Sept. 25, 2025 Accountability ensures Lethality The 55th Logistics Readiness Squadron’s equipment accountability element and customer support team recently completed a one-hundred percent physical inventory inspection of all equipment and vehicles in preparation for the Department of Defense’s Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness inspection
Sept. 24, 2025 Living courage: One Airman’s heroism The evening of Aug. 6, 2025, began like countless others for Senior Airman Harrison Friar. He was home in Glenwood, Iowa, on parental leave, enjoying precious time with his young family. The sun was dipping low, casting warm light across his quiet neighborhood. Children played outside, neighbors
Sept. 19, 2025 The long road home: Putting a name to the fallen On a sunny day on the Offutt flightline the remains of unidentified service members in flag draped caskets are repatriated in an honorable carry ceremony where military pallbearers carry them off a C-17 Globemaster III, marking one step in the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency process.
Sept. 19, 2025 Offutt hosts Governors' Homeland Security Advisors The National Governors Association Governor’s Homeland Security Advisors Council conducted an immersion at Offutt Air Force Base, Sept. 17, 2025.
Aug. 26, 2025 Community unites, strengthens Airmen Team Offutt hosted its third quarterly Community Partnership meeting on Aug. 12, 2025, at the Offutt Event Center.
Aug. 20, 2025 Offutt soaps up Rivet Joint for safety Members from the 55th Maintenance Group washed an RC-135V/W Rivet Joint aircraft inside the Bennie L. Davis Maintenance Facility dock 5 at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, July 25.
Aug. 7, 2025 Offutt tests Airmen, first responders in Major Accident Response Exercise If a catastrophic incident occurred on Offutt, such as a plane crash, a quick emergency response could be the difference between life or death in addition to minimizing the carnage and destruction that lies in its wake.
Aug. 5, 2025 Offutt upgrades CATM The 55th Security Forces Squadron recently updated their Combat Arms Training and Maintenance facility with the finished construction of the new SFS campus on Offutt Air Force Base.
July 29, 2025 Congressman Bacon, U.K. MPs visit Offutt Congressman Don Bacon, Nebraska 2nd District, and U.K. parliament members Ms. Charlotte Owen, Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge and Mr. Peter Bedford, MP for Mid Leicestershire, visited Offutt Air Force Base on July 26, 2025.
July 24, 2025 557th Weather Wing welcomes new commander The 557th Weather Wing welcomed its new commander, Col. K. Hank Chilcoat, following an assumption of command ceremony at Offutt Air Force Base, July 22.
July 10, 2025 355th Wing Hosts Foreign Liaison Officers OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AFNS) — The 355th Wing, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, hosted the United States Air Force South Foreign Liaison Officers Immersion event June 9, 2025. The event brought together representatives from multiple partner nations to foster greater understanding of the
June 30, 2025 DPAA Met with Gold Star Families in Omaha, Nebraska for Vietnam War Annual Government Briefing The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency held its Vietnam War Annual Government Briefing in Omaha, Nebraska, on June 26 and 27, providing families with the latest information regarding their loved ones’ cases. This was the first time holding the meeting outside of Washington D.C.
June 25, 2025 Offutt’s 55th Medical Group holds change of command Col. Tracy Bozung relinquished command of the 55th Medical Group to Col. Sarah Evans during a change of command ceremony held June 24, 2025, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska.
May 28, 2025 Peace and mindfulness: MindGym arrives at Offutt Many Airmen workout and go to the gym to maintain peak physical readiness for duty, but what about working out the mind to ensure optimum mental fitness?
May 21, 2025 Offutt celebrates National Police Week The 55th Security Forces Squadron celebrated National Police Week with a series of events to showcase their Defenders here from May 12-16.
May 20, 2025 Airman builds partnerships one patient at a time Service members know that the possibility to deploy or go on a one-year unaccompanied tour to a foreign land is part of military life. For one Airman, it was an opportunity for self-improvement and making meaningful connections.
May 9, 2025 AAFES Chief looks to improve life at Offutt The Army & Air Force Exchange Service’s senior enlisted advisor is ensuring Warfighters at Offutt Air Force Base have what they need for readiness, resiliency and lethality.
May 7, 2025 Offutt kicks off 2025 AFAF campaign The 2025 annual Air Force Assistance Fund campaign kicked off at the Offutt Event center on Offutt Air Force base, May 2.
May 2, 2025 Fallen Airman’s memory lives on with ruck march The 557th Weather Wing held a ruck march April 25, 2025, to memorialize a fallen Airman.