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  • 505th CCW supports largest U.S. Army Warfighter exercise on record

    The 505th Command and Control Wing supported the U.S. Army's Mission Command Training Program during its execution of Warfighter Exercise 21-1, the largest WFX ever conducted.The exercise directly trained over 5,300 joint warfighters and accomplished training objectives for 12 training audiences

  • NTTR: Training our way to victory

    Red Flag, an air-to-air combat exercise for pilots, and Green Flag, a ground combat training exercise, are two of the largest training operations in the Department of Defense. The NTTR enables training opportunities like these, while also providing a practice home to the U.S. Air Force Aerial

  • Vehicle maintenance keeps Nellis 'rolling'

    The smell of motor oil fills the air as grease covered mechanics survey the garage full of vehicles waiting to be inspected or repaired.Vehicle maintainers assigned to the 99th Logistics Readiness Squadron here spend their days ensuring the extensive vehicle fleet on base is maintained and mission

  • Virtual training center leverages enhanced warfighter capabilities

    The Air Force relies on forward-thinking Airmen who are constantly thinking of ways to innovate, refine or improve processes and technology in a way that can modernize the service and its tactics. Nellis Airmen have heard, and answered, that call, and so with the snip of a ribbon, on Aug. 17 the

  • USAF Weapons School continues to innovate air superiority

    Covid-19 has created a new normal and everyday life is now categorized as either essential or non-essential. Unfortunately for the adversaries of the United States, the U.S. Air Force Weapons School (USAFWS) located on Nellis Air Force Base remains essential, delivering training to the warfighters

  • U.S. and coalition maintainers train at Red Flag 20-2

    Spanish air force crew members assigned to the 142nd Squadron at Albacete Air Base, perform pre-flight checks on a Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft during Red Flag 20-2 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, March 10, 2020. Eurofighter Typhoon is the world’s most advanced swing-role combat aircraft,

  • USAFWS uses crew swaps to enhance training

    The U.S. Air Force Weapons School fighter pilots are preparing for rigorous combat battle rhythms with the integration of rapid crew swap exercises. These exercises require aircrews and aircraft maintainers to launch and recover the jets in one-third the normal time.

  • Bolt AMU: bringing the future faster

    It all begins on the walls of a stereotypical conference room cluttered with large drawn out diagrams, procedures and step-by-step directions of how Bolt Aircraft Maintenance Unit (AMU) gets their fleet of F-35A Lightning IIs mission-ready on a daily basis. Maintenance personnel and civilians are

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