The David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger Competition is a three-day competition that pits the military’s best two-man Ranger teams against each other as they compete for the title of Best Ranger. The 2018 Best Ranger Competition is scheduled to take place at various locations across Fort Benning, Georgia, April 13-15 with an award ceremony April 16.
The F-35 Heritage Flight Team represents the past, present, and future of Airpower in the United States Air Force. Assigned to the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base, The team consists of one pilot and 12 maintainers who seamlessly work together to help maintain the world's most advanced fifth generation fighter aircraft, the F-35 Lightning II. From March to September, the F-35 Heritage...
In Sept. 2017, Secretary of the U.S. Air Force Heather Wilson launched an initiative to update the Air Force's science and technology strategy. Over the course of a year, the Air Force will listen and learn from the scientific community, higher education and business professionals through a series of conversations and outreach events.
Follow our 2030 journey here, and visit...
The 2018 Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow will take place at the Wanaka Airport, Luggate, New Zealand, Mar. 31-Apr. 1, 2018. The biennial event is the largest ‘Warbird’ Airshow in the Southern Hemisphere; this year will mark the 30th anniversary since its inception in 1988. WOW 18 will showcase Pacific Air Force’s F-16 Fighting Falcon Aerial Demonstration Team out of Misawa Air...
The U.S. World War I Centennial Commission (www.worldwar1centennial.org), created by an Act of Congress in 2013, is the lead organizer for the thousand’s involved with the Nation’s commemorative events as they tell the story of the Great War. The Commission’s mission is to raise awareness and give meaning to the events 100 years ago using educational experiences and programming for all...
2018 is NORAD's 60th anniversary. Communication efforts will be undertaken per the PA plan in support of NORAD 60 culminating in events in Colorado Springs and Winnipeg in May 2018.
The annual Fort Bragg Combatives Tournament is currently the largest in the U.S. Army and takes place from February 28 to March 3, 2018. The tournament is an open invitational for all service members in the Department of Defense. This year’s tournament will have nearly 300 competitors representing the Active Army, Reserve and National Guard, as well as service members from the U.S. Marine...
On February 24, 1918, the Estonian Salvation Committee proclaimed Estonia
to be an independent democratic republic in the ‘Manifesto to the Peoples
of Estonia.’ This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Republic of
Estonia. During the national anniversary week, key events celebrating the
independence of Estonia will take place all over the country. On February
24, 2018, the...
