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  • Deployed to Lead: Beale Airmen Power Expeditionary Operations

    Airmen from the 9th Reconnaissance Wing prepared for departure to become deployed Airmen under U.S. Central Command’s Combined Air Component – Ninth Air Force (Air Forces Central). Beale’s deployers were joined by family, friends and fellow Airmen to see them off. It was an emotional gathering, but

  • Airport Bureau dog teams sniff out Dragon Town

    Dragon Town is a training village. It is most often used by the 9th Security Forces Squadron (SFS) to practice clearing buildings. Today, it was the used by six dog teams of the Explosive Detection K9 unit from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office-- Airport Bureau. Two more teams from Beale’s own

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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,

  • 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