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  • EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska - Airman First Class Aaron Hasenauer, Crew Chief with the 63rd Aircraft Maintenance Unit, Luke Air Force Base, tightens the flaperon screws on a 63rd Fighter Squadron's F-16 Fighting Falcon at Red Flag Alaska. The unit is playing the role of "hostile" or "red air" forces alongside the first-ever dedicated aggressor unit to play in the Air Force-level exercise. (US Air Force Photo by TSgt Julie Avey)

    Airmen; greatest weapon at RED FLAG - Alaska

  • An F-22 Raptor lands at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, on Tuesday, May 23, 2006. Raptors from the 27th Fighter Squadron at Langley AFB, Va., are supporting Exercise Northern Edge 2006. The Air Force selected Elmendorf as the home for the next operational F-22 squadron. The base will receive 36 Raptors, with the first jet expected in fall 2007. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Keith Brown)

    F-22s arrive at Elmendorf for exercise

  • EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska - Staff Sergeant Brian Booze a Crew Chief from the 75th Fighter Squadron, Aircraft Mainteance Unit, Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina is taking part in Red Flag - Alaska . Seargent Booze is prepaing an A-10 "Warthog" for the next flying mission over the Pacific Alaskan Range Complex. (US Air Force Photo by TSgt Julie Avey)

    Airmen keep RED FLAG - Alaska moving

  • EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- Airman First Class Brandon Hopkins, a dedicated crew chief with the 63rd Aircraft Maintenance Unit, Luke AFB, Ariz., does one final Foreign Object Damage check before one of Luke's F-16 Fighting Falcon pilots starts the engine here May 2, 2006 during RED FLAG-Alaska 06-2. Luke AFB has six F-16s playing "Red Air" alongside the first dedicated Aggressor Squadron from Nellis AFB, Nev., to participate in the exercise formerly called Cope Thunder. (Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Sara Hilmoe)

    'Total force' at RED FLAG-Alaska

  • Staff Sgt. Neil Adams prepares to hit a target with a marker during a close-air-support mission at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, on Friday, April 28, 2006, during Red Flag-Alaska. Sergeant Adams is a joint terminal attack controller with the 25th Air Support Operations Squadron at Hickam AFB, Hawaii. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Aaron Wiley)

    Battlefield Airmen skills at RED FLAG – Alaska

    “I’m a totally different person than I was six years ago,” he said over his shoulder from the passenger seat of a muddy F-350 “Super Duty” Ford truck as it swung back and forth in what looked like chili. The truck leapt in and out of deep ruts as it labored up the steep access road that grants authorized personnel here access to the world’s largest

  • F-22A Raptor to Bring Air Superiority to Northern Edge 2006

    The Air Force’s newest frontline fighter, the F-22A Raptor, will make its Pacific-region debut as they participate in Exercise Northern Edge 2006 in June. Twelve F-22As from the First Fighter Wing at Langley Air Force Base, Va., along with U.S. military units stationed in the continental United States and the Pacific Theater will participate in
  • IN THE WEST SEA, Republic of Korea ? Staff Sgt. Ryan Aday (far left), crash recovery, searches for a flight data recorder among F-16 wreckage salvaged by Navy divers. The wreckage from the March 14 crash was recovered by the U.S.S. Safeguard May 10 and will assist in the investigation. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Melissa Allan)

    Catch of the day; F-16 Salvage

  • Deployed B-2s participate in Polar Lightning

    Deployed aircrew members flying B-2 Spirit bombers recently completed a sortie designed to test the Airmen’s ability to execute a long-duration mission within a few days of deploying to a forward operating base. The mission – called Polar Lightning – proved the aircraft, aircrew members and support personnel are all prepared to provide a credible
  • HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii -- Lt Col Curt Walker, Kenney Headquarters (13th Air Force) Pacific Air Operations Center, Combat Operations Division, and Wing Commander Sumana Chulamokha, Group Captain Suwit Wattanaroek (standing), and Group Captain Noi Parkperm from the Royal Thai Air Force coordinate air operations in KHQ's PAOC during the 25th annual Cobra Gold exercise hosted by Thailand. The exercise demonstrated the planning, execution and reach back capabilities KHQ can provide to the Combined Forces Air Component Commander during a joint and/or combined contingency. (Courtesy photo)

    Kenney Headquarters maximizes support to joint warfighters

    The Gen. George C. Kenney Headquarters (KHQ) (13th Air Force) is approaching the one-year mark since being established by Gen. Paul V. Hester, Pacific Air Forces commander, June 1, 2005. KHQ is designed as a fully-functional operational headquarters that commands, controls, delivers and assesses air, space and information operations for the joint

  • Chief McKinley looking forward to new job

    Command Chief Master Sgt. Rod McKinley admits he is a bit nervous about becoming the 15th chief master sergeant of the Air Force. But it is not because the job will be too tough or that becoming the Air Force’s top enlisted leader intimidates him, he said. It is the fact he will be the next chief in the long line of those he calls “the great chiefs
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