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Sept. 9, 2025
Operation Warm Heart: Helping Airmen through difficult times

In August 2024, one Airman’s life was forever changed when her sister passed away. The tragedy was unexpected and sudden for Staff Sgt. Kai Stewart, 821st Contingency Response Support Squadron emergency services technician, and throughout this hardship, Stewart was supporting her family. "My world
Sept. 8, 2025
One in a million: Twin sisters serving together at Travis AFB

Family members serving simultaneously in the military is rare, but even more uncommon is two siblings, twins, serving together in the same active-duty branch, with the same rank, at the same base. At Travis Air Force Base, California, this rarity became a reality for Capt. Chloe Forlini and Capt.
July 28, 2025
Air Advisor's expertise solves 2-year aircraft mystery, Belizean counter-narcotics mission soars

An already multi-faceted training mission turned into a critical problem-solving opportunity for 571st Mobility Support Advisory Squadron (MSAS) mobile training team (MTT) who recently deployed to Belize. More than that, it became a showcase for the exceptional technical skills and dedication of one
July 24, 2025
Ballinger assumes command of 621st Contingency Response Wing

Col. Justin Ballinger assumes command of the 621st Contingency Response Wing, July 24, 2025 at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J.
July 24, 2025
621st CRW shows off mobility expertise during DLE

Beginning July 4, more than 185 members with the 621st Contingency Response Wing deployed across the United States and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s area of responsibility to generate support for the 2025 Department of the Air Force’s “first-in-a-generation” Department-Level Exercise (DLE)
July 14, 2025
571st MSAS leads Belize Defence Force in historic airdrop, redefines regional security

Deep in the jungles of Belize, where clandestine airstrips fuel the flow of illicit drugs between South American producers and North American consumers, the strengthened partnership between the U.S. and Belize has reached new heights. In a strategic effort to deny drug cartels the ability to operate
May 9, 2025
621st CRW legal advisor dubbed “Lake Placid”

Everyone needs someone who is calm under pressure and can turn chaos into order, and one such individual is Maj. Matthew Cole, a USAF judge advocate.Judge advocates can decipher a lot of information all at once, digest it and cooly translate it to Airmen and their commanders in a concise format to
Jan. 23, 2025
821st CRG participate in first-ever CR-led LZ Survey Course

Whether it is unprepared, semi-prepared, or paved (prepared), a landing zone survey must be conducted to evaluate the risk of safely using any landing surface for military air-land operations.To conduct an LZ survey, 621st Contingency Response Wing LZ surveyors had to attend a course offered by
Dec. 18, 2024
Celebrating Decade-Long Partnership: 571st MSAS, SFSO lead DoD’s largest urban evasion exercise

While blending in with a populace of more than 808,000 people in San Francisco, 40 personnel, led by U.S. Air Force’s 571st Mobility Support Advisory Squadron attempted to evade capture from the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office in early December during Exercise Sourdough. For the teams captured during
July 24, 2024
Minihan updates Congress on mobility aircraft

Gen. Mike Minihan, Air Mobility Command commander, alongside Lt. Gen. David Tabor, U.S. Air Force deputy chief of staff for plans and programs, and Rear Adm. Derek Trinque, U.S. Transportation Command director of strategic plans, policy and logistics, testified in front of the House Armed Services

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