Story by Master Sgt. Nicholas Carzis | CONR-1AF (AFNORTH and AFSPACE) | 08.22.2023
2023 marks the Semicentennial anniversary recognizing the heritage of the steadfast partnership between the Department of Defense and the U.S. Forest Service. For 50 years, the MAFFS program has aided with the extinguishing of some of the United States' most deadly wildfires in the nation's history. Presently at Klamath Falls Airtanker Base, MAFFS personnel are bracing for another busy season......
Story by Lt. Col. Karen Roganov | CONR-1AF (AFNORTH and AFSPACE) | 06.08.2022
Students taking the Basic Inland Search and Rescue course developed and taught by members of the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center (AFRCC), First Air Force, Air Forces Northern located at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., gathered at the Gulf Coast State College (CGSC), Bay County Emergency Management Center (BCEMC), Southport, Fla., to learn new skills May 26-27....
Story by Senior Airman Michelle Brooks | 152nd Airlift Wing | 05.08.2022
I had the opportunity to interview Lisa Allen, a lead plane pilot with the Bureau of Land Management’s National Aviation Office, about the role of a lead plane pilot during wildland fire suppression missions....
Story by Lt. Col. Amos Plante, Civil Air Patrol | CONR-1AF (AFNORTH and AFSPACE) | 09.02.2021
Aircrews and ground teams with First Air Force’s Air Force Auxiliary have joined federal and Louisiana state emergency managers’ efforts to assess Hurricane Ida’s impact. Since Tuesday afternoon, the Civil Air Patrol Louisiana Wing, acting as the official U.S. Air Force Auxiliary, has flown five extensive aerial sorties, photographing areas of severe wind damage and flooding in the......
Story by Maj. Kimberly Burke | Western Air Defense Sector | 07.31.2018
Col. Gregory R. Lewis became the new commander of the Western Air Defense Sector during an assumption of command ceremony at the Washington Army National Guard Readiness Center on Joint Base Lewis-McChord July 31, 2018....
Story by Staff Sgt. Thomas Swanson | 102nd Intelligence Wing | 04.27.2018
OTIS AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mass. – Military aircraft that responded to the attacks over our homeland during the tragic events of September 11, 2001, are being honored at the The Killey Center for Homeland Operations at Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Florida. The facility is headquarters for 1st Air Force (Air Forces Northern) and the Continental U. S. NORAD Region, one of the......
Story by Capt. Korey Fratini | 23rd Wing | 08.31.2017
The Berlin Airlift marked an historical period in U.S. military innovation, the ability to resupply a blockaded city in Germany. As Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc on South Texas, the storm left areas of Texas flooded and completely unreachable by land. Airmen from 71st Rescue Squadron and 23d Logistics Readiness Squadron conducting forward area refueling point operations were the life blood......
Story by Staff Sgt. David Carbajal | Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst | 11.09.2012
Air Forces Northern deployed an element here, Nov. 2, to the heart of military hurricane-support efforts in New York and New Jersey....
