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  • Training Pilots for the Post 9/11 World

    On Sept 11th, 2001, I was 18 and beginning my military career at the New Mexico Military Institute for a year of academic prep before attending the U.S. Air Force Academy. I was studying for my first class of the day when my mother messaged me saying something terrible was happening in New York.

  • Proactive wellness: Altus AFB establishes Operational Support Team

    In 2018, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force led an effort to establish a new healthcare model called Operational Support Teams to provide individual health and unit support. The “Mighty 97th” established an OST at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma in May of 2024.

  • 33rd Current Ops: Scheduled delivery of combat air power

    EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — Despite working in a converted loft of an old F-15 simulator building with no windows, the 33rd Operations Support Squadron, Current Operations unit, makes critical contributions to the wing’s mission.Current Ops is exactly what it sounds like, current operations

  • Air Force realigns to ensure readiness, future competitiveness

    The Air Force is organizing its major commands, or MAJCOMs, into Institutional Commands, responsible for organizing, training, and equipping Airmen, and Service Component Commands, responsible for preparing Airmen for warfighting in a combatant command’s area of responsibility. The changes are part

  • AETC senior NCOs immerse in history during Gettysburg trip

    Examples of Airmen and their predecessors operating in austere, Agile Combat Employment-like conditions under immense pressure, while sustaining high numbers of casualties is not new and has been a feature of many past conflicts.

  • Col. Maguinness Reviews BMT Graduation

    Col. Angelina Maguinness, 17th Training Wing commander, reviewed a Basic Military Training graduation and invited Honorary Commanders to experience trainees becoming Airmen and Guardians.

  • Out but Not Down

    His condition; critical. Recovery; unlikely. Master Sergeant Anthony Dunn, 51st Security Forces Squadron, superintendent Osan Air Base, South Korea, passed his fitness test with ease, but without warning he would wake up in a hospital bed fighting for his life, not even knowing why.

  • Team Vance Airman named Global Gaming Ambassador for Overwatch

    Airman 1st Class Miguel Angel Herrada was selected as the Global Gaming Ambassador for Overwatch, an online team-based video game. His mission is to build the Air Force’s competitive Overwatch team and organize tournaments for Airmen and Guardians across the country.