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  • JSTARS reassures mission partners

    The JSTARS aircraft, deployed to Ramstein Air Base, Germany from the Georgia Air National Guard’s 116th Air Control Wing at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, provides an airborne battle management, command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform.

  • Strengthening alliances through joint NATO training

    Pararescuemen assigned to the 57th Rescue Squadron and HH-60G Pave Hawks and crew assigned to the 56th RQS, both from Aviano Air Base, Italy, alongside Royal Marines Commando Mobile Air Operations team with Commando Helicopter Force performed joint NATO training with the 53rd Commando Battalion

  • 409th AEG host bazaar, stimulates local economy

    Airmen at Air Base 201 got a little shopping therapy recently! Over 40 local vendors from the city of Agadez and surrounding villages attended a bazaar at AB201. U.S. service members purchased approximately 10,532,000 West African CFA francs ($18K USD) worth of various goods, stimulating the local

  • U.S. air advisors strengthen Nigerien defense capabilities

    Thirty-two Niger Armed Forces (French language: Forces Armées Nigeriennes) soldiers graduated from a tactical field training course facilitated by 409th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron (ESFS) air advisors at Nigerien Air Base 201, Niger, March 10, 2022.During the eight-week course, the 409th

  • Airman makes debut as Winter Olympian, has sights set for 2026

    Imagine being the first black athlete to compete in a sport where you are hurling yourself headfirst down an icy track at speeds over 90 mph. That is exactly what Airman First Class Kelly Curtis did recently as she competed in the skeleton at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.