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  • Globemaster brings Airmen to Youngstown for training

    Tech. Sgt. Ian Ludy, a maintainer with the 910th Maintenance Group, waits to marshal in a C-17 Globemaster III at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, May 5, 2024. The aircraft transported Airmen to Youngstown ARS for security forces Defender and medical training to ensure they are combat-ready.

  • IDLC 23, August: Grenades and claymores

    Senior Master Sgt. Daniel Chase, Integrated Defense Leadership Course chief assigned to the 310th Security Forces Squadron, Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, instructs IDLC students assigned to the Texas Air National Guard’s 204th SFS and the 919th SFS, Duke Field, Florida, on how to detonate a

  • Forging Defenders for the fight

    Based at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, IDLC is a year-round training program that focuses on Agile Combat Employment concepts and the tactical skills necessary for Defenders in wartime situations.

  • IDLC 23, August: Guard and Reserve Defenders learn TCCC

    Staff Sgt. David Duncan, a Defender assigned to the 919th Security Forces Squadron, Duke Field, Florida, performs tactical combat casualty care during on Tech. Sgt. Taylor Adamson, an Integrated Defense Leadership Course cadre member assigned to the 507th SFS, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, during

  • IDLC 23, July course: Static defense

    Staff Sgt. Frank Chichester, a Defender assigned to Patrick Space Force Base, Florida's 920th Security Forces Squadron, opens a litter for transporting causalities during a training exercise on July 24, 2023, at Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center, Ohio. Chichester participated in

  • IDLC 23, July Course: Grenades and claymores

    Air Force Reserve security forces Airmen and, for the first time in the program's history, members of the Air National Guard stationed in North Carolina traveled to Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, in July to participate in the two-week Integrated Defense Leadership Course to develop tactical

  • 910th Defenders: Transforming tactical skills

    An Ohio National Guard CH-47 Chinook helicopter carrying Air Force Reserve Command Security Forces Defenders flies over Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center, Ohio, on July 25, 2023. AFRC Defenders participated in a joint force training exercise focused on combat readiness and their

  • Video: Tactical Combat Casualty Care

    Integrated Defense Leadership Course students learn Tactical Combat Casualty Care skills and practice them in a high-stress environment during the July 2023 course at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio.

  • IDLC 23: Defender cadre certified on claymores

    Senior Airman Brianna Clay, an Integrated Defense Leadership Course cadre member assigned to the 349th Security Forces Squadron, Travis Air Force Base, California, prepares a practice claymore during a training exercise on May 31, 2023, at Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center, Ohio.