Members of the 944th Fighter Wing honor fallen comrades during a “Fallen Comrade Ruck,” at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., June 2, 2024. The 944th Top Three organized the event, which saw participants from various squadrons come together, carrying weighted packs or vests for a two-mile trek, starting with a roll call at 5 a.m. Participants also contributed to a food drive, bringing canned goods that were collected at the end of the ruck to be donated to local food banks. This added an element of community service to the commemorative efforts, emphasizing the wing’s commitment to service before self. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Tyler J. Bolken)
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Reserve Citizen Airmen of the 944th Fighter Wing’s Aeromedical Staging Squadron conduct Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) training at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., May 8, 2024, during their 2-week annual tour. The Air Force's announcement, earlier this year, outlined a focus on developing people, generating readiness, and projecting power, with a notable shift toward hands-on, realistic training environments. The training scenarios had the Reserve Citizen Airmen armed with paintball guns while they sought to care for casualties with hemorrhaging wounds in a battlefield environment with enemy aggressors attacking them. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Tyler J. Bolken)
Military children of the 944th Fighter Wing experience a day in the life of their parents during Operation Reserve Kids at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., April 7, 2024. The event, hosted by 944th FW Military and Family Readiness, gave 85 children an opportunity to learn about what their parents experience when going through a deployment.
More than 75 Reserve Citizen Airmen of the 944th Fighter Wing, along with 10 Airmen from the 56th Fighter Wing, conducted ‘Ready Airmen Training’ during what was dubbed “Field Training Exercise Desert Anvil”, the first of its kind hosted by the 944th Mission Support Group with the 944th Aeromedical Staging Squadron at Florence Military Reservation in Florence, Ariz., Apr. 5-6, 2024. The mission of this training was for Airmen to transcend the boundaries of their usual roles and embrace the unpredictability of combat through a rigorous training regimen designed to mirror the complexities of modern warfare. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Tyler J. Bolken)
The 944th Fighter Wing mission video highlights the wing's air frames, Citizen Airmen, and its capabilities as well as its geographically separated units. (U.S. Air Force video footage contributed by Maj. Christopher Vasquez, Master Sgt. Courtney Richardson, Staff Sgt. Tyler J. Bolken, Senior Airman Alexis Orozco)
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