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  • Serving our Country is What I Love

    At 21 years old, I was so excited to serve, and I didn’t even realize I was getting paid for it. Coming from a household supported by the Pell Grant, and at times welfare, that first airman 1st class paycheck shocked me.The only person in my family who had served was a grandparent drafted into the

  • New Paws on the Ground

    Beale’s K-9 unit recently welcomed a 66 pound, friendly Belgian Malinois into the unit. Military Working Dog (MWD) Azur is a new narcotics detection dog and was brought in to replace one of the other dogs in the unit when they retired.

  • Maintaining International Partnerships

    In the fields of Beale AFB, looms a large concrete structure home to the 7 Space Warning Squadron (7 SWS). The U.S. Space Force unit is geographically separated from its home station at Space Delta 4, Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado.  7 SWS is charged with monitoring the North American space

  • Navy SEALs Train With Beale Defenders During Exercise Dragon Trident

    Forty Airmen from the 9th Security Forces Squadron (SFS), 9th Medical Group (MDG) and 9th Operations Support Squadron (OSS) from Beale Air Force Base, California, teamed up with East Coast-based Naval Special Warfare Operators (SEALs) for joint Exercise Dragon Trident 1, Jan. 29-31, 2024. This 3-day

  • 99th ERS Educate Local Community on U-2 Dragon Lady

    The 99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron collaborated with the British-American Committee to educate the local community on the U-2 Dragon Lady while promoting friendship, understanding and mutual support between American military, civilian personnel and the British people among whom they live

  • 99th ERS Honors Fallen Members with a Memorial Flight

    Members of 9th Reconnaissance Wing, Beale Air Force Base, Calif., currently deployed to the 99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron (ERS) at RAF Fairford, England, gathered on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 04, 2024, in remembrance of three U.S. Army Soldiers killed in a drone attack on a small U.S.

  • School Shooter Exercise

    Airmen from the 9th Security Forces Squadron tactical response team (TRT) prepare to enter a classroom in an active shooter drill at Beale AFB, California, Dec. 7, 2023. This drill gave Airmen from Beale the opportunity to refine their skills in case of a real life emergency. (U.S. Air Force photo

  • Remembering Mr. Calvin Hendrix

    U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 9th Civil Engineer Squadron render a final salute to the late Calvin Hendrix, 9th CES deputy commander, during his memorial ceremony, Jan. 19, 2024, at Beale Air Force Base, California. Hendrix served in the U.S. Navy as an enlisted member as well as a commissioned