Story by Staff Sgt. Jacob Hancock | 125th Fighter Wing | 08.21.2025
The 500th F-35A Lightning II built for the U.S. Air Force arrived at the Florida Air National Guard’s 125th Fighter Wing, located at Jacksonville Air National Guard Base, Florida, on July 9, 2025. This jet is one of the unit’s first three permanently assigned F-35A fighter jets featuring the wing’s legacy tail flash and continues the unit's multi-year transition from the F-15C/D Eagles....
Story by Senior Airman Camille Lienau | 104th Fighter Wing | 02.01.2024
Twenty one Airmen from the 104th Fighter Wing were selected for a two year core cadre program as part of the Wing’s conversion from the F-15 Eagle to the F-35A Lightning II....
Story by Master Sgt. Caila Arahood | 165th Airlift Wing | 01.22.2024
The 165th Airlift Wing (AW), Georgia Air National Guard, received the first of its eight C-130J-30 Super Hercules, tail number 5975, tactical airlift aircraft during a ceremony January 22 commemorating a new era in Hercules operations for the wing....
Story by Lance Cpl. Symira Bostic | Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point | 01.25.2022
Changes are underway for Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point’s habitats. The Environmental Affairs Department (EAD) converted old fire lines and food plots into new usable ones at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point, North Carolina, Jan. 25, 2022. The conversion is intended to reestablish and enhance the wildlife habitat and to further provide recreation for MCAS Cherry Point personnel....
Story by Master Sgt. Ryan Campbell | 158th Fighter Wing | 12.17.2021
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt., (Dec. 17, 2021) – New Years 2022 will be welcomed with the 158th Fighter Wing of the Vermont Air National Guard exiting a three year conversion process to be a fully operational F-35A Lightning II wing. 2021 wouldn’t come to an end however, before embarking on their largest training exercise yet with the F-35. An exercise that would test their ability to move......
Courtesy Story | 145th Airlift Wing, North Carolina Air National Guard | 10.13.2020
10/13/2020 – Charlotte, N.C. – Three years ago the 145th Airlift Wing embarked on a journey, the likes of which the Charlotte base had not seen in over forty years. In October of 2017, the unit started the process of conversion, moving from the C-130 Hercules, to the C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, a process that formally concluded on October 1st, 2020....
Story by Staff Sgt. Neysa Canfield | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 01.31.2020
FORT CARSON, Colorado - In September 2018, the U.S. Army announced the 4th Infantry Division’s 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team would convert from a light infantry brigade to a Stryker brigade, starting in 2020....
Story by Staff Sgt. Kris Bonet | 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division | 08.28.2019
FORT BLISS, Texas – Soldiers with 6th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, received their first M1A2 SEP V2 Abrams Main Battle Tanks August 21. Fourteen tanks arrived as part of the 1st ABCT conversion from a Stryker brigade to the Army’s sixteenth armored brigade combat team June 20. Ready First Brigade was chosen based on a......
