Apparently the Air Force has placed Eielson AFB, Alaska, on its shortlist of beddown locations for the F-35 stealth fighter, along with Hill AFB, Utah, Moody AFB, Ga., Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, and Shaw AFB, S.C. Eglin AFB, Fla., is...
Failure on the part of an Air Force Special Operations Command instructor pilot to ensure “adequate time separation” between the PC-12 light transport aircraft that he was flying and a preceding AC-130 gunship led to the PC-12 flying into wake...
Airmen from the 33rd Rescue Squadron’s B Flight returned home to Kadena AB, Japan, on Oct. 6 after four months of operating out of Bagram AB, Afghanistan, in support of US and coalition operations in the Near East nation. Overall,...
The Air Force Research Lab intends to pursue technologies that will enable proactive defense of future cyber networks. According to a broad agency announcement that AFRL’s Information Directorate issued on Oct. 14, the lab has a pool of $49.9 million...
Last month, more than 85 airmen from 30 different Air Force bases came together to form the 320th Air Expeditionary Wing in Washington, D.C., to provide ceremonial support to the inauguration of the next President on Jan. 20, 2009. Maj....
Error on the part of the driver and safety observer transporting an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM on July 31 in Mountrail County, North Dakota for placement in a silo caused the missile transport vehicle to overturn, according to the newly...
Air Mobility Command officials say the construction of new dormitories for single airmen at Dover AFB, Del., MacDill AFB, Fla., and Scott AFB, Ill., is expected to be completed before 2010. These dorms are being built to the new “Dorms-4-Airmen”...
Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaOct. 13, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 28 15 43 10,382 CAS/Armed Recon 44 68 112 29,383 Airlift 121 121 37,144 Air refueling 51 51 14,501 Total 327 91,410...
