Calibrating measuring devices in a lab may not sound exciting, but when you’re talking about ensuring hospital equipment, test equipment, and aircraft instrument test sets function properly, it’s an indispensable part of forward operations. Which is why the precision measurement equipment laboratory’s claim of being the only 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron workgroup that serves the entire AOR in Southwest Asia carries weight. The team, which covers 201 work centers within eight countries, has seen its monthly workload increase within the past six months by 1,200 items.
The Air Force achieved its goal of recruiting 32,750 Active-Duty enlisted Airmen for 2026 five months ahead of schedule, military officials said this week—its biggest recruiting year in more than two decades.