Former Soldiers and their families, along with community members and local officials, gathered today at the Whitmire Armory to honor its historic legacy and the citizen-Soldiers who trained within its walls. The occasion marked the dedication of a commemorative plaque recognizing the generations of service members who have passed through the armory since 1961.
NEXUS RISING 25-01 prepares 349 AMW Citizen Airmen to project decisive power in contested environments, strengthening national deterrence in support of the Air Force’s dynamic all-domain combat operations, focusing on joint and multinational interoperability. NEXUS RISING is a multifaceted exercise testing the Wing's ability to perform Agile Combat Support (ACS) taskings and support...
Large Scale Global Exercise 2024 is a Department of Defense exercise coordinated by U.S. European Command in collaboration with all U.S. DoD combatant commands and will incorporate forces from the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Space and Cyber forces. These U.S. forces, operating alongside Allies and partners, will demonstrate joint and multinational military cooperation and shared...
Exercise Cold Response is a Norwegian-led exercise. This exercise is designed to enhance military capabilities, test the U.S. Marine Corps' ability to work alongside NATO allies and partners and adapt to challenging climates while training on offensive and defensive tactical operations. Exercise Cold Response is part of a regularly occurring series of exercises in northern Europe where the...
The 445th Aeromedical Staging Squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, in coordination with the 944th ASTS from Luke AFB, Arizona, conducted a large-scale joint medical exercise at Wright-Patterson AFB that simulated medical operations post invasion in a contested space June 6-7, 2025.
Exercise SOUTHERN STAR 25 is a Chilean led, full-scale Special Operations, Joint, and Combined Employment Exercise. The multinational exercise is focused on strengthening readiness, capabilities, and interoperability of participating forces. SOUTHERN STAR is sponsored by U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) and executed under the responsibility of Special Operations Command South (SOCSOUTH).
U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 478th Civil Affairs Battalion, and paratroopers assigned to the British 4th Battalion, conduct land and water airborne operations during Lagoon Leap 2025, in Homestead Air Base and a Deliberate Water Jump into Lake Okeechobee Fla., May 14-16th, 2025.
Project Fly Trap is a series of counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) exercises taking place in Hohenfels Training Area, Germany and Bemowo Piskie Training Area, Poland, between the months of June-August, 2025. U.S. and UK soldiers will test new C-UAS capabilities in combined exercises meant to develop and inform the future of anti-drone tactics and technologies. Counter-UAS is one of the...
