JOINT BASE LEWIS McCHORD, Wash. (AFNS) --  Members of the 62nd Airlift Wing recently  said their goodbyes to friends and families before deploying in support of U.S. Central Command, U.S. European Command, and U.S. Africa Command operations. This deployment is JB Lewis McChord’s first implementation of the new Mobility Air Force ‘Force Generation’ model.

WASHINGTON – Brigade commanders no longer have the luxury of time as they face the gauntlets that are combat training center rotations.

To succeed, commanders will have to see outside their immediate area and drive their units to accomplish missions on a division or corps timeline.

Brig. Gen. Curtis Taylor, commander of the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, laid out a recent scenario during a panel on making realistic,

relevant training for large-scale combat here at the annual Association of the U.S. Army Meeting and Exposition.

The Air Force’s top enlisted leader recently rolled out the service’s first “Purple Book,” a primer on the joint force for rank-and-file airmen.

The 39-page booklet introduces airmen to high-level policy like the National Defense Strategy and describes the Air Force’s place in the bigger military picture. It’s one piece in a slew of changes aimed at better educating enlisted airmen and holding them to higher standards of performance.

“We have the first service and the only service who has a book to help us become a better joint-minded service member,” Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force JoAnne Bass said at the annual Air and Space Forces Association conference.

American mobile rocket systems are making the rounds in Europe on a tour stretching from the Arctic to the Baltics and beyond as the Army shows off a star of its arsenal that has garnered attention as a godsend to Ukraine.

The High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, known as HIMARS, was firing recently in Sweden’s High North on a short-notice mission that began hours earlier with troops taking flight aboard a special operations C-130 flying out of Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

“It provides us an opportunity to showcase a weapons system that right now there’s a lot of interest in across our allies and partners,” Army Maj. Gen. Stephen Maranian, commander of the Wiesbaden, Germany-based 56th Artillery Command, said.

A CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft belonging to the U.S. Air Force has been stranded at a Norwegian nature preserve after recently suffering a mechanical failure in flight, the head of Air Force Special Operations Command confirmed….

During her 37 years in the Coast Guard, Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan has sometimes questioned service traditions. Why, for example, should most officers have to move to a new post every two to four years to help advance their careers?

The Senate recently officially confirmed Lt. Gen. Michael Langley as the nation’s first Black four-star Marine general.

Langley, who will now lead U.S. troops in Africa as the commander of…

This past month, the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush relieved the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman in the Ionian Sea, after the the two flattops conducted dual operations in the Mediterranean….

Army Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Patrick Brady, a Medal of Honor recipient who turns 86 in October, until recently had never before jumped out of an airplane.

Three of his children have done airplane jumps — two of his daughters as sports…

Master Chief James Honea recently became the Navy’s 16th chief petty officer of the Navy during a ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

Honea, a sailor for 35 years, most recently served as the senior enlisted leader for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and was described by Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday as having “saltwater running through his veins,” according to a video recording of the ceremony posted online.