July 22, 2022 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
June 23, 2022 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
June 21, 2022 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.
April 23, 2022 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
April 14, 2022 Stayin’ Alive: 934 CCATT bring lifesaving skills to exercise When service members need immediate medical attention in the middle of the most dangerous places on earth, they call none other than the Critical Care Air Transport Team.
April 13, 2022 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
March 17, 2022 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
Feb. 22, 2022 Far from Home: Global Vikings deploy to European Theater in support of Allies Aircrew and maintainers of the 934th Airlift Wing deployed to the EUCOM area of responsibility on Feb. 16, 2022. The Airmen were mobilized to satisfy a short-notice deployment as part of prudent steps the United States is taking to heighten the readiness of its forces at home and abroad so they are
Nov. 3, 2021 Talk to me, Airman: 934th Airlift Wing Airmen learn to shoot, move and communicate 934th Aeromedical Staging Squadron Airmen engage multiple targets while working in two-person teams with M4 carbines at the new Shoot, Move and Communicate course at Minneapolis-St. Paul Air Reserve Station in the middle of October.
Sept. 30, 2021 Going...Going...GIAD! Several members of the 934th Airlift Wing participated in the 7th Annual Girls in Aviation Day event hosted by the Women in Aviation International at the Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie, Minn., Sept. 25.