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  • Airmen, F-16s arrive in Colombia for bilateral engagement

    Airmen from the South Carolina Air National Guard landed in Rionegro, Colombia, near the city of Medellin over the weekend to participate in a bilateral engagement with airmen from the Colombian air force.One hundred Airmen and six F-16s will participate in the combined air operation engagement,

  • Guatemalan air force gleans medical knowledge from U.S. Airmen

    Airmen helped one of its partner nations gain a greater understanding of the importance of military readiness by taking part in a medical subject matter expert exchange event. During a weeklong event the Airmen shared proven flight medicine standardization practices with members of the Guatemalan

  • U.S., 16 Nations conducting PANAMAX 2014 exercise

    PANAMAX 2014, an annual U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM)-sponsored multinational exercise focused on ensuring the defense of the Panama Canal, will take place Aug. 8-14 at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas.USSOUTHCOM and Marine Corps Forces South personnel, headquartered in Miami, as well as personnel

  • State Partnership Program gateway to relationships in AFSOUTH

    This week, Airmen from the Arkansas Air National Guard are working alongside their Guatemalan air force counterparts as part of the National Guard State Partnership Program.The SPP pairs individual state's National Guard bureaus with partner nations in order to support contingency planning and to

  • Airmen arrive in Guatemala to share knowledge with partner nation physicians

    Six Airmen are spending this week in Guatemala to facilitate a subject matter expert exchange with the Guatemalan air force focusing on preventative health, individual readiness and aerospace medicine.Four Airmen from the Arkansas Air National Guard and two from 12th Air Force (Air Forces Southern)

  • Dyess C-130Js successfully evade F-16

    Two 317th Airlift Group C-130J Super Hercules successfully employed air-to-air tactics against an F-16 Fighting Falcon during a training exercise July 23, 2014, en route to Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas.This exercise demonstrated the C-130J capabilities that will be used

  • Gunfighters participate in RIMPAC, forge partnerships across the globe

    The Rim of the Pacific biennial maritime security exercise is a multinational training opportunity taking place in and around the Hawaiian Islands.This year's RIMPAC exercise, the 24th in the series beginning in 1971, started June 26 and is scheduled to end August 1. Multiple units are taking part

  • AFSOUTH maintainers return from MTT in Belize

    Ten Belize Defence Force Air Wing maintainers were given the tools to increase their aircraft fleets capability, thanks to the help of two Air Forces Southern Airmen.Master Sgts. Noel Mendoza and Jeremy Jacobs, Aircraft Managers assigned to12th Air Force (Air Forces Southern), recently returned from