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  • When you can give, the Air Force Assistance Fund gives back

    Since 1942, the AFAF campaign has been run by the Air Force family to help the Air Force family. Whether we are aware of it or not, each of us knows someone who has been helped by the Fund. Anything we can do today helps ensure that assistance will be available for other Airmen and other families

  • A-10 Thunderbolt accident investigation released

    Air Combat Command Headquarters Public Affairs Directorate115 Thompson Avenue, Suite 211 Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va. 23665-1987Main Line: (757) 764-5007Email: accpa.operations@us.af.milRelease No: 0401 Apr 12, 2018Two A-10C’s collided over the Nevada Test and Training Range on Sept. 6, 2017, due

  • Souring high: Red Tail WSO, mentor reaches 4,000 flying hours

    UNDISCLOSED LOCATION - Members of 336th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron along with 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing leadership surprised a weapons system officer, or WSO, when he landed March 21, 2018, at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia.During the flight, Lt. Col. Trinidad “Moses” Meza, 336th

  • AMMOS celebrates 15th anniversary

    The U.S. Air Force Advanced Maintenance and Munitions Operations School (AMMOS) celebrated its 15th anniversary recently with the graduation of Class 18-A.

  • Air Force Assistance Fund: Taking care of our own

    NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. - This year’s Air Force Assistance Fund “Taking Care of Our Own” campaign will run from March 26 to May 4, 2018 on Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. The Air Force Assistance Fund campaign is an annual, on-the-job fundraising appeal conducted by Air Force personnel for the

  • KC-135s participate in Red Flag 18-2

    Airmen from Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, traveled from Washington to Nevada to participate in a two-week combat scenario exercise called Red Flag 18-2 with units from other bases.Red Flag is an exercise organized at Nellis Air Force Base and hosted north of Las Vegas on the Nevada Test and

  • 24th TASS activates, focuses on close air support

    The 24th Tactical Air Support Squadron activated March 2 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. The 24th TASS is an F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet squadron whose primary function is training, supporting and performing close air support. “Starting up a new squadron is a unique situation because we can

  • Red Flag 18-2: building confidence, leadership, warfighter culture

    Red Flag 18-2 is underway at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Flights will generate twice daily from the base through March 23, for realistic training scenarios that will be conducted over the skies of Nevada Test and Training Range north of Las Vegas.  The exercise is America’s premier integration

  • Airmen participate in joint rescue mission

    Rescue Airmen from the 23d Wing recently participated in a joint rescue operation alongside other Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps assets, approximately 675 nautical miles off the coast of California. The 66th Rescue Squadron, a 23d Wing geographically separated unit at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.,

  • HH-60s train over the NTTR

    The HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter conducts day or night personnel recovery operations in hostile environments to recover isolated personnel during war.

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