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Taxiing a patient

U.S. Air Force Capt. Lynn Nguyen, a 18th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron flight nurse, guides medical personnel onto a C-17 Globemaster III during an aeromedical evacuation at Misawa Air Force Base, Japan, March 22, 2017. Medical professionals from across the world came together to transport a critical patient to Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Brittany A. Chase)
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Trident Juncture 2015

Opening Ceremony of Exercise Trident Juncture at Trapani Air Base, Italy. Rising of the Trident Juncture 2015 flag. More than 5,000 U.S. service members will participate in NATO’s Trident Juncture 2015 exercise conducted in Spain, Portugal and Italy, Belgium, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway and at sea, in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Trident Juncture is the largest NATO LIVEX to be conducted in the past 20 years, and serves as an annual NATO Response Force (NRF) certification exercise for 2016. The U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps and Special Operations personnel supporting the exercise will arrive from European and CONUS locations, to include some Army and Air National Guard assets. Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR), will be certified during this exercise and assume the role as the Special Operations Component Command for the NRF in 2016. Exercise Trident Juncture runs until Nov. 6, 2015.
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Trident Juncture 2015

Opening Ceremony of Exercise Trident Juncture at Trapani Air Base, Italy. Rising of the Trident Juncture 2015 flag. More than 5,000 U.S. service members will participate in NATO’s Trident Juncture 2015 exercise conducted in Spain, Portugal and Italy, Belgium, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway and at sea, in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Trident Juncture is the largest NATO LIVEX to be conducted in the past 20 years, and serves as an annual NATO Response Force (NRF) certification exercise for 2016. The U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps and Special Operations personnel supporting the exercise will arrive from European and CONUS locations, to include some Army and Air National Guard assets. Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR), will be certified during this exercise and assume the role as the Special Operations Component Command for the NRF in 2016. Exercise Trident Juncture runs until Nov. 6, 2015.
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Lt. Gen. Cox assumes command of 18th AF

Lt. Gen. Samuel Cox speaks to members of 18th Air Force during his Assumption of Command ceremony at the Scott Club on Scott Air Force Base, Oct. 19, 2015. As 18th AF commander, Cox will lead Air Mobility Command’s operational mission as Air Forces Transportation, the air component of U.S. Transportation Command. He is responsible for the command’s worldwide operational mission of providing rapid, global mobility and sustainment for America’s armed forces through airlift, aerial refueling, aeromedical evacuation, and contingency response. Additionally, Cox also commands Task Force 294, which oversees Air Force tanker operations in support of U.S. Strategic Command. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Thomas J. Doscher
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18 AF, USAF EC commanders complete tour of Pacific mobility units

Maj. Gen. Frederick Martin, U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center commander, and Command Chief Master Sgt. Robert Rodewald, 18th Air Force Command Chief, speak to members of the 731st Air Mobility Squadron on Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, March 25, as part of a week-long tour of mobility units in the Pacific area of responsibility. The visits focused on members of the 515th Air Mobility Operations Wing, which serves as the Pacific arm of the USAF EC and is operationally controlled by 18th AF through the Tanker Airlift Control Center at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jacob Barreiro)
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18 AF, USAF EC commanders complete tour of Pacific mobility units

Lt. Gen. Carlton D. Everhart II, 18th Air Force commander, speaks to members of the 731st Air Mobility Squadron on Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, March 25, as part of a week-long tour of mobility units in the Pacific area of responsibility. Everhart and Maj. Gen. Frederick Martin, U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center commander, visited Airmen at five bases to learn first-hand the accomplishments and challenges these Airmen face in their operational roles. The visits focused on members of the 515th Air Mobility Operations Wing, which serves as the Pacific arm of the USAF EC and is operationally controlled by 18th AF through the Tanker Airlift Control Center at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jacob Barreiro)
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18 AF, USAF EC commanders complete tour of Pacific mobility units

