Four airm
en deployed for a year to Forward Operating Base Lagman in Afghanistan are maintaining more than 30 Army vehicles, keeping them ready for every mission conducted by the Qalat Provincial Reconstruction Team, reports SSgt. Trevor Tiernan. The airmen are serving in-lieu-of soldiers, but they are serving in their specialties. TSgt. Dave Albanese and SSgt. Joel Bonnett are vehicle mechanics, while TSgt. James Nelson handles logistics and SSgt. Logan Pike works vehicle dispatch. The two mechanics have even made “house calls,” going outside the wire to fix vehicles that succumbed to the rough terrain and couldn’t be driven back to base. They had the vehicles on the road again within three hours. Army Sgt. Benjamin House with the Arizona National Guard calls the airmen mechanics “mission essential.”
Air Force Using AI to Plan Storage for Munitions
Nov. 13, 2025
When lawmakers and outside experts turn their attention to how the U.S. military can use of artificial intelligence, they tend to focus on weapons systems—the most consequential and risk-laden use cases—and on generative AI. But behind the scenes, the Air Force is already using machine learning algorithms to help solve…
