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Oct. 10, 2024
Wheatland Union High School football team touches down on Beale AFB

Those diverse experiences with the Air Force influenced Crawley as a teacher and a coach and, “helped [him] communicate with different groups of students.” When asked if there was much similarity between the training he received in the Air Force and the skills he teaches on the football field, he
Oct. 9, 2024
Beale Innovation Team Members Spark Course Impacting Force of the Future

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – Over the past 6 months, the Beale Innovation Team attended multiple temporary duties (TDY) tackling innovation combat employment under the name Combat Innovation Task Force with the premise that if Airmen were in a contested environment on an island, would they be able
Oct. 4, 2024
First Female Hispanic Pilot Shares Her Journey, Suits Up after 40 Years

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – After a career of breaking barriers, Lt. Col. Custodio retired from the Air Force without taking part in one last tradition among pilots: her fini-flight. Team Beale celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month with cultural presentations, dancing, food and a visit from the
Sept. 25, 2024
Habu Brats Return to Beale AFB After 50 Years

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Fifty years after the Wheatland Union High School (WUHS) Class of 1974 graduated, 25 alumni known as the “Habu Brats,” returned to Beale Air Force Base, where many of their parents supported the legendary SR-71 Blackbird program.
Sept. 17, 2024
My Path to being the First Woman on Beale’s Tactical Response Team

My story begins in North Charleston, South Carolina, long before I put on a military uniform. After high school, I attended Coker University for two years, immersing myself in the world of college athletics as a Division 2 basketball player. My time on the court taught me the value of teamwork,
Sept. 13, 2024
Secretary of Defense announces seven new initiatives to enhance well-being of military force and their families

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III announced seven initiatives to improve the quality of life for service members and their families.
Sept. 10, 2024
Air Force examines emerging tactics during Bamboo Eagle

More than 10,000 personnel from the Department of Defense, the United Kingdom, and Australia participated in exercise Bamboo Eagle 24-3, a combat-representative exercise including operational test and evaluation experts from the 605th Test and Evaluation Squadron. The OT&E experts’ mission was to
Sept. 5, 2024
Serving my country while doing what I love

By Airman 1st Class Grace Glotfelty, 9th Operations Support Squadron weather journeymanEver since I can remember, joining the military was something I wanted to do. Part of that may be due to me growing up less than five miles outside the gates of Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. I remember seeing
Sept. 3, 2024
Beale Chapel Corps Hosts First Clergy Day Since 2019

BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Twenty members from various clergies and faiths in Northern California visited Beale for an immersion into the reconnaissance and chapel corps mission Aug. 28.
Aug. 29, 2024
Beale Airmen conduct Landing Zone operations at California National Guard’s showcase of West Coast Landing Zone

The California National Guard showcased the Army’s premier West Coast Landing Zone (LZ) designed for rapid troop mobility during contingency scenarios Aug. 6-9. The 9th Operations Support Squadron’s airfield operations personnel, from Beale Air Force Base, were invited to conduct the LZ operations,