American and Afghan forces were briefing each other at a forward operating base on March 11, 2013, about that day’s mission when machine gun rounds suddenly rained down on them.
The group immediately looked to see where the shots were coming from. The lone airman in the group, then-Tech. Sgt. Delorean Sheridan, identified the source of the shots, which turned out to be coming from a truck in the base’s motor pool.
“Initially, everyone starts to look to see what’s going on,” Sheridan, a combat controller, later told Stars and Stripes.
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An Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber flew overhead as Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday met with President Donald Trump on a U.S. Air Force flightline in Alaska.
The stealth bomber, used for some of the most high-profile U.S. strikes in the Middle East this year, flew over Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson flanked by four F-35 fighter jets. On the ground, Putin and Trump met on the tarmac for a major summit to discuss the war in Ukraine, currently in its fourth year. The bomber was one of two B-2s sent to Alaska this week ahead of the summit.
This is part two of a three-part series examining how the Air Force is experimenting with artificial intelligence for its DAF Battle Network capability. It is based on several exclusive interviews with the 805th Combat Training Squadron, the Advanced Battle Management System Cross Functional Team, airmen and members of industry. Part one can be found here.
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The Pentagon’s new Permanent Change of Station Joint Task Force hosted an industry day this week with movers, shippers and capability providers of many types and sizes, where they discussed new ideas to help transform the Defense Department’s system for moving military families’ personal belongings when they’re relocated around the world for new orders or other purposes.
Remember The First Gulf War? Persian Gulf War? Desert Storm and/or Desert Shield? They’re all the same war. Whatever we call it now, it was the war that expelled Iraqi troops from Kuwait, checked a decade of Saddam Hussein’s aggression toward his neighbors, and broke the looming spectre of Vietnam that hung over the U.S. military.
U.S. troops had seen smaller actions before that time, but nothing like the scale and scope of a real “mother of all battles,” pitting Saddam’s Iraq vs. the United States and its UN-mandated coalition partners.
Every time we post a video about drones, radios, satellites, autonomous weapons and anything with a circuit, there are always people in the comments who say something like “Worthless, an EMP will take it out.”
Electromagnetic pulses, or EMPs, have been part of doomsday scenarios for decades. They pop up in television, movies and video games with catastrophic and often unrealistic effects. While EMPs are very real, they’re not the magic wands that can bring an entire country and its military to its knees.
The Air Force has delayed permanent change of station, or PCS, moves for some airmen who were scheduled to relocate within the continental United States, according to an Air Force memo that has been shared on social media.
The Air Force confirmed that the memo is authentic.
Under the changes, airmen expecting to make a routine PCS move between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 within the continental United States but who had not yet received “authenticated orders” for their move now face a delay until at least Jan. 31, the memo says.
As Siaosi Soto approached his final day in the Air Force, he wanted to get one last use out of his military uniform.
So in full ‘dress blues’ — the Air Force’s formal coat-and-tie duty uniform — Soto headed to the beach and got barreled.
“I had it planned right before I started my terminal leave,” Soto told Task & Purpose. “I’ve been bodyboarding for about 16 years so I wanted to do something different for me getting out.
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