The Warrior Games were established in 2010 as a way to enhance the recovery and rehabilitation of wounded, ill and injured service members and expose them to adaptive sports. The 2019 DoD Warrior Games are comprised of more than 300 service member and veteran athletes representing the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Special Operations Command, and five partner nations.
The U.S. Air Force Special Warfare Training Wing at JBSA and San Antonio Sports hosted local high school JROTC cadets to test their teamwork and physical capabilities against each other in a challenging and fun-filled competition.
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...
Tempest Express is a France-hosted and U.S.-cosponsored multinational workshop designed to prepare French Armed Forces New Caledonia (FANC) and Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT) partner-nation defense personnel for multinational missions to include; Humanitarian Assistance-Disaster Relief (HADR) Operations, Peace Enforcement Operations (PEO), Pandemic Response Operations,...
The ongoing humanitarian and border security crisis on the southwest border has stretched CBP resources and processing facilities to the breaking point. Establishing temporary facilities will support CBP efforts to process, care for and transfer the unprecedented number of families and unaccompanied children crossing the border illegally each day in a humane way, consistent with our border...
The deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System to Israel is an exercise involving U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force and Israeli forces, under the Dynamic Force Employment concept. The exercise builds readiness and interoperability in the region, demonstrates the U.S. capability to rapidly deploy air defense assets globally, and demonstrates U.S. Army Europe's mission to deter potential...
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The European Reassurance Initiative (ERI) is designed to develop and maintain U.S. military participation in exercises designed to strengthen alliances with NATO nations and contribute to the security of Eastern Europe. The Texas Air National Guard, in support of the ERI, will deploy to Lielvarde, Latvia.
