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  • SERE candidates face trial by fire at JBSA-Camp Bullis

    Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape, or SERE, candidates must overcome roughly a year’s worth of demanding training before calling themselves SERE specialists. Their trails start with the SERE Specialist Training and Orientation Course, or SST-OC.

  • RAWS helps Columbus AFB planes roar through the skies

    Flying without a radio is extremely difficult and extremely dangerous just as flying headfirst into a storm can be a risky endeavor, but the 14th Operations Support Squadron Radar, Airfield and Weather Systems (RAWS) Flight knows exactly what it takes to keep pilots aware and communicating

  • Deployment training reinforces critical skills

    On the grounds of the Air Force’s largest medical mobility mission, the 59th Medical Wing amplifies critical readiness and combat skills to enhance joint service integration downrange. Most of the wing’s military personnel are assigned to one of several readiness teams, which act as building blocks

  • Command & control battle management operations: Controlling the chaos

    A U.S. Air Force pilot’s primary mission is to strap into their aircraft and put bombs on target, deliver cargo around the world, or surveil the battlefield. They are the tip of the spear.That spear, however, is wielded by a group of highly professional and technically competent enlisted Airmen

  • Readiness reform bolsters largest mobility mission

    Through the faint glow of night, a medic provides lifesaving care to a fallen teammate in Southwest Asia, doing everything in his power to stabilize the patient until the stretcher gets into a hospital.Four months prior, that same medic couldn’t have saved that life had it not been for the 59th

  • Air Force pros gather for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Training Summit

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas— Air Education and Training Command officials sponsored the first Remotely Piloted Aircraft Training Summit July 10-12, at the 558th Flying Training Squadron.  The event brought together professionals from throughout the RPA community across the Air Force.  The

  • SecAF, DoD, industry leaders share stage at 2018 AFITC

    Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson and the service’s new assistant secretary for acquisitions, technology and logistics, Dr. Will Roper, are two of the military keynote speakers sharing the stage with industry leaders at this year’s Air Force Information Technology and Cyberpower Conference.