Holloman hosts air-to-ground integration exercise

Holloman hosted combat rescue officers from the 351st Special Warfare Training Squadron at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, March 12-14, 2019.

AFIT graduates 234 masters and doctoral STEM students

The Air Force Institute of Technology Graduate School of Engineering and Management awarded 234 advanced degrees at the National Museum of the United States Air Force March 21.The graduating class included 203 Air Force officers, two Air Force non-commissioned officers, eight Army officers, two

Motorcycle Safety Training: What AF riders need to know

Training season for motorcyclists is just around the corner, and as training gets into full swing, it may be helpful to shed some light on the Air Force’s training requirements, as well as what the proper acronyms are for the Motorcycle Safety Foundation courses. I’d also like to dispel some

Air Force OTS graduates largest class in school history

Air University’s Air Force Officer Training School graduated its largest class ever as more than 340 new officers tossed their hats into the air March 15, 2019, celebrating their completion of the program. The increased size of the class was a result of a paradigm shift the schoolhouse implemented

Boom goes the dynamite

Airmen from five Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams across the Air Force and members of Doña Ana County Police Department’s bomb squad gathered here for post-blast training, March 18-22, 2019.Special agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ National Center for Explosives

Excellence in all he did

(Editor's Note: Staff Sgt. John-Paul Nance will become 2nd. Lt. John-Paul Nance on March 29, 2019.)

Total Force Recruiting on Full Display at Women in Aviation Conference

The Air Force’s new integrated total force recruiting team put on a show of force at this year’s Women in Aviation International conference in Long Beach, Calif. March 14-16, 2019.In previous years, the active-duty Air Force, Air Force Reserve, Air Force Academy and other parts of the Air Force

ROKAF learns training best practices at Keesler

97 AMW First KC-46 Air Refueling

The 56th Air Refueling Squadron conducted the first air refueling from a KC-46 Pegasus to a C-17 Globemaster III for the 97th Air Mobility Wing, March 18, 2019 over Texas. The KC-46 Pegasus is a wide body, multi-role tanker that will be able to refuel all U.S., allied and coalition military aircraft

First sergeant symposium

One of the hardest working members of any squadron is the first sergeant.  These diamond-wearing Senior NCOs are constantly on the move in all of our commands.  Air Force Instruction 36-2113, “The First Sergeant”, puts their roles and responsibility into perspective… for instance, “First sergeants