The Air Force has announced the other initial beddown locations for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter—it named Eglin AFB, Fla., in August as the site for primary maintenance and flight training. A news release lists the new operational...

Ask the director of operations for the first F-22 squadron to go into combat and he will say the crews—pilots and maintainers—are ready. Lt. Col. Kevin Fesler, DO for the 27th Fighter Squadron at Langley AFB, Va., told Air Force...

Two Air Force Reserve Command HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter crews from the 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick AFB, Fla., rescued a boater Oct. 2 off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla. The Reserve crews were called to assist after Coast Guard, Navy,...

Air Combat Command has appropriated the old electronic warfare exercise dubbed Green Flag and coupled it with the close air support Air Warrior to produce the new Green Flag West (Nellis AFB, Nev.) and Green Flag East (Barksdale AFB, La.)....

Boeing proved in laboratory tests that the Air Force could load small diameter bombs on its common strategic rotary launcher within the bomb bay of B-52 bombers. Boeing tested the SDBs in a weapons integration laboratory, showing that 32 weapons...

Pentagon personnel chief David Chu yesterday said that DOD has not given up the fight to fully implement its new National Security Personnel System, reports Government Executive. Right now, the Justice Department is appealing a court decision preventing the Pentagon...

Northrop Grumman has started flight testing a new radar for the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle—using a high-flying Proteus aircraft stand-in—that will give commanders better situational awareness, combat target identification, target tracking, and time-critical tracking. Called the multi-platform-radar technology insertion...

Richard Lawless, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific affairs who told reporters in Washington Tuesday that the Bush Administration wants South Korea to pay more for defense of the peninsula, also put a timeline on reaching...

A two-week exchange program in September afforded a rare chance for an Arkansas Air National Guard pilot and a British Royal Auxiliary Air Force warrant officer to learn firsthand about the other country’s approach to employment of reserve forces. Maj....

The National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, plans to put on exhibit 60 pieces to showcase a different significant event in the Air Force’s 60 years of history. The exhibit opens Oct. 17 and will run...

A ground-based communication station based at Ramstein AB, Germany tracked ships moving through the Atlantic Ocean using satellite communication during its most recent experiment at Lajes Field, Azores, Portugal. Called Eagle Vision-1, the communication station uses information from civilian remote...

A Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovery team left Austria last week after not finding human remains at the site of a B-17 bomber shot down by German fighters on May 10, 1944. The team, which plans to return, reports that...

A news report from Michigan claims that a state forester has found the wreckage of an Air National Guard F-89 Scorpion that crashed in 1964 after taking off from K.I. Sawyer AFB, Mich. The pilot, who ejected safely, was with...

In a recent report, the Government Accountability Office says the Air Force needs to change its commercial acquisitions practices. GAO found that the while the DOD encouraged commercial acquisitions as a way to save money and increase competition, the Air...

Veterans Affairs Secretary James Nicholson joined other officials to break ground in Puerto Rico Oct. 2 for a new six-story tower at the southern tip of the San Juan VA Medical Center, according to a VA news release. The tower...

Oct. 3, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 16 7 23 CAS/Armed Recon 44 52 96 Airlift 130 130 Air refueling 34 34 Total 60 59 164 283 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance