More than 600 Airmen assigned to flights 301-315, graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, April 24-25, 2024. Ava Leone/USAF
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2024 USAF & USSF Almanac: Glossary of Acronyms & Abbreviations
June 7, 2024
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A non-exhaustive list of acronyms and abbreviations found in the 2024 Almanac.
The U.S. carried out airstrikes on Dec. 3 to defend U.S. forces in eastern Syria, the Pentagon said. The operation destroyed three truck-mounted rocket launchers, mortars, an armored personnel carrier, and a T-64 tank. The strikes were intended to defend American forces at their outpost and not to intervene in the…
The Navy is keeping its fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornets at 80 percent readiness, six years after former Defense Secretary James Mattis ordered both the Air Force and Navy to raise their fighters’ readiness levels. The Air Force, meanwhile, has abandoned that goal and its fighters’ mission capable rates are…
The Air Force will move 17 B-1 bombers and more than 800 Airmen to Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., for the next 10 months starting this week, so that Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., can undergo construction to host the new B-21 Raider.
On Nov. 27, Space Systems Command awarded a $196 million contract to RTX, for more work on the Next-Generation Operational Control System, as the OCX program struggles to move forward after nearly 15 years.
Air Force Chief of Staff David W. Allvin said the principal aim of his much-advertised but still secret force design is to refine the service’s thinking and give it options to maneuver in the face of evolving threats—or different budgets.
U.S. Air Forces in Europe reported another round of mysterious small drones flying around a cluster of USAF bases in the United Kingdom and said RAF Fairford, which is currently hosting B-52 bombers, is seeing them as well.
Elon Musk, a confidant of President-elect Trump, has a poor opinion of the F-35 fighter and thinks it should give way to new, uncrewed aircraft. As one of the heads of the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency, Musk's views could affect upcoming contracts and plans for the fighter, but Trump…
The Government Accountability Office wants the Air Force to explain who will run bases when wings deploy under the service’s new force generation model along with several other unanswered questions, saying the concept is long on vision but short on details.
B-52 Stratofortresses popped up from the Middle East to North Africa to the Arctic in recent days, as the U.S. Air Force flexed the reach of its bomber fleet.