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  • RS23 Space Team ACEs Space Deployment

    A coalition space team made history during exercise Resolute Sentinel 23, executing the first-ever defensive space control operation in U. S. Southern Command history and demonstrating the real-world impact of Agile Combat Employment operations for space.

  • U.S., Brazil, Work Together for Exercise Green Flag

    Pilots and aircrew from the U.S. and the Brazilian Air Force worked and trained together during exercise Green Flag West, June 3-14, 2019.Aircrew from the 124th Fighter Wing, Idaho Air National Guard, partnered with members of the Brazilian Air Force for the air-land integration exercise, which gave

  • U.S., partner nations gather for PANAMAX 2017

    Twelfth Air Force (Air Forces Southern) hosted eleven partner nations during PANAMAX 2017, an annual U.S. Southern Command-sponsored multinational exercise focused on ensuring the security of the Panama Canal, held August 12-15.  Service members from U.S. and partner nation air forces joined

  • Practice how you play: AFSOUTH Airmen participate in Blue Flag exercise

    With the battlefield constantly evolving Airmen must be prepared at a moment’s notice to respond to any scenario that may come their way. Airmen from 12th Air Force (Air Forces Southern) with assistance from the 505th Combat Training Squadron, the 183rd Fighter Wing and other partner units are

  • Air Force supports JIATF-S in a big way

    A B-1B Lancer from the Air Force’s 9th Bomb Squadron, out of Dyess Air Force Base, takes off at Naval Air Station Key West’s Boca Chica Field Aug. 23, 2016, in support of Joint Interagency Task Force-South’s mission of detection and monitoring of illicit trafficking. U.S. Air Forces Southern

  • Colombians kick off Green Flag East in Louisiana

    Forty-five Colombian Airmen and four Colombian Air Force A-29B Super Tucanos are operating from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., as part of Exercise Green Flag East Aug. 15-29.The Colombian contingent arrived Aug. 13 and immediately started engaging with their U.S. Air Force counterparts in order to