Airmen from Hickam AFB, Hawaii, left this week for Suva, Fiji, to participate in a training mission for Fijian military leaders and humanitarian programs. Lt. Col. Mylene Huynh, the mission commander and a PACAF international health affairs preventive medicine physician, said the 15th Medical Group team will spend about 20 days in Fiji going to rural villages to deliver health care, training military members, and discussing health care with civilian officials.
Happy Birthday US Air Force: 78 Today
Sept. 18, 2025
Seventy-eight years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1947, Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first ever Secretary of the Air Force, and the Air Force officially became the first new military service since the Revolutionary War.