Mobility Airmen enhance ACE, MCA capabilities during three-week OST miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Senior Airman Aaron Irvin, 19th Airlift Wing Public Affairs / Published April 05, 2021
Airman 1st Class Mitchell Harrison and Senior Airman Dario Dominguez, 61st Airlift Squadron loadmasters, drop a simulated sea rescue kit off the coast of Florida during a three-week capstone training event, March 17, 2021. This capstone helped build a baseline for C-130J Hercules Agile Combat Employment operations and future warfighting capability. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Aaron Irvin)
Airman 1st Class Shantique Goins, 61st Airlift Squadron loadmaster, conducts a pre-flight check during a three-week capstone training event at the Boise Airport, Idaho, March 13, 2021. This capstone training tested the ability to operate in austere environments with a minimal footprint. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Aaron Irvin)
U.S. nuclear weapons are aging quickly. With few spare parts, how long can they last? By Tara Copp, McClatchy Washington Bureau
Published: April 4, 2021, 12:30pm
Share: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley departs Missile Alert Facility Oscar near Minot Air Force base, N.D., on Thursday. Milley visited the base to get a close-up look at the baseCf`Us aging strategic bombers and missiles before he appears before Congress next month to push for funding to modernize the weapons. (Tara Copp/McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. – When hundreds of land-based nuclear armed ballistic missiles were first lowered into underground cement silos spread across the vast cornfields here in 1970, the weapons were only intended to last a decade before a newer system came in.
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LITTLE ROCK AIR FORCE BASE, Ark. The 61st Airlift Squadron recently completed a multi-week, off-station training (OST) event spanning across Boise, Idaho, Key West, Florida, and Wilmington, North Carolina, March 8-28.
Completing 106 sorties, 254 flying hours, and nearly 2,000 training events, the 61st AS, 19th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, 19th Logistics Readiness Squadron, and 19th Operations Support Squadron sought to tackle Agile Combat Employment, distributed operations, and the Multi-Capable Airmen (MCA) concept.
“As we continue to accelerate change, we have to think outside the box on how we train,” said Capt. Dmytro Pichkur, 61st AS pilot and OST mission commander. “This OST provided a venue to test how the C-130 fits into the picture of the future fight, while simultaneously reducing our overall footprint.”