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...
Operation Ironclad is an effort to conduct immediate and lasting action to prevent behaviors causing sexual assault and harassment, suicide and extremism.
Operation People First is a III Corps initiative to create trustworthy and engaged leaders, and build cohesive teams.
America’s Air Force is a community outreach effort to connect Americans with their Airmen and increase public knowledge and understanding of Air Force missions and capabilities through engagements in cities across the nation.
Gen. Stephen W. “Seve” Wilson is Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, Arlington, Va. As Vice Chief, he presides over the Air Staff and serves as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Requirements Oversight Council and Deputy Advisory Working Group. He assists the Chief of Staff with organizing, training, and equipping of 685,000 active-duty, Guard, Reserve and civilian forces serving...
Air Force Combat Controller Tech. Sgt. John A. Chapman was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor August 22, 2018 for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty.”
Chapman is the 19th Airman awarded the Medal of Honor since the Department of the Air Force was established in 1947. He is the first Airman recognized with the medal for...
