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Joint service members participate in 'Operation Dustoff Vigilance' at JBSA-Camp Bullis
August 7, 2025 — Operation Dustoff Vigilance took place at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, Texas, on July 16, 2025. The exercise focused on improving aeromedical evacuation response in austere environments to better prepare service members for combat deployments... MORE

Reserve recruiters participate in joint air operations at JBSA
February 18, 2021 — In-service recruiters from the 352nd Recruiting Squadron participated in a joint Total Force helicopter sling load exercise Jan. 26-27 to enhance their situational awareness of the Air Force Reserve and broaden their understanding of the aerial transportation career field... MORE

Tech. Sgt. Brasil A. Segura (right), 352nd Recruiting Squadron in-service Air Force Reserve recruiter, braces Senior Airman Arturo Delgado, 26th Aerial Transportation Squadron aerial porter, as they prepare to attach a 2,000 pound A-22 cargo bag to a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flown by Texas Army National Guard Soldiers.

433rd ASTS trains in receiving incoming patients aboard Black Hawks
January 28, 2021 — The 433rd Aeromedical Staging Squadron, 433rd Airlift Wing, participated in an exercise to train in receiving incoming patients at the Joint Base San Antonio-Chapman Training Annex Jan. 9... MORE

Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 433rd Aeromedical Staging Squadron transport a simulated injured patient from a UH-60 Black Hawk to a Humvee for training Jan 9, 2021 at Joint Base San Antonio-Chapman Training Annex. The training helped provide experience to medics in receiving and transporting combat injured individuals. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Mike Lahrman)

JBSA joint, Total Forces practice sling loading skills
December 30, 2020 — A joint Total Force team led by the 74th Aerial Port Squadron peers into a darkened landscape masked by a moonless evening sky in preparation for an ambitious helicopter sling load mission dubbed “Operation Nightstorm.”  ... MORE

U.S. Air Force Reserve Component Airmen assigned to the 74th Aerial Port Squadron, Texas Army National Guard Soldiers from the 2nd Company, 149st Aviation Regiment and 108th Aviation Regiment, and active-duty members from the Air Force Special Warfare Training Support Squadron participate in a helicopter rigging mission, Dec. 15, 2020, at Joint Base San Antonio-Chapman Annex, Texas.

74th Aerial Port Squadron supports Operation Nightstorm
December 26, 2020 — Eight Reserve Citizen Airmen with the 74th Aerial Port Squadron at the 433rd Airlift Wing at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland participated in a joint-service training exercise dubbed Operation Nightstorm Dec. 14-15, learning how to sling load cargo onto in-flight helicopters... MORE

Operation Nightstorm ground crew members familiarize themselves with a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter in preparation for sling loading cargo Dec. 14, 2020, at Martindale Army Air Field, San Antonio, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Samantha Mathison)

Joint warriors utilize JBSA landing zones for vertical lift training
September 17, 2020 — For the second time in as many weeks, joint warriors converged on Joint Base San Antonio-Chapman Annex to formally confirm the suitability of helicopter landing zones in order to expand the maneuver space for vertical lift operations and improve home-station training for San Antonio’s military units... MORE

Two Soldiers under helicopter with rigging equipment.

BAMC hones wartime mission, community response skills
November 13, 2019 — Brooke Army Medical Center recently participated in two major exercises to test the organization’s ability to handle a significant amount of casualties using two different scenarios... MORE

Soldiers offload a simulated casualty from an Air Mobility Command C-17 aircraft after arrival at Joint Base San Antonio-Kelly Airfield as part of a U.S. Army Forces Command Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise Nov. 4. The exercise tested Brooke Army Medical Center staff’s ability to receive and provide definitive care to wartime trauma victims, as part of its Role IV wartime mission.