• 388th Fighter Wing welcomes new commander

    HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah – The 388th Fighter Wing here received a new commander today as Col. Steven G. Behmer assumed command of the Air Force’s only operational F-35A Lightning II unit.“We will continue to make sure this wing is singularly focused on deploying combat power,” Behmer said. “It’s

  • Views from the fishbowl: Getting to know the new AFMC commander

    The first thing that Gen. Arnold W. Bunch Jr. placed on his desk when he arrived at the Air Force Materiel Command headquarters was not a nameplate, laptop or a to-do list for his first few days in office.Rather, it was a clear glass fishbowl containing a single orange goldfish with wide eyes

  • AFSC commander visits OO-ALC

    Lt. Gen. Donald Kirkland, Air Force Sustainment Center commander, visits with Airmen from the 309th Aircraft Maintenance Group's Expeditionary Depot Maintenance Flight during his visit to Hill Air Force Base, June 19, 2019. Members of the unit travel the world as the Air Force's sole source for

  • Hill’s fighter wings demonstrate global reach with F-35A

    SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany -- From Europe to the Middle East and the high desert of Idaho, the Air Force’s first combat-coded F-35A Lightning II squadrons demonstrated their global reach this week.In a seven-day span, Airmen from Hill Air Force Base’s active duty 388th and Reserve 419th Fighter

  • Air Force career opens world to F-35A maintainer

    SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany -- Staff Sgt. William Richardson doesn’t mind that it is a cliché. He joined the Air Force to see the world. And with this F-35A Lightning II deployment to Europe, he’s doing it.Richardson, an F-35A crew chief in the 421st Aircraft Maintenance Unit, was born on the