Around the Air Force is a look at current events that effect Airmen around the globe.
Several hundred personnel from the Gloucester-based headquarters of the NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) and its supporting units are scheduled to deploy to the Baltic Region in October and November 2015 to conduct the exercise ARRCADE FUSION 15. AF15 is the unit’s annual command post exercise which has been conducted nearly every year since the ARRC’s formation in 1992. This year,...
The U.S. Navy, France's Marine Nationale and the United Kingdom's Royal Navy are participating in the mine countermeasures exercise Artemis Trident in the Arabian Gulf. The exercise enhances cooperation, mutual mine countermeasure capabilities and interoperability, demonstrating the nations' shared commitment to the region. Mine laying poses a risk to naval ships as well as merchant shipping...
B-roll and photos. Artesia Temporary Facility for Adults with Children is located on the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) campus in Artesia, New Mexico. This facility is one of several that increase DHS capacity to hold and expedite the removal of the increasing number of adults with children illegally crossing the southwest border.
Asia-Pacific Intelligence Chiefs Conference (APICC) a high-level conference which is part of a whole of government approach that directly supports the US government’s focus towards the Pacific. APICC is the USPACOM J2’s capstone international engagement event co-hosted by a rotating partner in the Indo-Asia-Pacific, and includes Directors of Military Intelligence (general officers and...
A&S is a character-based selection process that is indexed off character, physical
performance and mental fortitude, designed to prepare future operators for uncertainty,
to embrace pressure and improve their crisis management abilities.
Air Forces (AAAF) is focused on the exchange of experiences and examining opportunities to cooperate and collaborate in order to improve and support air operations across Africa. The AAAF and its events provide the opportunity to engage multilaterally to promote accountable-rules-based organizations and institutions. It is a strategic, apolitical, African-led organization facilitated by the...
Astral Knight 2024 (AK24) is U.S. European Command’s capstone Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) exercise focused on incremental development of theater-wide coalition IAMD architecture. The live-fly and combat operations will be focused in Poland & the Baltic states, with possible virtual injects that may occur outside the joint operations area to drive theater-wide considerations for...
