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By Lt. Col. Chris Lowe, 146 Airlift Wing / Published May 11, 2021 U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Mikael Sundin, Command Chief Master Sgt. 1st Air Force, tours a C130-E Hercules aircraft from the 152nd Airlift Wing during MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System) training at the San Bernardino Air Tanker Base, California. May 5, 2021. Utilizing C-130 aircraft equipped with the MAFFS unit, Air National Guard aircrew from the 152nd Airlift Wing and the 146th Airlift Wing wor...

The action orders assist future planning efforts and add detail and clarity to Brown’s call for Airmen to push for accelerated change in modernizing the Total Force. The Action Orders are - Action Order A, Airmen; Action Order B, Bureaucracy; Action Order C, Competition; and Action Order D, Design Implementation. “My strategic approach of ‘Accelerate Change or Lose’ explains the ‘why’,” Brown said in December when he released the Action Orders. “It is all of us ... our talented ...

The action orders assist future planning efforts and add detail and clarity to Brown’s call for Airmen to push for accelerated change in modernizing the Total Force. The Action Orders are - Action Order A, Airmen; Action Order B, Bureaucracy; Action Order C, Competition; and Action Order D, Design Implementation. “My strategic approach of ‘Accelerate Change or Lose’ explains the ‘why’,” Brown said in December when he released the Action Orders. “It is all of us ... our talented ...

By C Arce / Published May 10, 2021 Valuing Force Generators Graphic Maj. Alex Barnett, former Air University instructor and current student in the Air Command and Staff College experience, talks about his time teaching in the Squadron Officer School realm and how that shaped him as the incoming commander of the 436th Maintenance Squadron commander at Dover Air Force Base. To learn more about Developmental Special Duty Assignments visit the Developmental Special Experiences cata...

104th Air Guard members go ‘down on the farm’ for forensic search-and-rescue training Updated 8:40 AM; Today 8:40 AM More than 35 members of the Air National Guard’s 104th Fighter Wing from Westfield recently completed training at the Forensic Anthropology Center at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Known as the “Body Farm,” the training center helped unit members with the Fatality Search and Recovery Team understand the principles of forensic-biological anthropology. (SENIOR A...

New Mexico PBS honors Veterans with related programming throughout May May 05, 2021 In honor of Memorial Day and the service of United States Veterans, New Mexico PBS will air Veterans-related and Memorial Day weekend programming throughout the month of May for those who serve/served, their families, friends and communities. The programming begins on Sunday, May 9 at 10 p.m. with Ernie Pyle: Life in the Trenches.  ERNIE PYLE: LIFE IN THE TRENCHES Ch. 5.1 – Sunday, May 9, 10 p.m. Know...

By Staff Sgt. Hailey Haux, Pacific Air Forces Public Affairs / Published May 03, 2021 U.S. Air Force Gen. Ken Wilsbach, Pacific Air Forces commander, provides opening remarks during PACAF’s Commander’s Conference at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, April 20, 2021. The conference was held from April 20 through 22 where commanders and spouses were able to meet up and exchange dialogue on the Indo-Pacific region, accelerating change, Airmen resilience, the strategic lan...

4 Her tepid attempt to subdue a smile betrayed a subtle amour-propre, grounded in mollifying unpretentiousness, as she sketched a picture of her childhood home in a sub-region of West Africa on a yellow Post-It note. Called a “compound house,” she shared the square-shaped structure with her great grand-parents, cousins, and several other members of her extended family. Rooms lined the walls facing inward toward an open living-area where the resident children would spend t...

By Maj. John T. Stamm, 908th Airlift Wing / Published May 03, 2021 Senior Master Sgt. Eva Appiah, 357th Airlift Squadron first sergeant, was selected as the Air Force Reserve Command Enlisted Legilative Fellow for 2021. Appiahs journey to Legislative fellow began as a young girl in Ghana. (U.S. Air Force Courtsey Photo.) Senior Master Sgt. Eva Appiah, 357th Airlift Squadron and 908th Operations Group first sergeant speaks with Chief Master Sgt. James Rickels, 908th loadmaster s...

Vice President Kamala Harris came to Milwaukee Tuesday to tout the administrations ambitious infrastructure plan, tour UW-Milwaukees clean energy laboratories and talk about the importance of scientific research on her first trip to Wisconsin since taking office in January. Her visit came as the administration gears up to push through its American Jobs Plan, a sweeping $2.3 trillion development package aimed at improving the nations aging infrastructure, fighting climate change and creating ...