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  • Two male Air Force service members fold an American flag at a cemetery while a four-person color guard stands in the background.

    Volunteering to honor with dignity

    Years ago, the responsibility to provide military funeral honors would routinely be tasked to the mortuary affairs offices. They in turn tasked either the base security forces squadron or fledgling honor guard teams made up of volunteers that held practices after their duty day was done.

  • 55th Wing strengthens Agile Combat Employment capabilities

    The 55th Wing recently deployed an RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft to a simulated forward operating base at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, as part of Operation Agile Warhawk, an exercise designed to test the wing’s Agile Combat Employment capabilities.
  • Graphic showing RC-135 aircraft, two images of Airmen performing the mission, lists three missions of squadron, and various stats representing a cyberspace vulnerability assessment.

    55th Communications Squadron seeks redesignation as 55th Cyber Squadron

    The 55th Communications Squadron recently met all objectives required by the Air Force’s Cyber Squadron Initiative and is seeking redesignation as the 55th Cyber Squadron.
  • female Lieutenant Colonel standing in conference room with U.S. flag and Air Force flags behind her and in front of cell phone with her right hand raised to the right of the photograph a Technical Sergeant on a large television screen; as he takes oath of enlistment

    343d Recruiting Squadron zoom to adapt to the challenge

    The 343d Recruiting Squadron became one of team Offutt’s partner units in 2010. It is one of nine units geographically separated from the 372nd Recruiting Group at Hill AFB, Utah, and one of 24 recruiting squadrons in Air Force Recruiting Service, headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. “Being on a base offers additional security that some recruiting squadron headquarters and all active duty recruiting offices don’t have,” said Lt. Col. Janelle Koch, 343d RCS commander. “With the support we get from the 55th Wing, we have access to facilities and contracts that allows us to keep our primary focus on our recruiters out in the field.”
  • Two women and two uniformed men cut a ribbon in front of a building.

    55th Wing dedicates new headquarters facility

    The 55th Wing officially unveiled their new headquarters facility and dedicated it to retired Col. William E. Riggs during a ceremony here April 30, 2021.
  • Picture of 5 men standing in semi-circle and talking

    55th Wing officially welcomed to Lincoln during ceremony

    The Nebraska National Guard officially welcomed the 55th Wing to the Lincoln Airport during a ceremony April 16.
  • Group photo of 16th Weather Squadron members from above.

    Cyber Evolution: 16th WS

    The 16th Weather Squadron is leading the way, reorganizing to become the 557th Weather Wing’s dedicated software and innovation squadron, a move that will generate new insights on environmental intelligence for combatant commanders around the globe. When complete, the reorganization will reinforce 16th WS’s culture of science and technological innovation and warfighter ethos, contributing to the National Defense Strategy’s line of effort to reform the Defense Department for greater lethality and performance.
  • Rescue dogs help heal wounded warriors

    Rescue dogs help heal wounded warriors

    The Office of the Warrior Advocate is a first-of-its-kind organization that was founded by two wounded warriors that saw a need. It is in that same spirit of seeing needs and answering the call that service dogs are becoming part of Offutt’s landscape and cultural norms.
  • Lt. Gen Timothy Haugh, Sixteenth Air Force commander, speaks during the 557th Weather Wing’s Sixteenth Air Force reassignment ceremony at the wing’s headquarters building, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, Oct. 29, 2019. Sixteenth Air Force is headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, and is the Air Force’s first information warfare NAF. (U.S. Air Force photo by Paul Shirk)

    557th WW realigns under new information warfare NAF

    The 557th Weather Wing has been reassigned to the Sixteenth Air Force (Air Forces Cyber). The reassignment ceremony, held at the 557th WW’s headquarters here Oct. 29, was attended by commanders from Sixteenth Air Force (Air Forces Cyber) and Twelfth Air Force (Air Forces Southern), its former Numbered Air Force.
  • Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, Sixteenth Air Force (Air Forces Cyber) commander, talks with Airmen from the 55th Strategic Communication Squadron Airmen inside their Tactical Radio Bay during a visit here Oct. 30, 2019.

    New NAF commander visits Team Offutt

    The commander of the recently established Sixteenth Air Force (Air Forces Cyber) visited here Oct. 28-30. The visit marked Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh’s first as commander of the new information warfare Numbered Air Force, which was re-activated Oct. 11.
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