The 2024 Lesser Antilles Medical Assistance Team (LAMAT) integrates U.S. Air Force active duty and reserve personnel with partner nation medical establishments, offering real-world benefits and assistance to achieve positive outcomes through collaboration. Medical assistance teams will travel to Suriname, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, St. Kitts and Nevis, where patients have been selected in...
We are committed to remaining the world's pre-eminent fighting force, pursuing global security and stability, modernizing the nation's nuclear deterrent and embracing new technologies.
Every June since 2012, the Department of Defense has celebrated LGBT Pride Month. In honor of the celebration, March Air Reserve Base interviewed Marvin Tucker, the base's Installation Emergency Manager, and his husband Joshua Delgado, who were the first same-sex couple to be married at the historic March Air Reserve Base chapel.
The Air Force is pursuing a multi-phase Light Attack Experimentation Campaign which grew out of our Close Air Support Experimentation Campaign. The Air Force Materiel Command’s Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office leads this Campaign.
Air Force personnel are flying participant-provided, experiment-suitable aircraft in scenarios designed to highlight...
The Lighting Challenge is a TACP career field exclusive event. For years it was the annual 1C4/TACP Skills competition hosted by the TACP Schoolhouse out of Hurlburt Field, Florida. Location is Ft Hood, Texas and Reveille Peak Ranch.
Lightning Challenge is an annual competition that that evaluates U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) specialists from across the globe through tests of agile combat employment, physical ability, and marksmanship skill, in order to identify the most outstanding multi-capable Airmen in the world.
Imagery of Lightning Challenge 2022
The Lightning Challenge is an annual service-level TACP competition to identify the best TACP Airmen in the Air Force.
