The 18th Wing mission video highlights the wing's role in delivering airpower and defending the Indo-Pacific as the largest combat wing in the U.S. Air Force. (U.S. Air Force video by Senior Airman Jonathan R. Sifuentes)
U.S. and Australian forces demonstrated their combined focus on cooperation, warfighting effectiveness and lethality in the Indo-Pacific space domain during the Avalon International Airshow and Trade Days, March 25 â 30, 2025.
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska â On May 24, 1969, near the village of Long Sau, A Lonc Province in Vietnam, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. James Leroy Bondsteel, a platoon sergeant assigned to Company A, 2d Battalion, 2d Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, assembled the Soldiers of his platoon into effective combat teams. Company A had been assigned to assist a unit endangered by a North Vietnamese battalion in a well-equipped base camp.
