Air Force Reserve Command’s 93rd Bomb Squadron and 917th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron earned four of the five top team awards at their first appearance in a BUFF Smoke combat skills competition, the most recent held earlier this month at Barksdale...
The Air Force is now conducting about 46 percent of all the explosive ordnance disposal missions in Afghanistan since the service expanded it EOD role in that theater to meet a rise in roadside bomb threats. Airmen of the 755th...
Alabama’s Senatorial delegation has directed a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates urging him—now that he’s going to be on the Obama team—to “move forward without undue delay” to “craft a new acquisition strategy” for the KC-X tanker replacement program....
While avoiding any definitive judgment on the doctrinal conflicts and mission authority between the Army and Air Force over unmanned aerial vehicle operations, US Joint Forces Command’s deputy commander, Vice Adm. Robert Harward, told defense reporters Tuesday in Washington that...
In his first visit to the Air Force’s unmanned aerial vehicle operations and training center at Creech AFB, Nev., Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz commented on the “game-changing capability” that UAVs provide, saying that “it’s no surprise that these...
According to a bipartisan commission of five Democrats and four Republicans working on a short timeline to review and recommend ways to prevent the spread and terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction, “our margin of safety against WMD terrorism...
According to Vice Adm. Robert Harward, US Joint Forces Command deputy commander, the command’s recently released Joint Operating Environment (call it JOE) 2008, which focuses on threats facing the US military over the next 25 years, drew much of its...
The Air Force has awarded a Bronze Star medal to SMSgt. Randal Williams for his actions on a year-long deployment to Iraq. Williams, who is superintendent of the 437th Force Support Squadron Military Personnel Flight at Charleston AFB, S.C., received...
The item in Monday’s Daily Report column on President-elect Obama’s selection of retired Army Gen. Eric Shinseki to head Veterans Affairs has been corrected. Shinseki served a full four-year tour as Army Chief of Staff.
Dec. 14-15, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 63 15 78 12,903 CAS/Armed Recon 90 124 214 35,829 Airlift 260 260 45,185 Air refueling 96 96 17,387 Total 648 111,309 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance...
