The 36th Contingency Response Group recently left Andersen AFB, Guam, to participate in this year’s Balikatan 06 exercise, scheduled to run from Feb. 20 to March 5. Balikatan, a Tagalog word for “shouldering the load together,” is a yearly bilateral exercise between Philippine and US forces that began 22 years ago. Air Force participants include the 36th CRG, the 291st and 293rd Expeditionary Combat Communications Flights, the 31st and 33rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadrons, and the 36th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron.
United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket is slated to fly its second national security mission in February—nearly six months after its first operational launch and almost a year after it was certified to fly military payloads for the Space Force.
