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  • Defining MCA training for Fairchild’s mission

    A team of six Airmen from Fairchild Air Force Base participated in the 509th Weapons School Integration 23A exercise to test tanker-specific multi-capable airmen training and practice agile combat employment concepts. Fairchild’s MCA program is developing specific MCA tier three training, creating

  • 509th Weapons Squadron supports SOF exercise, prepares for WSINT

    Airmen from the 509th Weapons Squadron integrated with the 14th Weapons Squadron providing air refueling for a special operations forces exercise at Hurlburt Field, Florida, May 7-10. The purpose of the training for the 509th WPS was to expose its students to the Special Operations mission set and

  • 18th AF commander Maj. Gen. Corey Martin visits Fairchild AFB

    Maj. Gen. Corey Martin, 18th Air Force commander, visited Fairchild Air Force Base from May 2-4, 2023.Martin’s tour of the base included highlighting the air refueling mission along with meeting Airmen from various career fields to better understand the mission and capability sets of Team Fairchild.

  • Team Fairchild participates in Global Thunder 23

    Airmen from the 92nd Air Refueling Wing, 141st ARW and 6th ARW from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, participated in the U.S. Strategic Command exercise Global Thunder 23 (GT23), April 11-18, 2023 at Fairchild AFB.Global Thunder is an annual command and control and field training exercise designed

  • Spokane, Team Fairchild celebrates local WWII veteran

    Wing leadership from Fairchild Air Force Base and Spokane city officials gathered to recognize retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Stan Bennet, a WWII veteran, for his great achievements during his military service to his country and local community, March 20, at a local Spokane retirement home. Bennet

  • Fairchild innovates survival training

    Members from Team Fairchild’s innovation cell conducted an event to review current foundational survival training methods and their applicability to tropic, jungle, and coastal conditions by taking three groups of members with varying levels of survival training to Hawaii for a simulated isolation

  • 384th ARS Refuels Marine F/A-18 Hornets in Coronet across Pacific

    A U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18C Hornet prepares to be refueled by a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker from Fairchild Air Force Base over the Pacific, March 9, 2023. Aircrew from the 384th Air Refueling Squadron conducted an air refueling coronet with Marines from the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 312,

  • Team Fairchild conducts hot-pit site survey in the Pacific

    Team Fairchild conducted a site survey mission to certify multiple airfields in the Pacific for KC-135 Stratotanker hot-pit refueling, January 2023. “Certifying these sites is important so we can practice distributed logistics and operations,” said Capt. Blake Kidd, 93rd Air Refueling Squadron chief