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  • 58th SOW leaders at Kirtland AFB welcome Enhanced Fuselage Trainer

    Col. Michael Curry, 58th Special Operations Wing commander, and Lt. Col. Benjamin Bryant, 58th Training Squadron commander, cut a ceremonial ribbon Jan. 15 at Kirtland Air Force Base, officially welcoming the Enhanced Fuselage Trainer. The new, one-of-a-kind, ground-based device, abbreviated “EFuT,”

  • AFRL’s Starfire Optical Range observes asteroid satellite

    Air Force Research Laboratory researcher, Dr. Jack Drummond and his team recently discovered a small satellite named Olympias around the asteroid Roxane – a sighting they did not anticipate. Their results were published this month [January 2021] in “Icarus, the Journal of Solar System Studies.”

  • AFRL spacecraft collects never before seen data

    The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX) spacecraft has been operating since its launch in June 2019, conducting unique studies into the interactions of radio waves, space plasma and the radiation belts in near-Earth space. AFRL is studying how very low

  • Coalition VIRTUAL FLAG: joint and coalition partners train as they fight

    The 705th Combat Training Squadron, home of Air Combat Command's Distributed Mission Operations Center, recently hosted one of the world's largest virtual air combat exercises at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. Coalition VIRTUAL FLAG 21‑1 ran at distributed locations across the globe, October

  • Air Force selects Kirtland AFB for AC-130J FTU

    The Air Force selected Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, as the preferred location for the relocation of the AC-130J Ghostrider Formal Training Unit from Hurlburt Field, Florida.

  • 20 AF commander visits KAFB; mission continuity amid COVID-19

    U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael J. Lutton, 20th Air Force commander, visited Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, July 21-22, 2020, to meet with Team Kirtland members to learn about the missions they perform everyday and their impacts on national security.

  • Kirtland Airmen Assist with Honor Flight

    Airman First Class Cassandra Nyati, 377th Air Base Wing, escorts veteran Alfred Baye off his flight at the Sunport Airport, Albuquerque, N.M. June 7, 2019. Kirtland Airmen volunteered to assist with the three-day mission known as an Honor Flight, a mission conducted by non-profit organizations

  • Kirtland Talks: SFS/CC Chamberlin defines the “why”

    Every quarter a member of Team Kirtland gives a short, inspirational talk on various topics related to resiliency, called “Kirtland Talks”. This quarter, Maj. Shawn Chamberlin, 377th Security Forces Squadron commander, spoke on how he discovered his “why” and how Team Kirtland can discover theirs.