Maj. Gen. Frederick Martin, U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center commander, and Lt. Gen. Carlton D. Everhart II, 18th Air Force commander, hold a commander's call for members of the 731st Air Mobility Squadron on Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, March 25, as part of a week-long tour of mobility units in the Pacific area of responsibility. The commanders visited Airmen at five bases to learn first-hand the accomplishments and challenges these Airmen face in their operational roles. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jacob Barreiro)
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780th EAS ends transit mission at MK

MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU AIR BASE, Romania - Lt. Col. Todd McCoy, 780th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron commander, cases the squadron's colors during a ceremony officially ending the U.S. Air Force mission on Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, Romania, Dec. 29, 2014. Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, or MK, replaced Manas Air Base, Kyrgystan, as the Air Force's air transportation hub for operations into and out of Afghanistan. From Jan. 15, 2014 to Dec. 29, 2014, More than 83,000 U.S. and coalition personnel and more than 5,800 tons of cargo transited MK over the course of 507 C-17 missions. (DoD photo by Lance Cpl. Ryan Young)
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Ultimate Caduseus 14

Active duty and Air Force Air National Guard Aeromedical Evacuation members train on a C-130 during a national disaster exercise, Ultimate Caduceus 2014 March 31, 2014. During Ultimate Caduceus, part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency?s National Capstone Exercise, AE members provided medical support, processed and transferred patients. By interacting and working closely with our federal, state and joint partners, Airmen in Utlimate Caduceus 14 are able to develop refinements to processes and procedures that can potentially enhance the effectiveness of real-world relief operations. The aeromedical teams were comprised of more than 18 AE crew members from Pope Army Airfield, N.C., Scott AFB, Ill., and Cheyenne ANG base, Wyo. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Staff Sgt. Stephenie Wade)
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USSTRATCOM Commander visits 18th AF

SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. - Admiral Cecil D. Haney, Commander, United States Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. talks with Maj. Gen. Barbara Faulkenberry, 18th Air Force Vice Commander, during a visit here March 11. The visit allowed AMC and 18th Air Force leaders to discuss more effective ways to carry out the commands' global missions. "The relationship between U.S. Strategic Command and the 18th Air Force is critical," said Haney. "At the end of the day, when all else fails, our strategic capability has to work. We can't successfully employ the bomber leg of the nuclear triad without the [18th Air Force's] refuelers." USSTRATCOM relies on various components for the execution of its global missions, including space operations, information operations, missile defense, global command and control; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR); global strike and strategic deterrence, and combating weapons of mass destruction. The 18th Air Force supports USSTRATCOM's mission by providing aerial refueling capabilities through Task Force 294.
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USSTRATCOM Commander visits 18th AF

SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. - Admiral Cecil D. Haney, Commander, United States Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. talks with Maj. Gen. Barbara Faulkenberry, 18th Air Force Vice Commander, during a visit here March 11. The visit allowed AMC and 18th Air Force leaders to discuss more effective ways to carry out the commands' global missions. "The relationship between U.S. Strategic Command and the 18th Air Force is critical," said Haney. "At the end of the day, when all else fails, our strategic capability has to work. We can't successfully employ the bomber leg of the nuclear triad without the [18th Air Force's] refuelers." USSTRATCOM relies on various components for the execution of its global missions, including space operations, information operations, missile defense, global command and control; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR); global strike and strategic deterrence, and combating weapons of mass destruction. The 18th Air Force supports USSTRATCOM's mission by providing aerial refueling capabilities through Task Force 294.
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USSTRATCOM Commander visits 18th AF

SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. - Admiral Cecil D. Haney, Commander, United States Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. talks with Maj. Gen. Barbara Faulkenberry, 18th Air Force Vice Commander, during a visit here March 11. The visit allowed AMC and 18th Air Force leaders to discuss more effective ways to carry out the commands' global missions. "The relationship between U.S. Strategic Command and the 18th Air Force is critical," said Haney. "At the end of the day, when all else fails, our strategic capability has to work. We can't successfully employ the bomber leg of the nuclear triad without the [18th Air Force's] refuelers." USSTRATCOM relies on various components for the execution of its global missions, including space operations, information operations, missile defense, global command and control; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR); global strike and strategic deterrence, and combating weapons of mass destruction. The 18th Air Force supports USSTRATCOM's mission by providing aerial refueling capabilities through Task Force 294.
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USSTRATCOM Commander visits 18th AF

SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. - Admiral Cecil D. Haney, Commander, United States Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. talks with Maj. Gen. Barbara Faulkenberry, 18th Air Force Vice Commander, during a visit here March 11. The visit allowed AMC and 18th Air Force leaders to discuss more effective ways to carry out the commands' global missions. "The relationship between U.S. Strategic Command and the 18th Air Force is critical," said Haney. "At the end of the day, when all else fails, our strategic capability has to work. We can't successfully employ the bomber leg of the nuclear triad without the [18th Air Force's] refuelers." USSTRATCOM relies on various components for the execution of its global missions, including space operations, information operations, missile defense, global command and control; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR); global strike and strategic deterrence, and combating weapons of mass destruction. The 18th Air Force supports USSTRATCOM's mission by providing aerial refueling capabilities through Task Force 294.
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Partners

SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. - Lt. Gen. Darren McDew, 18th Air Force Commander, talks with Maj. Gen. Scott Vander Hamm (right) during a visit to the 18th Air Force, Feb. 19. The visit allowed leaders to discuss strengthening the partnership between the two commands. "Command relationships are important, but relationships between commanders even more so," said Vander Hamm. "Our Airmen have fought together, sat alert together and that partnership will continue." (U.S. Air Force photo/Captain Josh Daniels)
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New Air Hub

MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU AIR BASE, Romania - Servicemembers board a C-17 bound for Afghanistan. After more than a decade of operations at Manas, Kyrgystan, the Romanian location has become the U.S. military's main air hub for passengers and cargo into and out of Afghanistan.
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New Air Hub

MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU AIR BASE, Romania - Airmen load cargo aboard a C-17 bound for Afghanistan. After more than a decade of operations at Manas, Kyrgystan, the Romanian location has become the U.S. military's main air hub for passengers and cargo into and out of Afghanistan.
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Mission partners

SCOTT AFB, Ill. - Brig. Gen. Larry Martin, Deputy Commander of the 618th Air and Space Operations Center (Tanker Airlift Control Center), right, briefs Lt. Gen. William H. Etter, Commander, Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region - 1st Air Force (Air Forces Northern), center, and Lt. Gen. Darren McDew, Commander, 18th Air Force, here May 13. Gen. Etter met with Mobility Airmen and leaders during his visit, expressing appreciation for their support of his command’s role as the air component of U.S. Northern Command. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Capt. Mauri Slater)
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Mission partners

130513-F-OH119-076.jpg SCOTT AFB, Ill. - Lt. Gen. Darren W. McDew, Commander, 18th Air Force, right, greets, Lt. Gen. William H. Etter, Commander, Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region - 1st Air Force (Air Forces Northern), here May 13. Gen. Etter met with Mobility Airmen and leaders during his visit, expressing appreciation for their support of his command’s role as the air component of U.S. Northern Command. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Senior Airman Divine Cox)
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Honor Flight

LAMBERT-ST. LOUIS AIRPORT, Mo. - Lt. Gen. Darren McDew, 18th Air Force commander, speaks to World War II veterans returning from a visit to Washington D.C.'s World War II Memorial as part of the Greater St. Louis Honor Flight here Nov. 13. McDew joined more than a dozen Scott Air Force Base, Ill., servicmembers to greet the vets.
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Honor Flight

LAMBERT-ST. LOUIS AIRPORT, Mo. - Families greet World War II veterans returning from a visit to Washington D.C.'s World War II Memorial as part of the Greater St. Louis Honor Flight here Nov. 13. Lt. Gen. Darren McDew, 18th Air Force commander, joined more than a dozen Scott Air Force Base, Ill., servicmembers to greet the vets.
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