163d Attack Wing

🛫✈In a busy migratory corridor, wildlife biologists and mission partners keep the flightline safe through the Bird/Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard (BASH) program.

🐦 60 raptors humanely relocated in 2025
📉 Bird strikes reduced from 55 → 8
⚠️ Every mitigation = safer takeoffs, stronger readiness

Because protecting the mission means sharing the sky 🦅💪

❤️🇺🇸 Families serving together. Generations answering the call.

Across the wing, multiple generations of Airmen continue to serve side by side—a reflection of a culture built on trust, support, and belonging.



🔗https://www.dvidshub.net/news/567227/163d-families-serve-together

Readiness from the ground up… ⛺

Force Support Squadron Airmen participated in annual readiness training, assembling multi-purpose tents and strengthening their expeditionary skills needed to establish and sustain operations anywhere.



📸 : Staff Sgt. Bridgitte Taylor

🧰🔧 The right tool at the right time can make all the difference.

Maintenance support Airmen work behind the scenes to inspect, track, issue, and maintain the equipment that keeps maintenance operations running smoothly. Their attention to detail and commitment to accountability help ensure aircraft remain mission-ready and prepared to answer the call. ✈️⚙️

⛽🔧 Behind every mission-ready MQ-9 Reaper is a team of maintainers willing to go where the job demands, including spaces few people could fit into.

After identifying a fuel leak, these Airmen combined technical expertise, strict safety procedures, and teamwork to return the aircraft to operational status. ✈️💪



📸 Senior Master Sgt. Julianne Sitterding

🚁 Staying ahead of the threat, the Hap Arnold Innovation Center is helping drive innovative, operationally relevant solutions that strengthen counter-UAS operations and advance capabilities supporting drone dominance, Homeland Defense, and mission readiness. 🇺🇸

🔗 https://www.dvidshub.net/news/566472/ahead-threat-163d-attack-wing-spearheads-counter-uas-strategies



📸 Maj. Adam Lucero and Staff Sgt. Michael Richmond

🚧🔨 Rebuilding the runway. Restoring the mission. ✈️🏗️

Instructors at the 163d Regional Training Site train more than 1,000 Airmen annually in Rapid Damage Repair, a critical Civil Engineer skill—restoring airpower in contested environments. 💪🚜🦺

Through teamwork and hands-on training, these instructors ensure Airmen are Ready Now and Tomorrow. ⚡💥

https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article-View/Article/4500383/california-guard-trains-airmen-to-rapidly-repair-damaged-airfields/



📸 Senior Master Sgt. Julianne Sitterding

Strong leaders build strong teams. ✍️💪✈️📝

Airmen from across the region came together for the California Force Development Course to sharpen leadership skills, build resilience, and develop the tools needed to lead in today’s Air Force.



📸 Senior Master Sgt. Julianne Sitterding

🎯 Accuracy. Control. Confidence. 💥
Check out our Security Forces defenders perform heavy weapons qualification at Edwards Air Force Base, engaging targets of varying shapes, sizes and distances to simulate real-world combat scenarios.
Peacetime or active combat operations, our Airmen are always training, always ready and always there.



📸 Tech Sgt. Joseph Pagan
📸 Airman 1st Class Adam Stevenson