Paratroopers from the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, United States Army Alaska, parachuted into Andersen Air Force Base, Guam on Jun. 30 after being flown in from Joint Base Elemendorf-Richardson, Alaska. More than 400 paratroopers than seize and secured the airfield as part of their Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise.

One KC-135 and seven KC-46 tankers took part in a weather evacuation exercise at McConnell Air Force Base on Jul. 1.

Helicopter pilots from the UAE’s Joint Air Command carried out deck landing qualifications (DLQs) aboard USS Lewis B. Puller in the Arabian Gulf as part of the combined naval and air training operations with U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) and U.S. Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT). This Air Operations in Maritime Surface Warfare (AOMSW) […]

The Pentagon has given General Electric a $101.4 million contract for an unspecific number of F110-GE-129 engines to power the F-15EX Lot 1 aircraft. The military had said earlier it will open the engine choice to competition. The Pentagon said in the Jun. 30 press release that the “award is the result of an unusual […]