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  • 355 SFS battle for top shot

    Approximately 40 Airmen competed in a shooting competition, here May 17.It provided Airmen the chance to display their skill and accuracy with the M9, the standard sidearm of the U.S. Air Force since 1985.The competition is part of this year's Police Week and is traditionally held between Airmen

  • D-M Airmen ruck for vets

    members of the D-M community participated in the annual Rucking for Vets event at the Colossal Cave Mountain Park in Vail ,Arizona, May 11.Rucking for Vets is a grass roots effort led by local D-M Airmen. The goal is to raise money in support of the Wounded Warrior Project. The event consisted of

  • Army Reserve aviation unit participates in Angel Thunder

    An unlikely aviation partner in the Air Combat Command-sponsored Exercise Angel Thunder was the 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment from the U.S. Army Reserve. Units from California, Texas, Kansas, Colorado and Kentucky converged at here to form an Aviation Battalion Task Force with five CH-47D

  • Angel Thunder 13 exercises train rescue units

    Air-sea battles, high altitude and urban irregular warfare, security cooperation operations, contested degraded operations and Defense Support of Civil Authorities were just some of the many scenarios that rescue assets faced during Angel Thunder 13, April 7-20. The largest and most realistic rescue

  • Fusilier Kinne's POW Perspective Prior to Angel Thunder Kickoff

    Fusilier Derek Kinne, a prisoner of war during the Korean War, helped bring realism to the start of Angel Thunder 13, with his opening remarks to the 500 participants. Kinne was awarded the George Cross Medal for valor he showed in withstanding torture at the hands of the Chinese Communist forces

  • Ambassador Ray participates in Angel Thunder 13

    Here for his third Angel Thunder, former Ambassador Charles Ray shared his decades of experience in the Department of State Embassy environment with exercise participants focused on improving interagency coordination. Angel Thunder 13 involved more interagency participation than any previous Angel

  • C-130 MedTrans

    Throughout the two-week Angel Thunder rescue exercise, the HC-130J Combat King II and the combat search and rescue medical elements who execute casualty evacuation missions, trained in providing critical care for more than 60 simulated wounded personnel en-route to better equipped medical

  • COLAF

    For an injured service member, being flown to safety in a Colombian C-130 is seamless in Angel Thunder, where coalition members participate alongside their American rescue counterparts to bring anyone, anywhere, anytime, to safety.In operations ranging from air drops, troop infill and exfill

  • ALS students donate furniture to veterans

    Forty six Airmen from the Airman Leadership School here donated furniture to local homeless military veterans, May 4. Volunteer students spent about three hours loading a truck with furniture from the ALS building. The furniture donated by the school will be used to furnish rooms and provide homes

  • 755th keeps Compass Call jamming

    How do you get a plane that weighs more than 100,000 pounds to get off the ground and keep flying? The 755th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron here has been doing just that.The unit's mission is to provide a safe, reliable, mission capable EC-130H Compass Call aircraft to the 55th Electronic Combat