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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Rebecca Carolan, entry controller, and Senior Airman Miguel Tapia, response force leader, both with the 633d Security Forces Squadron fire blank rounds at a simulated enemy force at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Nov. 1, 2022.

Nov. 7, 2022

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. -- Airmen with the 633d Security Forces Squadron perform in a field exercise to defend the base through different combat scenarios.

U.S. Air Force Airmen, assigned to the 362nd Training Squadron, Detachment One, conduct helicopter maintenance on a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, simulator at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, July 16, 2021. The training course is designed to encourage students to work and communicate with each other to master these tasks. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Sarah Dowe)

Aug. 13, 2021

Sharpening their skills; Soldiers and Airmen learn to maintain helicopters

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — Air Force maintainers at JBLE are commonly associated with F-22 Raptors and other jets. It may come as a surprise to know some Airmen also learn how to maintain helicopters while training at JBLE.

June 15, 2021

Army rolls out new training doctrine FM 7-0 with pivotal changes

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas — The U.S. Army delivered its new training doctrine publication, Field Manual (FM) 7-0, Training, on the Army’s 246th birthday, June 14, 2021. The timing is significant because 242 years ago, Baron von Steuben published the first official training manual of the United States Army in 1779, after the Continental Army’s crucible training at Valley Forge.

Feb. 16, 2021

LOTS of training

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — The 10th Transportation Battalion (Terminal) conducted a Logistics Over-the-Shore training at Joint Expeditionary Base-Little Creek, Virginia, Feb. 1 – 5, 2021. The objective was to train in command and control, terminal, and redeployment operations to support joint LOTS and/or large-scale combat operations from a simulated port environment to a simulated corps support area.

Nov. 13, 2020

At port or on dry land, fire department will defend

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — Firefighters assigned to the 733d Civil Engineer Division’s Fort Eustis Fire Department conducted a live-fire exercise at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Nov. 9, 2020.

Nov. 2, 2020

The road gets longer if you want to be stronger

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — “This is about building junior Soldiers up so when they become leaders, they can carry this forward,” the detachment sergeant said. “This is what the Army embodies. The fact that they retain the information given to them and apply it, I see it as a win any day in my book.”

Oct. 2, 2020

We didn’t start the fire: Fort Eustis Firefighters practice like they play

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — Firefighters assigned to the 733d Civil Engineer Division conducted a training exercise at Felker Army Air Field, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Sept. 24, 2020.

Aug. 10, 2020

Hurricane Ready: firefighters provide chainsaw training

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va — As peak hurricane season approaches in Hampton Roads, late August through late October, firefighters assigned to the 733rd Civil Engineer Division Fire and Emergency Services provided chainsaw training to active duty U.S. Army Soldiers at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, August 6, 2020.

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Stephen Drakes, 192 Operations Support Squadron, Virginia Air National Guard SERE Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape non-commissioned officer in charge, ensures Lt. Col. Jonathan Kuntz, 633rd 1st Operations Support Squadron director of operations, and Capt. Nathan Miller, 94th Fighter Squadron instructor pilot, talk about the advantages of finding a water source during a training at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Dec. 12, 2019. The training taught skills needed to survive in the event of an isolation situation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Sarah Dowe)

Jan. 14, 2020

SERE-ious training

JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape specialists are experts on how to survive in the most remote and hostile environments in the world. Along with teaching water survival courses, SERE specialists at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, train aircrew personnel on an array of skills from making a basic shelter to escaping an active pursuant.

U.S. Air Force Capt. Nathaniel Flack, Department of Electrical and computer engineering student at the Air Force Institute of Technology, lays down a Battlespace Next card at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Nov. 18, 2019. Flack created the game to improve training within the Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Sarah Dowe)

Nov. 20, 2019

Playing cyberspace

Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va. — At times the most effective approach to fixing a problem is coming up with a creative solution. For the U.S. Air Force finding the solution to some of those problems requires the input and ideas of countless Airmen.