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What is 'Black Flag?' Inside the Air Force's Newest Major Exercise F-15Es and F-16s from 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron refuel from a KC-46 over the Nevada Test and Training Range on November 17, 2020 for Large Force Test Event 20.03. (U.S. Air Force/1st Lt Savanah Bray) 29 Dec 2020 The U.S. Air Force has just signed off on a new flag exercise that brings together large weapons and capabilities under one comprehensive test event. Air Combat Command's Gen. Mark Kelly earlier this month authorized "Black Flag," a tactics and integration exercise at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, the service...

Raise the Black Flag: Nellis launches new Air Force operational test event December 28, 2020 F-22s and F-16s from 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron refuel from a KC-135 over the Nevada Test and Training Range on Nov. 17 for Large Force Test Event 20.03. LFTE 20.03 was the beta version of "Black Flag," a premier joint operational test event hosted by the 53rd Wing that validates tactics in a combat relevant environment. (1st Lt Savanah Bray/Air Force) The 53rd Wing has consolidated its series of large-scale tests at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada into a new event called Black Flag. Bla...

Tales from a Sherman Tank: A World War II Soldier Remembers a Fight Through Germany When asked if he would change anything about his war experience, he said, “If I had to do it all over again––I would have kept whiskey in my canteen.” Here's What You Need to Remember: A combat medic showed up and took Bromberg to a first aid station. “I was a physical wreck,” he admitted. Suffering from combat shock, everything became a blur. All he could remember about the station was picking up a cigarette butt off the floor. “The next thing I knew I was in a field hospital,” he said.

Source: US Air Force A U-2 Dragon Lady, assigned to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing, prepares to land at Beale AFB in California on 15 December 2020 Source: US Air Force Major “Vudu”, a U-2 Dragon Lady pilot assigned to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing, heads to the aircraft cockpit while a 9th Physiological Support Airman assists him at Beale AFB in California on 15 December 2020 Source: US Air Force The flight took place on 15 December using a U-2 Dragon Lady assigned to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing at Beale AFB in California. Air Combat Command’s U-2 Federal Laboratory researchers developed th...

And somewhere in the machine-made walls of Skynet, Miles Dyson is smiling (well, technically Miles probably hasn't had much to smile about since 1995, when the Connor's informed him that his company, Skynet, was responsible for AI taking over the U.S. nuclear arsenal and subsequently the world). Of course, the optimists in us would love to look at this news like Dr. Will Roper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, who, in writing about the historic flight for PM compared the feat to an R2 unit copiloting an X-Wing in Star Wars –– alas, we can'...