Vigilant Guard is a series of federally funded functional exercises conducted by National Guard units working with federal, state and local emergency management agencies and first responders.
The 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade deploys, on order, worldwide to find, fix and destroy enemy forces using aerial fire and maneuver to concentrate and sustain combat power.
Operation Toy Drop (OTD) EUCOM will be 06 - 11 December 2015. OTD is hosted by the 5th Quartermaster Theater Aerial Delivery Company at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. OTD is an annual joint service and foreign partnership airborne operation that encompasses airborne proficiency, the holiday season and community relations. All donated toys collected during the operation are for the children of...
The 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Capabilities Exercise is designed to educate representatives from the Department of Defense and Joint Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational (JIIM) organizations on U.S. Army and CBRNE tactical operations in contingency environments.
Luke Air Force Base will host Forging Sabre, an exercise involving the 425th Fighter Squadron and members of the Republic of Singapore armed forces. The exercise includes night and weekend flying operations at Luke AFB and the Barry M. Goldwater Range complex.
Advanced Integration is the graduation exercise for the U.S. Air Force Weapons School which takes place twice a year. It involves the planning and execution of every aspect of air and space combat operations with units converging over the Nevada Test and Training Range for a wide variety of missions.
U.S.Lt. Col. George Mattar, a Citadel alumni and former Joint Communications Support Element (JCSE) commander, was killed on Jan. 13, 1982 when his flight, Florida Airlines No. 90, crashed into the waters of the Potomac River. Aboard this flight were 74 passengers, of which only six survived. Also killed were Maj. Ralph Herman, JCSE's Chief of Operations, and Sergeant Major James Dixon. In...
U.S. Soldiers with the Texas Army National Guard, in conjunction with the U.S. Air Force, conducted a simulated airfield seizure operation.
