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The 136th Airlift Wing (136 AW) reached 200,000 mishap-free flying hours, Oct. 21, 2022, achieving a historic milestone on a journey that began June 6, 1965.

3500 HOURS 22 AS, Travis AFB, CA TSgt Robin OggTSgt Kevin RobinsonTSgt Kierre VanceSSgt Anthony Green 164 AW, Memphis ANGB, TN Lt Col Nicholas PoeMaj…

So, you have finished investigating the event, you have determined what happened and why it happened, and you have ideas for recommendations. Now it is time to write the report. DAFI 91-204, Safety Investigations and Reports, contains over seven pages of requirements (paragraphs 8.5. – 8.10.) to provide support.

Col Michele Lo Bianco, former 305th Operations Group Commander, answers questions from a young girl inside the cockpit of a C-17 Globemaster III at the 305th Air Mobility Wing’s Women’s History Month event, March 26, 2022, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ.

As we head into the holiday season and prepare to wrap up the year, I want to take a moment to express my gratitude to the Total Force team of Mobility Airmen across the globe. Throughout 2022, you have projected, connected, and sustained the joint force every day, in every corner of the globe. I could not be prouder of the work this team has accomplished.

On August 13, the safety enterprise commemorated one year under the leadership of Maj Gen Jeannie Leavitt, Department of the Air Force Chief of Safety and Commander of the Air Force Safety Center.

Have you ever stopped and wondered about the reasoning behind some of our procedures? Going through initial qualification training as a new student, our mentality is like a Nike commercial: “Just Do It.” We read the procedures, our instructor demonstrates how to perform those procedures, and we spend hours in training devices learning those procedures through memorization and repetition.

In the spring of 2022, a nationwide baby formula shortage impacted millions of American families. In response, the Biden Administration initiated “Operation Fly Formula,” in which the U.S. Air Force transported large quantities of baby formula to the United States from overseas.

Making the go/no-go decision to continue a takeoff or reject it is not new. With the advent of jet engine technology for transport aircraft in the 1950s, more crews were faced with the decision to either continue or reject a takeoff more often than in previous aircraft types. Crews continue to face the same go/ no-go decision points; however, with the reliability of aircraft, it is not often that crews reject a takeoff, especially in the latter part of the takeoff where the decision is most crucial. Although crews routinely train for these scenarios, it is crucial to emphasize the importance of making the decision and rapidly transitioning the aircraft to stop.

America’s strength is not only in its ability to protect its own people but also in its ability to preserve global peace. Since the 1960s, the U.S. Air Force and Air Mobility Command (AMC) have upheld this ideal, supporting United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations in some of the most beleaguered parts of the world and assisting military personnel and civilians alike. Across the history of peacekeeping operations in which the Air Force has participated, three major ones stand out: the Republic of the Congo, the Republic of Haiti, and Darfur in western Sudan.

On May 5–6, 2022, Airmen from the 22d Air Refueling Wing, McConnell Air Force Base, KS, completed one of Air Mobility Command’s (AMC) longest duration refueling flights in history: a 24.2-hour flight on one of the Air Force’s newest tankers—the KC-46 Pegasus. The flight, which spanned more than 9,000 miles (along both U.S. coasts), demonstrated the impressive capabilities of the mighty aircraft.

SSgt Shanelle Newman, the first African American female Grey Beret and now a Combat Weather Parachutist, was hesitant to go airborne during the early part of her Air Force career. That hesitancy quickly subsided once she learned of Operation Christmas Drop. Getting to “play Santa” would quickly become an incredibly rewarding experience.