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  • Cope Tiger 2016 concludes

    Months of planning and two weeks of flying and working side-by-side, came to an end for the participants of the 22nd iteration of Exercise Cope Tiger 16, during a closing ceremony, held here March 18.

  • May is Mental Health Awareness Month in Air Force

    (This is the first AFMS article for the Mental Health Awareness Month series.)Nearly one in five adults, or 43 million Americans, has a diagnosable mental disorder, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Contrary to many other brain disorders, effective treatments are available for

  • Coping with stress through healthy thinking

    Stress. Even mention of the word can increase anxiety for some. Everyone deals with stress differently, but how you cope with daily stressors can have great impacts on your quality of life and overall health.

  • Cope Taufan 16 kicks off in Malaysia

    Cope Taufan 16 provides an excellent opportunity to improve combined readiness and interoperability between the U.S. and Malaysia. This large force employment exercise will include operations in air superiority, airborne command and control, close air support, interdiction, air refueling and

  • Cope Taufan 16 kicks off

    “We are doing high end force integration efforts, because that’s the way…if we had to fight…we would fight together in this security environment,” said Col. Travis Rex, United States Air Force Exercise Director.

  • U.S., Malaysian Airmen give back

    As part of a community relations event during Cope Taufan 16, U.S. Air Force and Royal Malaysian Air Force visited two local orphanages, donated money and provided furniture to children in need, in Butterworth, Pulau Pinang, July 23, 2016. CT 16 is a PACAF-led exercise that reinforces U.S. Pacific

  • U.S., Malaysia Airmen exchange electronic warfare techniques

    Pilots use electronic warfare to simulate training scenarios, but they don’t get to decide who they shoot down when they are up there. A team on the ground controls a system called the Joint Deployable Electronic Warfare Range (JDEWR), which controls the scenario. Cope Taufan 16 marks the first

  • Cope Taufan 16, enhances U.S, Malaysia interoperability

    A closing ceremony for Cope Taufan 16 was held at Butterworth Air Base, Malaysia on July 29, 2016. Cope Taufan 16 provided an excellent opportunity to improve combined readiness and interoperability between the U.S. and Malaysia. This large force employment exercise included operations in air

  • RF-A 16-3 brings nations, joint training together

    RED FLAG-Alaska 16-3, a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored, Joint National Training Capability accredited exercise, officially started Aug. 4 with familiarization day, followed by 10 days of simulated combat sorties.Originally operated under the name COPE THUNDER, the exercise moved to Eielson in 1992