NASA astronauts assess USAF Water Survival Course

    Five team members from NASA visited Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, April 18-20 to assess the USAF Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape Water Survival Course."Right now we are here to evaluate the possibility of sending more astronauts to Fairchild in the future," said Michael Fincke, NASA

  • Green Flag 16-06 enhances mobility partnerships

    The 34th Combat Training Squadron and U.S. Army personnel worked closely with coalition forces from Sweden, New Zealand and Australia during the Green Flag Little Rock 16-06 exercise April 14-24, 2016, located at both Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, and Ft. Polk, Louisiana."Since GFLR is not

  • Doolittle Raider raises a toast 74 years later

    Fairchild AFB had the distinct opportunity to host Army Air Force Staff Sgt. David Thatcher for a commemorative toast April 18 in honor of the 74th anniversary of the Doolittle Tokyo Raid.Thatcher, a member of Flight Crew No. 7, is one of two surviving Doolittle Raiders.The air raid, led by then Lt.

  • U.S., partner nations train during Saber Junction 16

    U.S. armed forces and 17 other NATO and European partner nations joined for Exercise Saber Junction 16, March 31 - April 24, 2016, at Hohenfels Training Area, Germany.The exercise provided more than 5,000 participants the opportunity to conduct land operations in a joint, combined environment and to

  • Army, Air Force train for short take-off and landing

    Soldiers from the 173rd Brigade Support Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade out of Vicenza, Italy, and Airmen from the 321st Special Tactics Squadron, out of the Royal Air Force Station in Suffolk, England, secured the Hohenfels Training Area short take-off and landing strip (STOL) April 13, as part

  • Investigation report determines cause of C-130J crash in October

    Air Mobility Command has released the results of an accident investigation that examined what caused the Oct. 2, crash of a C-130J during a takeoff from Jalalabad Airfield, Afghanistan, which killed all 11 individuals onboard upon impact and three Afghan Special Reaction Force (ASRF) members on the

  • Mobility Airmen support Canadian exercise in the High Arctic

    Fifty Airmen from the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing and two LC-130 ski-equipped aircraft are in the High Arctic supporting the Canadian Forces annual Operation Nunalivut exercise in Canada's Nunavut Territory.'It is the third year that the New York Airmen, based at Stratton Air