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  • Airmen become resilience 'warriors', better leaders

    On the path to self-improvement, people often cite variations of the quote "it's not the destination that matters, but the journey."For the Airmen who recently ascended to the "Warrior" tier of the Leadership Pathways (LP) initiative, the lessons learned along the way about becoming more resilient

  • Scott's Det. 1 performs Combat Flight Inspection mission

    Nestled in the outskirts of Oklahoma City is a small group of Scott Airmen who perform an important and unique mission that ensures the safety of the aircraft and their crews who fly in and around combat zones.Located as part of the Federal Aviation Administration's Mike Monroney Aeronautical

  • Team McChord performs during Rainier War

    In today's military, aircrews have to be trained and ready to handle any type of combat scenario, and recently, members of McChord Field and other bases participated in an exercise titled "Rainier War" to help them hone their skills.Aircrews from Joint Bases Lewis-McChord, Wash, Pearl Harbor-Hickam,

  • C-141 'Hanoi Taxi' moved into new AF Museum building

    Restoration crews at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force moved the Lockheed C-141C Hanoi Taxi into the museum's new fourth building on Dec. 16. The aircraft, which airlifted the first American prisoners of war out of North Vietnam in February 1973, will be displayed in the Global Reach

  • AMC hosts wing commanders at fall Phoenix Rally

    More than 100 Mobility Air Force active duty, Guard and Reserve wing commanders and command chiefs will gather here Dec. 1-3 for Air Mobility Command's fall Phoenix Rally -- a three-day, focused look at command priorities, roles and missions."This event gives Total Force leaders who enable the

  • A grasshopper's final hop

    From a storage facility in Ohio to a museum in Delaware, a piece of U.S. Air Force heritage has a new home.A C-17A Globemaster III, operated by the 3d Airlift Squadron, 436th Airlift Wing, transported a Taylorcraft L-2M "Grasshopper" aircraft from storage at the National Museum of the United States

  • Mobility airmen, nations gather exercise Gunfighter Flag

    Airmen from Travis Air Force Base, California, recently participated alongside other Airmen from various bases, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Singapore air force, in the week-long total-force exercise Gunfighter Flag.The joint advanced combat operations training exercise took place from Nov.

  • Scott AFB joins community in developing cyber specialists

    Under the direction of the Air Force's community partnering program, Scott's Cyber Airmen have joined forces with other cyber experts in the region to participate in the newly formed Midwest Cyber Center of Excellence.Base officials will work with the Leadership Council Southwestern Illinois,

  • 18th Air Force supports largest NATO exercise in 20 years

    Multiple 18th Air Force units worked together to perform a personnel drop of more than 500 82nd Airborne Division Paratroopers in support of Exercise Ultimate Reach, Nov. 2 - 7, a subsection of NATO's largest exercise in 20 years, Exercise Trident Juncture.Ultimate Reach is an annual U.S.

  • Linking continents through refueling

    Eight KC-10 Extenders, including two from the 32nd Air Refueling Squadron, took off to refuel seven C-17 Globemaster IIIs over the Atlantic Ocean as they began their participation in Exercise Trident Juncture Nov. 3, 2015.Exercise Trident Juncture includes 36,000 personnel from more than 30 nations