During his stop Aug. 4 at Eielson AFB, Alaska, President Bush was primed for the 354th Fighter Wing, asking up front “Iceman Team: Ready to Go?” Assembled airmen on cue replied, “At 50 below!” In his brief remarks, Bush praised...
For the third time, a SpaceX Falcon 1 launch vehicle failed; this one did not reach orbit after liftoff Aug. 2 from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific. It carried two small NASA satellites and the DOD Operationally Responsive Space microsatellite...
The airmen of the New York Air National Guard’s 105th Airlift Wing may be in line to trade their Vietnam War-era behemoth C-5A airlifters for the new C-17 transport, at least that’s the thinking of some state officials. The Times...
One of the lingering questions that we have had over the firing of USAF’s leadership exactly two months ago today is how Defense Secretary Robert Gates could claim that then-Secretary Michael Wynne and retired Gen. Michael Moseley, then Chief of...
According to one Air National Guard official, the change last fall that put all airfield operations officer training with the Air Guard has produced “a successful partnership.” Scott Duke, chief of National Guard Air Traffic Services, said the two-year program...
Air Force Reserve Command and the active Air Force have merged operations of two more command posts, these at Pope AFB, N.C. The process to create such joint operations at various bases began more than a year ago when AFRC’s...
The Air Force has dispatched scores of airmen—active, Air National Guard, and Air Force Reserve—to numerous locales recently to participate in humanitarian outreach programs. These activities include the recently concluded MEDFLAG 08 in Mali, where an Aviano AB, Italy-led team...
Military officials broke ground last month for the new consolidated Medical Education and Training Campus at Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio, where DOD plans to centralize training for all enlisted military medical training. According to a July 31 release,...
Airmen and other service members at Ali Base, Iraq, lost one of their military working dogs, Goro, when he died of natural causes July 28. Goro, an eight-year-old German Shepherd, was on his sixth tour in the combat zone. His...
Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaAug. 3, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 25 12 37 6,737 CAS/Armed Recon 54 69 123 19,820 Airlift 144 144 27,008 Air refueling 62 62 9,583 Total 366 63,148...
