Airmen from
Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, joined fellow airmen at Kadena AB, Japan, and Navy and Marine Corps crews who gathered at Kadena on Aug. 7 for the third Joint Air and Sea Exercise 2005. Exercise participants include Kadena’s KC-135s, HH-60G Pave Hawks, E-3 AWACS, and the Navy’s USS Kitty Hawk Carrier Strike Group.
Golden Dome Details Begin to Emerge
Dec. 7, 2025
The Golden Dome air and missile defense shield to protect the United States will have some “operational capability” in 2028, the program’s leader said Dec. 6 at the Reagan National Defense Forum.

