Ms. Gina Ortiz Jones is the Under Secretary of the Air Force. She is responsible for the affairs of the Department of the Air Force, comprised of the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force, to include organizing, training, and equipping Air and Space Forces and for the welfare of approximately 697,000 active duty, Guard, Reserve and civilian Airmen and Guardians and their families worldwide....
Shurer was awarded the Medal of Honor on October 1, 2018, for his actions as a Green Beret medic with 3rd Special Forces Group during the Battle of Shok Valley in northeastern Afghanistan on April 6, 2008. Shurer was part of a team sent to capture or kill several high-value members of the Hezeb Islami al Gulbadin militant group. He passed away May 14, 2020, at the age of 41.
WHEELER-SACK AAF, N.Y. – U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Justin Brye, an AH-64D Apache helicopter pilot assigned to Alpha Troop, 6th Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, has progressed from fixing ghost grey colored helicopters in the United States Marine Corps to currently flying olive drab green gunships in the United States Army...
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Defense Department support to the funeral in honor of General Colin Powell. For more information, please contact the Military District of Washington, Public Affairs Office at (703) 835-6561.
VANCE AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. – While Team Vance may best be known for training student pilots, an Airman in a flight suit is rarely the first person a civilian meets when they enter the base for the first time.
The job of meeting, greeting and vetting these visitors falls on the shoulders of the Airmen in the 71st Security Forces Squadron, commonly known as Defenders.
They are...
The U.S. Army Best Warrior Competition is the pre-eminent path to earning the right to be called the best. It serves as the definitive measure of the Army’s number one priority – readiness. Those who have embarked on this path sought to overcome the deafening principles of fear, fatigue, mental exhaustion, uncertainty and a host of attributes that would otherwise prevent success on the...
In the engineering world, civil works, military construction and emergency management are vitally important. In Dallas, the dedicated professionals who support and guide these programs and projects are members of an elite group known as the Pacesetters. These are their stories...
