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  • Cooking Safety Starts With You!

    Fire Prevention Week is back again! It's that time of year where Beale Air Force Base is gearing up for the holiday season, when everyone needs to be extra vigilant about fire safety.  This year's theme, "Cooking safety starts with you”, revolves around kitchen safety. Each year the theme is chosen

  • Det 4 provides a data analysis capability for ACC units

    Air Combat Command's Detachment 4 supports commanders and warfighters across ACC's Numbered Air Forces, Air Operations Centers, Wings, and levels below the Wing to deliver decision dominance through data analytics. Det 4's mission is to execute operational analysis by transforming data into decision

  • MWD Training

    U.S. Air Force 9th Security Forces Squadron military working dog (MWD), Sofi, has been at Beale for almost 4 years. Sofi is 6 years old and her handler, Senior Airman Kiersten Vignere, 9th SFS MWD handler, has been working with her for around 4 months.MWDs like Sofi first arrive at Joint Base San

  • AFCOMAC Senior Officer Orientation Course

    This two-day course is designed to provide DoD senior leaders with an orientation in mass munitions planning and production. The SOO course consists of classroom instruction on conventional munitions planning, hands-on training for various types of munitions, and participation in a mass munitions

  • EOD training, GOLDEN CRAB, simulating deployment grows in its second year

    Some of the Air Force’s most dangerous missions are undertaken by Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squads regardless of the hostilities and hazards of an unpredictable environment. Dangerous and ever evolving threats to people and property requires special skills and tools that are honed and

  • Beale Strives Towards Financial Freedom

    One of the first things most people worry about in their adult life is money. Financial readiness is key to managing personal and professional finances and coping with emergencies.Military members in particular face unique and complex situations such as deployments, family separations, frequent

  • Beale Battery Shop

    Environmental and Electrical (E&E) Airmen are responsible for the maintenance and repair of aircraft power systems, while ensuring aircrew life support systems function properly. Just like maintainers, E&E Airmen may work as a technician on the flightline, or as specialists in the back shops

  • Maj. Gen. Hensley Tour

    U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Thomas Hensley, 16th Air Force deputy commander, talks with a U-2 Dragonlady pilot in a U-2 chase car on Beale Air Force Base, California, Aug. 24, 2023. Maj. Gen. Hensley received a chase car ride to better understand how the U-2 Dragonlady operates. (U.S. Air Force photo

  • AFCOCOMP 2023: Competition Breeds Excellence

    Iron sharpens iron, which is why ammunition Airmen from all across the globe came together at Beale AFB to participate in the Air Force Combat Operations Competition (AFCOCOMP).Eight teams from eight different Major Commands (MAJCOM) competed at the Air Force level for a chance to win the Sierra