A team effort between the Air Force Space Command and the Air Force Reserve Command is taking a new look at the way individual mobilization augmentees train. At Patrick AFB, Fla., recently more than 200 IMAs completed more than 20 hours of training and readiness requirements that they normally would have had to set up and accomplish individually over the course of a year. The joint program, says officials, is a first for IMAs. (Read more here.)
F-35As from the Vermont Air National Guard have deployed to Puerto Rico in recent days, continuing a major buildup of U.S. Air Force assets in Latin America aimed at combating drug trafficking and pressuring the regime of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
