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  • Family: The foundation of Warrior Hearts

    America’s Airmen enter a Warrior Heart culture when they take their oath, but it’s the families who are the foundation of Warrior mentality.During the 2023 Airlift/Tanker Association Conference in Grapevine, Texas, Gen. Mike Minihan, Air Mobility Command commander, acknowledged this fighting courage

  • AFFORGEN-ready: JB MDL completes KC-46A Pegasus certification

    Roughly 120 service members and five KC-46A Pegasus tankers assigned to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., participated in the first-ever certification event for the KC-46A Pegasus during Neptune Series exercise at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., Oct. 21-Nov. 2.

  • The Sunset of the KC-10: A Farewell to an Aerial Refueling Legend

    In a ceremony on October 4th, 2023, history was made as the KC-10 aerial refueling aircraft, assigned to the 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), was officially deactivated. The event marked the end of an era in military aviation and highlighted the changing landscape of air power in

  • ANG maintenance team combines experience during MG23

    More than 130 Airmen assigned to four wings across the Connecticut, Montana, and Missouri Air National Guard united to form the C-130 Hercules Force Element here during Mobility Guardian 23, July 5-21, 2023. Fifty-eight maintainers assigned to the 139th Airlift Wing, 120th AW, 103rd AW, and Advanced

  • Coalition teamwork in the Pacific theater

    Teamwork was the name of the game for Exercise Mobility Guardian 23.Seven countries partnered for this large-scale exercise that spanned 4,000 miles of the Pacific. More than 70 aircraft and 15,000 personnel from Australia, Canada, France, Japan, New Zealand, U.K., and the U.S. participated.“There

  • Team Fairchild participates in Global Thunder 23

    Airmen from the 92nd Air Refueling Wing, 141st ARW and 6th ARW from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, participated in the U.S. Strategic Command exercise Global Thunder 23 (GT23), April 11-18, 2023 at Fairchild AFB.Global Thunder is an annual command and control and field training exercise designed

  • Dover AFB supports US Navy MQ-4C Triton mission in Guam

    Teamwork between the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Air Force facilitated the shipment of Forward Operating Base equipment and a Mobile Remote Quick Look trailer to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, in support of MQ-4C Triton Orbit 1 operations, Feb. 1, 2023.The MQ-4C is an unmanned