Story by Staff Sgt. Codie Trimble | 388th Fighter Wing | 04.27.2021
Pilots and maintainers from the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, enhanced their deployed agility with the F-35A Lightning II during an exercise here last week....
Story by Paul Cage | U.S. Naval Research Laboratory | 09.23.2020
Naval Research Laboratory Remote Sensing Division scientists continue to study the data pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) plumes generated during brush fires that ravaged southeastern Australia between Dec. 29, 2019 and Jan. 4, 2020....
Story by Lt. Col. Timothy Wade | 380th Air Expeditionary Wing | 07.30.2020
The 421st Fighter Squadron did something in early July which had never been done before by an F-35A Lightning II unit- go into alert status....
Story by Staff Sgt. Devin Boyer | 86th Airlift Wing | 07.09.2020
The 721st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron facilitated a maintenance recovery team (MRT) from the 305th Maintenance Squadron, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, to remove and replace components of a C-17 Globemaster III belonging to Charleston Air Force Base, July 7....
Story by Senior Airman Danielle Charmichael | 2D Audiovisual Squadron | 03.06.2020
The knowledge and skills required to maintain the F-35A Lightning II from nose to tail spans six Air Force Specialty Codes and involves proficiency in over 700 tasks. One group of Airmen at the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill Air Force Base, Utah are capable of all of it....
Story by Karen Singer | U.S. Strategic Command | 01.23.2020
U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) commenced Exercise Global Lightning 2020 today, an annual command post and battle staff exercise designed to train Department of Defense forces and assess joint operational readiness across all of USSTRATCOM's mission areas....
Story by Cassandra Eichner | U.S. Naval Research Laboratory | 01.14.2020
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory advanced their ongoing work to understand and predict formation of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds in 2019, collected the most detailed sampling of the clouds in history....
Story by Tech. Sgt. Staci Kasischke | United States Air Forces Central | 08.12.2019
Directly aligned with the 2018 National Defense Strategy’s call to be strategically predictable but operationally unpredictable, F-35A Lightning IIs from the 4th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron participated in Exercise Agile Lightning, Aug. 4-7, 2019....
