Hill Air Force Base Archives

US Air Force programme set up to encourage STEM careers

Homeland July 23, 2019

The US Air Force has begun a programme to encourage young people to enter STEM careers from the Hill Air Force Base. The LEGACY scheme (Leadership Experience Growing Apprenticeships Committed to Youth) aims to build interest in STEM careers among young learners through summer camps and apprenticeships. The internship and camps ...

F-35A combat readiness celebrated at Hill

August 10, 2016

Hill Air Force Base, Utah hosted a ceremony on 5th August in celebration of the recent announcement that the F-35A Lightning II is ready for combat. General Hawk Carlisle, the commander of US Air Combat Command (ACC), declared that the fifth-generation fighter aircraft was ‘combat ready’ on 2nd August. During the ceremony, ...