Story by Staff Sgt. Michael Smith | Pacific Air Forces | 03.16.2017
When a situation takes place on the other side of the planet and you need emergency assistance, there’s one organization always ready to deploy at a moment’s notice… Air Combat Command’s 820th Base Defense Group. They are the Air Force’s only unit that contains global response squadrons, and did just that as they participated in first Pacific Air Forces joint and bilateral......
Story by Staff Sgt. Michael Smith | Pacific Air Forces | 03.16.2017
Coming together and forming a successful team within your unit can be a difficult task to complete; doing this with other nations, services and squadrons can be an even tougher hurdle to get over. However, it became a necessity for the members of the first ever combined multinational security forces field training exercise within Cope North 2017....
Story by Senior Airman John Linzmeier | 18th Wing | 03.13.2017
Airmen and aircraft from Kadena's 67th Fighter Squadron, 909th Air Refueling Squadron, 961st Airborne Air Control Squadron, and 18th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron returned to Kadena after participating in the 88th iteration of Exercise Cope North. The exercise was held at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam....
Story by Cpl. Nathan Wicks | Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni | 02.07.2017
U.S. Navy sailors with Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 135 performed maintenance on E/A-18G Growlers at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, to support exercise Cope North, which is scheduled for Feb. 8 – March 8, 2017....
Courtesy Story | Pacific Air Forces | 02.06.2017
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii--The United States and two ally nations in the Indo-Asia Pacific region are scheduled to participate in exercise COPE NORTH 2017 at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Feb. 15 through March 3, 2017....
