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  • Getting briefed

    WSEP tests 13th Fighter Squadron weapons capabilities

    The 13th Fighter Squadron touched down at JBPH-H to participate in Combat Hammer, an evaluation exercise, which is part of the Air Force’s weapons system evaluation program, from June 11-15.
  • Alaskan Aggressors support 3rd Wing combat readiness

    Alaskan Aggressors support PACAF 5th Gen readiness

    Training never stops, at least not for the 354th Fighter Wing’s 18th Aggressor Squadron. The unit works tirelessly year-round to support continuous combat readiness and enhance U.S. and partner nations’ skills and capabilities.
  • Lt. Col. Beau “Strap” Wilkins, 514th Flight Test Squadron F-16, makes a high-speed pass in an Indonesian F-16C Fighting Falcon Nov, 21, 2017, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alex R. Lloyd)

    U.S. Air Force completes delivery of 24 F-16s to Indonesia

    After nearly five years, the Ogden Air Logistics Complex completed regeneration work on the last six Block-25 F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft for the Government of Indonesia.
  • Alaskan Jets Fly South for the Winter

    Alaska jets fly south for the winter

    Approximately 150 personnel and 11 F-16 Fighting Falcons assigned to the 18th Aggressor Squadron traveled to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, to support the F-16 weapons instructor course (WIC) at the U.S. Air Force Weapons School.
  • Night moves

    U.S., Japan transport cargo, Airmen over 1,000 miles

    Transporting more than 100,000 lbs. of cargo and 100 U.S. Air Force Airmen over 1,000 miles to Tsuiki Air Base, Japan didn’t happen on a whim. In fact, it required months of coordination between eight agencies from the 35th Logistics Readiness Squadron to the Japan Ministry of Defense.
  • A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft takes off from the flight line during RED FLAG-Alaska 17-2 June 13, 2017, at Eielson Air Base, Alaska. RED FLAG-Alaska provides an optimal training environment in the Indo-Asia Pacific Region and focuses on improving ground, space, and cyberspace combat readiness and interoperabillity for U.S. and international forces. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Haley D. Phillips)

    'Red Flag' exercises continue providing realistic combat training

    It’s that time again when aircraft from U.S. and partner nations soar through the Alaskan sky as RED FLAG-Alaska has officially kicked-off for the final time this season. RF-A 17-3 is scheduled to run from July 27 to August 11.
  • 35th Tactical Fighter Squadron pilots pose for a group photo in front of the Squadron Building Just Prior to Departing Kunsan AB, Korea. (Courtesy Photo)

    First to fight: Panton’s celebrate 100th anniversary

    Members of the 35th Fighter Squadron gathered at Kunsan Air Base on June 12 to observe a historical base fly-over commemorating 100 years of their squadron’s history in the defense of American and now South Korean interests.
  • U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Kelly Coats, a 35th Operations Support Squadron airfield manager, poses for a photo on the flight line at Misawa Air Base, Japan, May 25, 2017. In her capacity, Coats cares for the maintenance of runways, lighting and other airfield components and systems, and helps ensure all takeoffs and landings can proceed without incident. When she’s not working, she’s drawing the base’s comic strip, “Airmanitis.” Coats’ art is her escape from reality lending to her resiliency as a warfighter in the Pacific theater. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Benjamin W. Stratton)

    Airman finds resiliency through art

    The dust whips across the street as she makes her way home from the library. Sweat drips from her brow as the hot, California sun shoos her inside.
  • U.S. Air Force and Republic of Korea Air Force members pose for a photo at Seosan Air Base, Republic of Korea during Buddy Wing 17-3, March 30, 2017. This training is a Buddy Wing exercise, a regularly-scheduled exercise that occurs several times a year. It is based on realistic tactical requirements and missions expected of our ROK-U.S. combined and joint forces assuming various threats. (Courtesy photo)

    USAF and ROKAF work hand in hand during Buddy Wing 17-3

    U.S. Air Force and Republic of Korea Air Force members pose for a photo at Seosan Air Base, Republic of Korea during Buddy Wing 17-3, March 30, 2017. This training is a Buddy Wing exercise, a regularly-scheduled exercise that occurs several times a year. It is based on realistic tactical requirements and missions expected of our ROK-U.S. combined
  • A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon taxis as a Royal Australian Air Force F-18A Hornet takes off at RAAF Williamtown, during Exercise Diamond Shield 2017 in New South Wales, Australia, March 23, 2017. The F-16 and the F-18 served as the primary platforms for providing ‘Red Air’ and ‘Blue Air’ forces, respectively. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Steven R. Doty)

    Know, teach, replicate: 18th AGRS provides world-class training during DS17

    It requires remarkable skill, dedication and discipline to become a military pilot. Despite the nation’s colors that don an aircraft’s fuselage, or what service affiliation rests on the chest’s of its aircrew, a military pilot is a capable and readily accessible force for effectively responding to and neutralizing a threat of any magnitude, at any time, or any place. However, like the students of the Royal Australian Air Force Base Air Warfare Instructors Course are learning in Exercise Diamond Shield 2017, it doesn’t come without hard work and extensive exposure to tactical exploitation by some of the most well-trained and experienced fighter combat instructors in the world; the 18th Aggressor Squadron from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska.
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