Jan. 5, 2026 Airmen test readiness during Exercise Pale Serpent Airmen assigned to the 449th Air Expeditionary Group, in conjunction with Army, Marine Corps and Navy partners, conducted readiness training at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, during Exercise Pale Serpent.
Dec. 31, 2025 AFCENT caps 2025 with decisive operations, strengthened partnerships across CENTCOM AOR Ninth Air Force (Air Forces Central) closed out 2025 with a series of decisive victories, sustaining combat airpower against terrorist threats, expanding Coalition integration across the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, and advancing agile employment and base defense technologies to
Dec. 1, 2025 Special Agents expose classified-doc breach, receive Public Service Award Twelve Air Force Office of Special Investigations members received the Northern Virginia Public Service Award for their work uncovering an insider-threat breach involving a civilian engineer who mishandled thousands of classified documents.