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  • Dyess maintainer earns PhD

    According to Air Force personnel data, Dyess’ Senior Master Sgt. Erik Kast is the only enlisted Airman in the 2A (maintenance) career field to hold a Doctor of Philosophy degree, more commonly known as a doctoral degree or PhD.Kast, who currently serves as Dyess’ 7th Equipment Maintenance Squadron

  • Optimize aviation fuel? The Air Force wants your ideas

    In partnership with AFWERX, Air Force Operational Energy has launched an Airmen Powered by Innovation Challenge to solicit ideas on how to optimize aviation fuel for the Air Force, enabling greater combat capability, range, and more efficient operations. The challenge is open to Airmen of all ranks

  • Revolutionizing Aircrew training through virtual reality

    A new virtual reality trainer is one step closer to potentially transforming the way B-52 Stratofortress student pilots train for combat. The Virtual Reality Procedures Trainer, released during a milestone demonstration of its capabilities July 7, at StrikeWerx in Bossier City, Louisiana, may even

  • Colliding with opportunity

    If you’ve taken an Air Force Physical Fitness Test, you know this feeling:You just ran a personal best in the 1.5 mile run. Your lungs are on fire and you are drenched in sweat. You’re trying to fill out the paper AF Form 4446 and you write in your time but your seven starts to look like a nine and

  • Never said no: An Airman’s story of never giving up

    Life has an arsenal of challenges it can throw at someone to wreak havoc upon their life, and a child stricken with cancer is among the most difficult.Diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer at the age of four, Airman 1st Class Isaiah E. Nieves, 2nd Maintenance Squadron aerospace ground equipment

  • 595th C2G under new leadership

    The 595th Command and Control Group and the National Airborne Operations Center held a change of command ceremony here July 9, 2020.

  • Ellsworth provides key support for Salute to America celebration

    President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump disembark Air Force One shortly after landing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., July 3, 2020. The president and first lady landed at Ellsworth en route to Mount Rushmore National Memorial for the Salute to America event. (U.S. Air Force photo

  • A legacy of wings

    Alone, with a few weeks’ worth of clothes and food packed into his 1991 Nissan Maxima, 16-year-old Nathan Cooper made the two-day drive from Nevada to Montana to enroll in flying lessons out of the local airport on the weekends. At the time, learning to fly was a passion he grew up with, but it

  • Maj. Gen. Michael Lutton takes command of 20th Air Force

    Maj. Gen. Michael J. Lutton took command of 20th Air Force from Maj. Gen. Ferdinand “Fred” B. Stoss at a change of command ceremony at F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, July 8, 2020.Lt. Gen. Anthony Cotton, deputy commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, presided over the ceremony, in front

  • STRIKEWERX Spark Sprint competition opens, drives new ideas for Airmen

    Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen have a new means to influence change at the wing, major command, and Air Force level through the STRIKEWERX Spark Sprint.Also known as S3, the STRIKEWERX Spark Sprint is AFGSC’s competition to identify the best ideas from across the organization that will go on