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Get the most out of your Galaxy S21 Ultra with these 10 apps and features The Galaxy S21 Ultra is the best smartphone Ive ever used. Taking all of the good points from last years S20 Ultra and fixing many of the complaints, this device is an absolute powerhouse. To paraphrase Uncle Ben, with great hardware comes great flexibility, and as such, there are plenty of apps and resources you can use to make the most of your shiny new phone, and here are 10 of our favorites. Infinite Painter The S Pen...

by Roger D. Harris / February 25th, 2021 US President Biden bellicosely proclaimed, “American is back,” in his major foreign policy priorities speech at the Munich Security Conference on February 19. Repeated twice for effect, Biden signaled the end of the Trump interregnum. No more assuring words could have been uttered for George W. Bush’s former Defense Secretary Colin Powell and the 70 odd Republican national security officials, who wrote an open letter endorsing Biden out of fear tha...

F/A-18 Hornet and KC-135 Stratotanker. Photo: Finnish Air Force. Finnish Air Force F/A-18 Hornets will train with a United States Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueling aircraft from 9 to 10 February 2021. The Finnish Air Force conducts an air-to-air refueling (AAR) exercise with the United States Air Force two times a year. The objective of the exercises is to provide fighter pilots with AAR proficiency and currency training opportunities. Finnish F/A-18 pilots ...

By Kevin “K5” Michels, edited by Stephen Chapis Texas Raiders, Kevin “K5” Michels recently submitted another excellent article that detailed the history behind the famous one-wheel pass performed by  Texas Raiders at air shows across the country. Donning his distinctive flat-brim straw hat, an otherwise non-descript elderly man would leave his home for a daily 5-mile walk, telling his beloved wife that he was “going out to chase girls”.  He would return four hours later.  Not b...

7 RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany – When U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Aaron Solis enlisted in the Michigan Air National Guard’s 110th Wing nearly 16 years ago, he never thought he’d be where he is today, serving at the 603d Air Operations Center (AOC), Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The 603d AOC provides planning and directing initiatives, and assesses operational level command and control of integrated air, space, and cyber power in support of two combatant commands: U.S. European ...

By   Theresa Hitchens on February 18, 2021 at 3:16 PM Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown WASHINGTON: The Air Force Chief of Staff is calling on the Pentagon leadership to launch a targeted roles and missions review of the key functional areas of future All Domain Operations detailed in the impending Joint Warfighting Concept.  “I wouldn’t actually go through a complete roles and missions [review],” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown told the Defense Writers Group. “But I do...

Benjamin Fogel worked at the United Nations, European Union, and most recently at NATO Allied Air Command at Ramstein Air Base. He is interested in alliance-building, emerging disruptive technologies, and asymmetric threats in Eastern Europe and South America. He was named a Junior Ambassador to the 2020 Munich Security Conference and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he studied mitigating cognitive biases in intelligence analysis. He has lived in London, Geneva, Brussel...

2005      Masters of Science, Graduate Engineering Management, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 2006      BDE, Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Ala. 2011      IDE, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Ala., by correspondence 2020      SDE, Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Ala., by correspondence ASSIGNMENTS 2.  November 2002 – August 2003:  Chief, Housing Facilities, 325th Civil Engineer Squadron, Tyndall AFB, Fla. 3.  August 2003 �...

In year two, the Space Force is focused on international partnerships February 4 Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond, right, meets Feb. 2 with Gen. Jeff Harrigian, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Africa, center, and French Lt. Gen. Pascal Delerce, Allied Air Command deputy commander, at the NATO Allied Air Command headquarters at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. (NATO Headquarters Allied Air Command) WASHINGTON — If the first year of the U.S. Space Force’s existence was ...

Date Time Spartan Warrior 21-1 enhances joint interoperability capabilities Spartan Warrior 21-1 finished at the Distributed Training Center, at Einsiedlerhof Air Station, Germany Jan. 25-28. Spartan Warrior is the DTC’s premier tactical-level virtual Large Force Employment exercise. This training provides a venue to forge strong partnerships in support of U.S. Africa Command campaign objectives of building alliance distributed training capacity and capability, enabling joint and NATO intero...