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  • Royal Australian Air Force aircraft No.6 Squadron (SQN) EA-18G Growler, a No.1 SQN F/A-18F Super Hornet and from No.3 SQN, a F-35A Lightning aircraft, fly alongside a United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft from the 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron based at Guam, during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2021. (Photo credit: SGT Andrew Eddie)

    US Air Force B-52s showcase long reach of American airpower during Talisman Sabre 2021

    The edge of the B-52H Stratofortress's wing flexes upward toward the horizon as the behemoth banks westward over the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean.
  • A C-130J Super Hercules assigned to the 36th Airlift Squadron sits on the flightline at Yokota Air Base, Japan, July 29, 2021.

    First Army Exercise Forager 21 gets a lift from 36th AS

    Aircrew assigned to the 36th Airlift Squadron helped transport Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers with the 1st Airborne Brigade and U.S. Army Soldiers with 82nd Airborne Division, 1st Special Forces Group, to a drop zone in Guam to test their jumping capabilities.
  • U.S. Air Force aircrew from the 366th Fighter Wing depart to complete an Integrated Combat Turn on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, July 24, 2021.U.S. Performing ICTs decreases the aircrews' time on the ground and increases the Air Force's ability to meet new challenges in dynamic environments. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Andrea Rozoto)

    Gunfighters Conduct Integrated Combat Turns in the Pacific

    While Gunfighters are no stranger to the rapid rearming and refueling of an F-15E Strike Eagle in areas such as U.S. Central Command and the continental United States, it’s important these techniques are tested in new environments like the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
  • Servicemembers from the 644th Combat Communications Squadron, Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, set up network satellite communications through a Ground Antenna Transmit and Receive at Tinian International Airport, Tinian, during Pacific Iron 2021, July 26, 2021. Pacific Iron 2021 is a Pacific Air Forces dynamic force employment operation to project forces into USINDOPACOM’s area of responsibility in support of the 2018 National Defense Strategy which called on the military to be a more lethal, adaptive, and resilient force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Benjamin Sutton)

    Multi-capable joint communications team connects for PACIRON 21

    Airmen from the 673rd Communications Squadron, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, and the 644th Combat Communications Squadron, Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, are showing what it means to be multi-capable while deployed supporting Operation Pacific Iron 2021.
  • A U.S. Air Force F-15C Eagle flies over Kadena Air Base, Japan, during Pacific Iron, July 26, 2021. Pacific Iron is a U.S. Pacific Air Forces dynamic force employment operation to project forces into the USINDOPACOM’s area of responsibility in support of the 2018 National Defense Strategy which called on the military to be a more lethal, adaptive, and resilient force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Moses Taylor)

    Pacific Iron 2021: A Fast, Flexible Force

    U.S. Air Force service members from the Pacific Air Forces participated in Operation Pacific Iron, a PACAF dynamic force employment operation taking place in July 2021. Kadena Air Base, home of the 18th Wing, was an indispensable asset in the operation, providing communications throughout PACAF via the Command and Control operation center.

  • U.S. Indo-Pacific Command will conduct Large Scale Global Exercise 21

    CAMP SMITH, Hawaii – U.S. Indo-Pacific Command will conduct Large Scale Global Exercise 21 (LSGE21)
  • A crew comprised of U.S. Army parachute riggers with Group Support Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), 82nd Airborne Division, and a parachute rigger assigned to U.S. Navy Special Warfare Command built and apparatus at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, to deliver medical supplies to an injured service member aboard a vessel out at sea, July 25, 2021. The parachute riggers are currently supporting exercise Forager 21, which is a U.S. Army Pacific exercise designed to exercise Joint-integrated operations just like this rescue mission was.

    All hands on deck; Soldier rescued from Pacific Ocean

    Rain is pouring down on and around the island of Guam after a monsoon hits early Sunday morning, July 26, 2021. For those in nearby waters, waves are crashing all around them. In the midst of all the commotion, a U.S. Army Soldier on an Army Watercraft System off the coast of Angaur, Palau, requires urgent medical attention and the Army medical team makes a call to Andersen AFB for assistance.
  • You, Me and AFE

    You, Me and AFE

    Minot Air Force Base Aircrew members from the 5th Bomb Wing and 69th Bomb Squadron prep for flight
  • Bomber Task Force Guam

    Bomber Task Force Guam

    B-52H Stratofortresses, assigned to the 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, go through preparations

  • Airmen arrive on Tinian for Pacific Iron 21

    U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 366th Fighter Wing from Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, arrive on Tinian July 27, 2021, to conduct Pacific Iron 2021.
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