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Global Reach Combined Test Force supports historic ballistic missile intercept in Guam

A Standard Missile-3 Block IIA is fired from a Vertical Launching System on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam as part of Flight Experiment Mission-02. The Missile Defense Agency, in cooperation with U.S. Department of Defense partners, successfully conducted FEM-02 on December 10, 2024. (courtesy photo/released)
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Global Reach Combined Test Force supports historic ballistic missile intercept in Guam

A Standard Missile-3 Block IIA is fired from a Vertical Launching System on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam as part of Flight Experiment Mission-02. The Missile Defense Agency, in cooperation with U.S. Department of Defense partners, successfully conducted FEM-02 on December 10, 2024. (courtesy photo/released)
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Global Reach Combined Test Force supports historic ballistic missile intercept in Guam

An advanced Medium Range Ballistic Missile is air launched from a C-17 aircraft off the coast of Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, as part of Flight Experiment Mission-02. The Missile Defense Agency, in cooperation with U.S. Department of Defense partners, successfully conducted FEM-02 on Dec. 10, 2024. (courtesy photo/released)
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Global Reach Combined Test Force supports historic ballistic missile intercept in Guam

Edwards Air Force Base C-17 33121 of the 418th FLTS begins its takeoff roll from EDW as Edwards KC-135 10320 awaits its turn. Both aircraft play vital roles in the mission of the 412th Test Wing. (Air Force photo by Todd Schannuth)
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Arnold AFB J-6 team completes 150th run in test facility

Members of the J-6 Rocket Motor Test Cell team at Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn., gather for a photo Oct. 8, 2024, around a month before the 150th test run was completed in the J-6 facility. J-6 is a large altitude test capability for medium to large rocket propulsion systems. Since its construction at Arnold AFB, headquarters of Arnold Engineering Development Complex, J-6 has fulfilled a national need by providing ground test simulations for large solid-propellant rocket motors over a wide range of simulated pressure altitudes and temperature conditions to replicate real-world scenarios. (U.S. Air Force photo by Keith Thornburgh)
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TPS CLASS 24-A GRADUATION

Celebrating the completion of class 24-Alpha from the Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB. This is a combined class of Space Force and Air Force personel. Maj. Gen. Cain and Brig. Gen. Wickert presided over the ceremony, handing out each idividual graduates certificate.
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Brown takes command of Robins C2 test detachment

U.S. Air Force Col. James Fields II, 505th Test and Training Group commander, left, passes the guidon to Lt. Col. Gregory Brown, 505th TTG, Detachment 2 incoming commander, right, at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, Dec. 13, 2024. (Photo cropped to focus on subjects.) (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Lt. Col. Gregory Brown Official Photo

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Gregory Brown, 505th Test and Training Group, Detachment 2 commander at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Edwards’ Test Pilot School welcomes the newest generation of flight test professionals

United States Air Force Test Pilot School, located at Edwards Air Force Base, awarded the prestigious Master of Flight Test Engineering or Graduate Certificate in Space Test Engineering to 32 students during a graduation ceremony for class 24-A on Dec. 7.
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National Museum of the USAF honors volunteers at annual banquet

Volunteers at the National Museum of the US Air Force were recognized for their hours of dedicated service to the museum at the annual Volunteer Appreciation Banquet held April 26 at the museum. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Read Across America 2024

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force supports Read Across America 2024. By promoting reading and encouraging children to read more, Read Across America helps to improve literacy rates in the country. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Combat Support Instructor Course beta test

During the beta testing of the Combat Support Instructor Course at Fort Bliss, Texas, Airmen actively took part in a field training exercise on August 16, 2024. The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center created the innovative Combat Support Instructor Course (CSIC), which was unveiled during the initial 2024 Installation and Mission Support Weapons and Tactics Conferences. These conferences aimed to enhance agile combat support operations in the current era of heightened global competition. (U.S. Air Force photo by Armando Perez)
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AFSC directorates, complexes shine at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024

