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  • Team Dover supports AFMAO

    This story is the first in a seven-part series highlighting the support provided to the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations by the 436th Airlift Wing and other Team Dover mission partners.It was a cold January night, and a C-17A Globemaster III had just landed after making its journey across the

  • Media flight tops off Thunderbirds

    Projecting airpower around the world is only possible with the aid of aerial refueling. That capability recently had a sky-high date with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.On Feb. 19, 2016, a KC-135 Stratotanker crew from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida flew out to New Mexico to rendezvous with the

  • McChord Maintenance Response Team: Ready at a moment's notice

    An inevitable part of flying any aircraft is that they will need maintenance at some point or another. One particular C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 62nd Airlift Wing needed that maintenance when it broke down at North Island Naval Station, California, Feb. 16.A four-person Maintenance

  • GREEN FLAG 16-04: Improving Combat Airlift from ground up

    The 34th Combat Training Squadron recently planned, coordinated and conducted one of Air Mobility Command's largest rotational exercises.GREEN FLAG 16-04 crews transitioned from Little Rock Air Force Base to the exercise's staging base in Alexandria, Louisiana for sorties supporting Army operations

  • USSTRATCOM holds bomber, tanker stakeholder meeting on Scott AFB

    Adm. Cecil D. Haney, U.S. Strategic Command commander, hosted the Bomber - Tanker Stakeholder Meeting, the latest iteration of nuclear enterprise stakeholder meetings, here Feb. 11 and 12.Senior leadership and experts from more than 10 organizations, including Air Mobility Command, Air Force Global

  • Mobility Airmen enable Army crisis response exercise in Africa

    Members of the U.S. Army's Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment from Fort Stewart, Georgia, completed a validation exercise Feb. 13, 2016, at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, displaying their ability to assume responsibility from Alpha Company, 3-15 Infantry Regiment, as the East Africa

  • High altitude training strengthens US, NATO military capability

    Air Force Reserve tanker aircrew and aircraft maintainers from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., joined forces with U.S. European Command and NATO fighter squadrons to execute refueling training missions from Jan. 25-Feb. 4, in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve.Operation Atlantic Resolve

  • McConnell Dental clinic extends helping hand for Iraqi partner

    The dental clinic here extended a helping hand to a foreign national during an emergency dental procedure carried out mid-January at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas.Hasanain Abdulameer, an Iraqi national, is attending an aircraft training class under a Department of Defense-sponsored program and

  • Travis Airmen's readiness tested during exercise Crisis Look

    Members of all three wings at Travis Air Force Base, California, participated in exercise Crisis Look 16-01 from Feb. 1 to 6 as part of an effort to assess the installation's ability to deploy a large body of personnel on short notice.Crisis Look was designed to evaluate the level of compliance with

  • KC-46 tanker successfully refuels F/A-18

    A U.S. Air Force and Boeing aircrew aboard the KC-46 tanker successfully refueled an F/A-18 fighter jet in flight Feb. 10.The air refueling was the program's first using the KC-46's hose and drogue system. It took place in the skies over Washington state.According to Boeing, the flight lasted more