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  • Rescue teams hone skills during Pacific Thunder 16-2

    A-10 Thunderbolt IIs are making low passes over mountaintops, providing covering fire for two HH-60 Pave Hawks carrying Air Force rescue teams as they all coordinate to find pilots down behind enemy lines. A distress call is heard on the radio over the roaring of the rotor blades in the background

  • Black Cats deliver air power during Arctic Anvil

    U.S. Air Force personnel work alongside U.S. Army personnel during exercise Arctic Anvil, July 19, 2016, at Ladd Army Airfield, Alaska. Arctic Anvil is an integrated combined, joint and coalition training event and gives Mobility Air Forces a greater opportunity to train with joint and coalition

  • 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.

  • Kadena KC-135, Minot B-52 Support RIMPAC

    Aircrew from the 909th Aircraft Refueling Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, participate in the Rim of the Pacific Exercise over the Pacific Ocean, July 14, 2016. Twenty-six nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June

  • 15th OSS airfield management ops tempo picks up for RIMPAC

    The Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam’s flightline activity is increasing as aircraft participating in the Rim of the Pacific Exercise 2016 arrive, this month, increasing the responsibilities of the 15th Operations Support Squadron Airfield Management Flight.

  • Exercise Pacific Thunder 16-2 kicks off with CSAR scenarios

    ROK and U.S. Air Forces kicked-off Exercise Pacific Thunder July 11, 2016, an annual combined combat search and rescue exercise focused on enhancing the combat readiness of U.S. and ROK air forces through combined combat search and rescue training.

  • 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

  • Philippine Air Contingent wraps up activity, cooperation

    The second detachment of the U.S. Air Contingent to the Philippines, U.S. Navy Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 138 expeditionary detachment, recently completed training alongside the Armed Forces of the Philippines for routine operational missions that enhance regional maritime domain awareness.

  • Building strategic partnerships

    Members of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force and Ground Self-Defense Force toured the 353rd Special Operations Group on Kadena Air Base, Japan, June 21, 2016. The tour enhances partnerships between military members from both nations. The JASDF and JGSDF officers were briefed on the mission and