Luke Air Force Base in Arizona has just received the last of its F-16 fighters converted under the Common Configuration Implementation Program the Air Force initiated in 2001 and expects to complete fleet-wide by 2010. The intent of CCIP—directed at...
The Defense Department disagrees with a newly released Government Accountability Office report, in which GAO analysts again recommend that DOD establish a “single entity accountable for integrating efforts” with unmanned aerial systems. Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England last year stopped...
According to a Nov. 18 Pentagon release, the Bush Administration has nominated Maj. Gen. Harry Wyatt III to become the new head of the Air National Guard and receive a third star. Wyatt, who currently serves as the Oklahoma Adjutant...
The Warner Robins Air Logistics Center technicians working on the best way to remove and replace longerons in grounded F-15s have succeeded, even though removing a 12-foot long aluminum beam integral to the F-15’s structure is not supposed to be...
It’s not a question of if but when the older C-5A aircraft flown by the New York Air National Guard’s 105th Airlift Wing will fail, according to Maj. Gen. Robert Knauff, head of the NYANG. Knauff told MidHudsonNews.com that he...
The Air Force doesn’t want to waste the Army’s time when it comes to airmen partaking of Ranger training, so it runs its own mini-training course to ensure it sends “the best of the best to ranger training,” according to...
The Pennsylvania Air National Guard’s 171st Air Refueling Wing is supplying the current tanker force for the latest bomber rotation to Andersen AFB, Guam. The Air Guard unit arrived last month and will depart in January, but some individual airmen...
So says Army Col. Cynthia Murphy of the ongoing joint basing merger of McChord Air Force Base and Ft. Lewis in Washington. Murphy, who is the Ft. Lewis garrison commander, and Army Brig. Gen. Jeff Mathis, I Corps and Ft....
The Air Force sent it’s one and only Convair C-131 Total-In-Flight Simulator on its final flight earlier this month, this time to its new home at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. During its 30-year...
It’s not just NASA that works to generate space shuttle launches. The Air Force team has assets assigned from air patrols to search and rescue and launch range support. Before and during the Nov. 14 launch of space shuttle Endeavour,...
Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaNov. 16, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 29 13 42 11,764 CAS/Armed Recon 45 51 96 32,958 Airlift 140 140 41,720 Air refueling 42 42 16,146 Total 320 102,588...