OSHKOSH, Wi. (July 25, 2024) - Austin D. Beverley, a project manager from the 309th Software Engineering Group, demonstrates how to use an augmented reality headset during the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture Oshkosh airshow in Oshkosh, Wi., July 25. Austin, along with several other civilian Airmen from Ogden Air Logistics Complex in Ogden, Utah to support Air Force Sustainment Center’s exhibit during the week-long event. (U.S. Air Force photo by Michael Tackitt)
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Highest-ranking female civilian Assistant Chief of Fire Prevention in the United States Air Force

Assistant Fire Chief Tiana Bykowski poses in the fire station July 31, 2024, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Bykowski is the highest-ranking female civilian Assistant Chief of Fire Prevention in the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Cynthia Griggs)
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Prescribed burn at the Ogden Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah

Left, Airman 1st Class Marcellous Faustin and Airman Wyatt Todd, 775th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighters, report weather conditions during a prescribed burn at the Ogden Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah, April 12, 2024. The burn addressed an approximately 2,000 acre area of invasive phragmites weeds. Burning is the most thorough, fastest and least costly way to help renew and restore the area for wildlife. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw)
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Installation and Mission Support Weapons and Tactics Conference

Maj. Robin Walton and Senior Master Sgt. Phillip Acord present the Mission Area Working Group 3 briefing about resilience and base recovery after an attacked at Installation and Mission Support Weapons and Tactics Conference 2024.1 May 8 at Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center headquarters, JBSA-Lackland, Texas. This year, the focus of I-WEPTAC presentations was on advancing fielding of capabilities to meet Great Power Competition requirements. Walton is the deputy branch chief for the Air Force Civil Engineer Center Facility Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization Program. Acord is the senior enlisted leader of the AFCEC Civil Engineer Maintenance, Inspection, and Repair Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Craig Z. Rodarte)
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Low-five

Airman 1st Class Joe Trybus and Airman 1st Class Tyler Tenney with the 66th Training Squadron’s survival, evasion, resistance, escape pre-team 25-02, low-five during a four-mile ruck as part of a physical training test at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Oct. 29, 2024. The SERE career field is one of few that require a unique PT test alongside the standard Air Force PT test including pull-ups, push-ups, sit-ups, a two-mile run and a four-mile ruck. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Tiffany Del Oso)
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Dr. Thaddeus (Tadj) Asel focuses on the growth of oxide semiconductor materials such as Gallium Oxide to address the need for smaller and higher power electronics

This lab focuses on the growth of oxide semiconductor materials such as Gallium Oxide to address the need for smaller and higher power electronics. This is done by molecular beam epitaxy where a beams of atomic species are utilized to form the crystalline structure on a crystal lattice matched substrate. The work done in this lab explores and develops these material system to their fullest potential for DAF power electronic needs.
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AFRL 711 HPW researchers use motion capture tech to study mobility, injury risks

Staff Sgt. Alisa Boyle, test participant, wears a full-body suit with marker lights in the Motion Capture Lab, part of the Signature Tracking for Optimized Nutrition and Training, or STRONG, Lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Aug. 20, 2024. Boyle participated in a test as part of the Kinetisense validation project, an effort using cameras and LIDAR to detect movement, ultimately addressing mobility concerns and potential injury risks. The STRONG Lab, part of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing, Human Effectiveness Directorate, is a premier exercise science facility that unites research with the needs of military human performance and operational support teams. (U.S. Air Force photo / Richard Eldridge)
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Dr. Emily Heckman, Principal Electronics Engineer from the Sensors Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, leads a team of engineers and scientists in the development of new products for the warfighter

Dr. Fahima Ouchen, Senior Research Engineer with KBR, prints with silver conductive ink using an nScrypt 3Dn extrusion printer for a flexible electronics application. In the background, Dr. Carrie Bartsch, Senior Electronics Research Engineer with AFRL, supervises a printing experiment with an Optomec Aerosol Jet AJ200 printer.
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