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Ready for Anything: Airmen tackle aircraft mishap exercise
March 21, 2025 — JBLE hosted a simulated aircraft crash on March 20, 2025, which provided hands-on training to reinforce rapid response protocols, allowing personnel to fine-tune their decision-making, coordination, and life-saving techniques... MORE

Emergency responders place a patient in the back of an ambulance during a base exercise.

Mitchell Trophy Air Race Returns: Honoring 1 FW Legacy and Innovation
October 17, 2024 — The Mitchell Trophy Air Race is returning this year, challenging some of the Air Force's oldest and premier squadrons in a competition that has not taken place since 1936. This historic event will test the readiness, planning, and operational skills of the entire 1st Fighter Wing, specifically testing the resilience and speed of the 27th Fighter Squadron and Fighter Generation Squadron, the 71st FS and FGS, and the 94th FS and FGS with direct support from the 1st Operations Support Squadron, the 1st Maintenance Squadron, and the 7th Fighter Training Squadron. The 27th and 94th have participated in every iteration of the race since its inception, but this will be the first time for the 71st... MORE

The Mitchell Trophy Air Race, silhouetted by light in a side view at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia.

1st FW accelerates Airmen through MCA
August 30, 2022 — “MCA is designed to train Airmen in varying career fields, on recovering, relaunching, refueling and reloading aircraft in contingency locations in the shortest amount of time possible with no outside support,” said Huffman. “Currently, we have 20 Airmen, each with different maintenance backgrounds, such as aerospace ground equipment, weapons, ammo, low observable and more, participating in the program.”... MORE

1st FW conducts MCA training on the flight line

Look twice for bikes; 1FW hosts Motorcycle Safety Day and Ride
June 6, 2022 — Members from the 1st Fighter Wing hosted a Motorcycle Safety Day open to all Department of Defense riders in the Hampton Roads, Virginia, area on June 3, 2022, the first one the wing has hosted since 2012... MORE

Crossbow Nation shows 1st FW command team the ropes
November 22, 2021 — The 1st Fighter Wing command team immersed themselves in the 633d Air Base Wing mission of providing world class joint base support... MORE

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Alan Carroll, 633d Security Forces Squadron combat arms training and maintenance instructor, gives an overview of the M18 pistol to Col. William Creeden, 1st Fighter Wing commander, at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Nov. 18, 2021.

The Adventure of a Lifetime
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Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Alexander “Thorney” Thorne, 94th Fighter Squadron Foreign Exchange Officer, tests his communication equipment prior to take off at Joint Base Langley-Eustis June 15, 2021. Thorne has flown with the 94 FS for three and a half years.

1st MXG Welcomes New Commander
May 17, 2021 — Col. Neal Van Houten assumed command of the 1st Maintenance Group from Col. David Seitz at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, May 14, 2021. Col. David Lopez, 1st Fighter Wing commander, presided over the change of command... MORE

Flashback: Shield Turns Into Storm
March 3, 2021 — The 30th anniversary of the beginning of Operation DESERT STORM, a massive U.S.-led offensive campaign to liberate Kuwait, was marked Jan. 17, 2021... MORE

Flyby salutes Virginia healthcare, essential workers
May 14, 2020 — The Air Combat Command F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team and Air Force Heritage Flight performed a formation flyover throughout the Virginia peninsula, in salute to everyone on the frontlines in the fight against COVID-19, as well as those staying at home to “flatten the curve” of the virus May 12, 2020. The formation was led by Maj. Joshua “Cabo” Gunderson, F-22 Raptor Demo Team commander, along with two World War II P-51 Mustangs piloted by Jim Beasley Jr. and Andrew McKenna from the Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation. ... MORE

Chaplains alter methods to remain connected
April 26, 2020 — The 1st Fighter Wing Chaplain Office provided lunch for 1FW members at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, April 22, 2020... MORE

U.S. Air Force Capt. Ryan Ayers, 633rd Air Base Wing chaplain, passes a boxed lunch through a window during a 1st Fighter Friday lunch at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, April 22, 2020.

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