The first of three planned Air Force C-130 flights with supplies to aid the Burmese survivors of Tropical Cyclone Nagris arrived at Yangon International Airport in Rangoon May 12. The aircraft, which flew in from Utapao Thai Royal Navy Air...
Canada and the US yesterday (May 12) celebrated the 50th anniversary of the signing of the NORAD agreement with a golden jubilee ball in Colorado Springs, Colo. US Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Canadian Minister of National Defence Peter...
Afghanistan continued to be the hot spot for airstrikes May 11 in US Central Command’s area of responsibility, according to Air Forces Central. On that day, F-15Es hit enemy combatants and their fighting positions with a 500-pound laser-guided bomb, 500-pound...
SSgt. Jay Rosenberry, an F-16 crew chief with the Arizona National Guard’s 162nd Fighter Wing at Tucson International Airport, received the Coast Guard Silver Lifesaving Medal in April for saving the lives of his two children and another child in...
The Air Force has chosen Balad AB, Iraq, to be the test site for a weapons pre-positioning initiative that is projected to reduce the service’s transportation costs by about $1.3 million annually. Under the concept, M9 pistols and M16s rifles...
Omni Medical Systems, Inc., a firm headquartered in Milton, Vt., has developed a system called the Advanced Mission Extender Device that reportedly allows military pilots flying long missions to easily relieve their bladders rather than not urinating for painfully long...
The Air Mobility Battlelab, together with Jadoo Power Systems, has developed a new portable, lightweight power-supply device to run medical equipment on flight transferring wounded military personnel. Dubbed the portable electronic power supply for aeromedical evacuations, or PEPSAE, the system...
Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaMay 10, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 25 11 36 3,760 CAS/Armed Recon 74 54 128 11,305 Airlift 157 157 16,516 Air refueling 50 50 5,231 Total 371 36,812...
