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  • Squadron tests newest F-22s and live-firing of missiles

    The 90th Fighter Squadron, 3rd Wing, deployed F-22s and personnel to Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., Oct. 30, to participate in exercise Combat Archer, the air-to-air evaluation portion of the United States Air Force's Weapons Systems Evaluation Program.The 90th FS is training and being evaluated with

  • 3rd Wing: Excellence

    The 3rd Wing continued its streak of excellence, completing the October UCI with an overall excellent rating.The wing upheld its standards of excellence set when it received an overall excellent rating during the 2009 Operational Readiness Inspection June 1-7.Units from the wing can take great pride

  • 11-year-old becomes a pilot

    When an 11-year-old becomes a pilot, it's a headline maker. When an 11-year-old survives potentially terminal brain cancer, it's a headline maker. And the heroes who made both of those things possible for 11-year-old Ryder Lum were the doctors and staff of Kapiolani Women's and Children's Hospital

  • 'Armor Balls' dropped, make pilots safer

    Area pilots can now fly safer thanks to a project six years in the making.The Bird Hazard Working Group initiated the bird hazard abatement as part of the Bird/Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard, also known as the BASH program, when members of 647th Services Squadron, 647th Contracting Squadron, 15th

  • Hickam crews drop more than 2,300 Army paratroopers in four days

    Paratroopers sat side-by-side both crushed and cozy from the weight of the massive parachute packs on their laps. Each jumper's eyes squinted from a combination of fatigue and flying dust kicked up by the ferocious winds whirling in from the C-17's side doors. Loadmasters and jumpmasters alike

  • 644 CBCS teaches first combined combat training course

    Although many Team Andersen Airmen are familiar with the Commando Warrior training course taught by the 736th Security Forces Squadron, another Air Base Defense Training Center is swiftly gaining prestige for the 36th Wing, the Combat Readiness School (CRS) offered by the 644th Combat Communications

  • Kadena Airman saves life of Okinawan boy

    It was a typical afternoon at the beach for Richard Howell and his family -- until he heard a desperate voice call out from the water. At first, Howell dismissed the Japanese voice as outside conversation, but then he realized his family was the only one still at the beach. As he got closer to the

  • One of JBER's assets for achieving air sovereignty: AWACS

    "Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contended armies, the war must become a conflict between the seeing host and one that is blind." - H.G. WellsThough fighters like the F-15 Eagle and their crack pilots are often wholly credited for quickly gaining air supremacy in conflicts