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  • Reserve tactical airlift unit uses upgraded night-vision devices

    Imagine a nearly pitch black space. The hand you can only faintly see in front of you rises to flip a battery pack towards your forehead and a faint hum of power buzzes incessantly like a mosquito in the summertime.White light emits from two electronically connected monocular devices.You thumb and

  • 302 AW Airmen embody Agile Combat Employment via aerial firefighting

    In January 2022, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., signed the service’s first doctrine publication on Agile Combat Employment, presenting expeditionary and multi-capable Airmen who can accomplish tasks in a contested and combat environment. At the 302nd Airlift Wing, Airmen have been

  • Welcome home, Global Vikings

    More than 75 Airmen from the 934th Airlift Wing returned home on May 19, from a three-month overseas deployment to the United States European Command area of responsibility in support of Ukraine.

  • AF crowns Readiness Challenge VIII winners, plans FOC event in 2023

    TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — Following a more than 20-year competition hiatus, the Air Force civil engineering community crowned winners of the Air Force Civil Engineer Readiness Challenge April 22, 2022. Surrounded by a crowd of more than 400 civil engineers — competitors, cadre and team

  • There's a first time for everything

    The 934th Airlift Wing recently conducted a week-long exercise called Viking Shield. A major proponent of this exercise involved a simulated tactical deployment from Minneapolis-St. Paul Air Reserve Station to Volk Field Air National Guard Base, Wis. Most of the participating Airmen have experienced

  • Reserve Airman makes history with first USAF-piloted eVTOL vehicle flight

    Just south of his home in Brooklyn, New York, a young Terrence McKenna spent much of his childhood in Prospect Park tossing around wooden gliders and flying remote-controlled airplanes, each aircraft more complex and capable than the last.By the early 2000s, McKenna came across an ad for flying