Story by Senior Airman Taylor Hunter | Pacific Air Forces | 09.22.2021
Sunset-21, a Bomber Task Force mission, came to a close at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam Oct 1, 2021, after playing a role in integrating Pacific Air Forces with international partners. More than 200 members from reserve, guard and active duty units at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana participated in the exercise....
Story by Senior Airman Taylor Hunter | Pacific Air Forces | 09.20.2021
Andersen Air Force Base, Guam – As a group of more than 200 Airmen landed at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, and began set-up for a Bomber Task Force mission, one Air Force captain arrived with eyes wide open and ready to grow with her unit....
Story by Airman 1st Class Jacob Wrightsman | 2nd Bomb Wing | 03.19.2021
Airmen from the 2nd Bomb Wing loaded and employed nearly 50 types of various munitions and flew a total of eight sorties in support of exercise Combat Hammer, March 8-12. A week-long evaluation of the wing’s capacity to generate, load and employ conventional weapons on target, Combat Hammer measured the effectiveness and lethality of Barksdale’s combat capabilities....
Courtesy Story | U.S. Central Command Public Affairs | 12.10.2020
A pair of U.S. Air Force B-52H “Stratofortresses” assigned to the Barksdale Air Force Base-headquartered 2nd Bomb Wing operated in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility with other U.S. Air Force and regional partner aircraft in the second mission in as many months....
Story by Tech. Sgt. Angela Ruiz | Air Forces Southern | 11.23.2020
Two U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress aircraft participated in “Brother’s Shield” a Colombian Air Force lead exercise and in “UNITAS LXI” an Ecuadorian Navy lead exercise in the U.S. Southern Command’s Area of Responsibility Nov 8, 2020....
Courtesy Story | U.S. Central Command Public Affairs | 11.21.2020
U.S. Air Force B-52H “Stratofortress” aircrews assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing, Minot Air Force Base, N.D., conducted a short-notice, long-range mission into the Middle East on Nov. 21 to deter aggression and reassure U.S. partners and allies....
Story by Giancarlo Casem | 412th Test Wing | 08.08.2020
The Air Force took another step towards fielding a hypersonic weapon following its final captive-carry test of the AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon under a wing of a B-52 Stratofortress off the Southern California coast, Aug 8....
Story by Staff Sgt. Jerilyn Quintanilla | Pacific Air Forces | 03.28.2019
U.S. Airmen assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, participate in Diamond Shield 2019 at Royal Australian Air Force Base Darwin, Australia, March 18, 2019. More than 80 Airmen and two B-52 Stratofortresses assigned to the 23rd Expeditionary Bomber Squadron and 5th Maintenance Group traveled from their deployed location at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, to......
