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  • F-22s arrive in Tinian during REFORPAC

    U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors assigned to the 3rd Air Expeditionary Wing conduct aerial maneuvers during exercise Resolute Force Pacific 2025 in Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands, July 17, 2025.

  • JBER Airmen prepare for exercise REFORPAC

    U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to 3rd Maintenance Squadron, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, process through a personnel deployment function line to support exercise Resolute Force Pacific 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 11, 2025. REFORPACThis exercise is designed

  • Hungry Hungry Halibut exercise sharpens air warfighting skills

    Hungry Hungry Halibut, a high-end integration air war exercise, took place on Aug. 1 and 2, 2024, providing unique opportunities to integrate various forces into multilateral training from simulated forward operating bases throughout Alaska.The 477th Fighter Group, the Air Force Reserve unit in

  • Mission Generation Competition – Evolving for the Future

    On July 12, 2024, spectators witnessed Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson’s first live regeneration-style competition. Ammo crews prepared world-class munitions, crew chiefs quick-turned four F-22 raptors, and four weapons load crews threw down in a head-to-head weapons load competition.The Mission

  • Red Flag-Alaska 24-2 begins enhancing joint, combined interoperability

    Red Flag-Alaska 24-2, a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored exercise, is scheduled to begin May 30, with primary flight operations over the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex and is scheduled to run through June 14. Red Flag-Alaska is designed to provide realistic training in a simulated combat

  • Agile Reaper 24-1 ends with historic firsts

    Exercise scenarios for Agile Reaper 24-1 formally ended at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, April 16, 2024, after operating in the Pacific theater with four spokes connected to the 3rd Air Expeditionary Wing, making it the largest, most combat-representative wing-led exercise of its time.

  • Forging Excellence: William Tell – Tuskegee Now and Then

    After a nearly 20-year hiatus, the U.S. Air Force’s most famous air combat competition, William Tell, returned September 11-15, 2023, in Savannah, Georgia.A special member was in attendance this year, a member of the historical 332nd Fighter Group, the Tuskegee Airmen, Lt. Col. James Harvey III. The

  • 477th Fighter Group Hosts IRR Muster

    The 477th Fighter Group hosted an Individual Ready Reserve muster August 4, 2023, for Air Force IRR members. If a servicemember decides to hang-up their uniform when separating from the Air Force but have not completed their initial 8-year service commitment, they complete that remaining time in the

  • 302d Fighter Squadron F-22 Raptor unit led Northern Edge 23-1

    This year the role of lead F-22 Raptor unit for the Northern Edge 23-1 went to the 302d Fighter Squadron, the Air Force Reserve F-22 squadron, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. The 302d Fighter Squadron is part of the 477th Fighter Group and has a long history of air dominance to include