JANUARY 13, 2022 - The Air Force’s and Space Force’s highest ranking officers issued grim warnings to Congress Jan. 12, telling a House subcommittee that failing to approve a new spending plan for the current fiscal year would directly harm readiness, inhibit modernization and diminish the services’ capacity to confront emerging security threats. Rolling over the current Air … [Read more...]
Air Force Unveils ‘Develop Tomorrow’s Enlisted Airmen’ Plan
JANUARY 13, 2022 - As the service continues to refine what is needed to develop the Airmen required to fight and win our future wars, Air Force officials announced the implementation of the Enlisted Force Development Action Plan, located here. With a goal to complete 28 force development objectives in the next two years, the plan and a corresponding “Blueprint for Enlisted … [Read more...]
Airmen Participate in Exercise Southern Lightning Strike
Staff Sgt. Austin Wall of the 162nd Wing, Arizona Air National Guard, launches an F-16 fighter aircraft at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans, La. The mission is part of operation Southern Lightning Strike, an Air National Guard led exercise where units deploy from their home bases to forward operating bases with minimum personnel and equipment to accomplish the … [Read more...]
Air Force Weather Forecasters Predict the Unpredictable
JANUARY 12, 2022 - Two Al Dhafra Air Base Airmen spend their days trying to predict the unpredictable. They are weather forecasters with the 380th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron. Senior Airmen Ian Tait and Dagan Wise-Herring are part of a six-person crew that provides round-the-clock weather forecasting at Al Dhafra, giving go/no-go recommendations to flight … [Read more...]
Bringing Down the HAMR
JANUARY 12, 2022 - Running. Whether it’s errands or on the track, no Airman is spared from running, and an integral part of the Air Force physical fitness test is the mile-and-a-half run. Love it or hate it, it’s required. With January’s arrival, that has changed. “As of January 1st, 2022, the high aerobic multi-shuttle run, or HAMR, became an alternative option in place of … [Read more...]