The National Guard Bureau announced yesterday that up to 50,000 Guard personnel can be called up, if necessary, to help civil responders deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav (now a tropical depression that, as of midday Sept. 2, was...
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Monday praised members of the Air National Guard and their Army Guard brethren for their efforts in preparing for the onslaught of then-Hurricane Gustav that hit the Gulf Coast that same day. Among their...
A just-completed coalition forces’ investigation into an air strike on targets in the Afghan town of Azizabad in Herat province on Aug. 22 supports US military assertions that the attack did not kill scores of civilians as some Afghan and...
The office of the Pentagon’s weapon czar, John Young, issued a request to industry last month for information on commercial and international space radar systems—both planned and existing—that may be leveraged by the US military to meet its surveillance needs....
A tornado emanating from the storm front surrounding Hurricane Gustav slammed into parts of Eglin AFB, Fla., Sept. 1, damaging homes and the base’s child development center. The funnel cloud touched down at about 9:45 a.m. local time on a...
Air Force C-130s and C-17s, along with Navy transport aircraft, have flown 62 missions to Georgia since Aug. 13, delivering humanitarian aid, Pentagon officials said yesterday. Further, two ships, the USS McFaul and Coast Guard Cutter Dallas, have delivered 1,138...
Officials, past and present, involved in the Air Force’s tactical exploitation of national capabilities program recently gathered at Schriever AFB, Colo., to celebrate the program’s three decades of successes. TENCAP was born in 1977 as a small, outside-the-box organization to...
A C-17 transport from McChord AFB, Wash., later this month will deliver aid provided by a local non-profit project in the area around Tacoma and Olympia, Wash., to the Mexican city of Ayutla, in that country’s Jalisco state. Tacoma’s News...
Brig. Gen. Darrell Jones and his wife Holly have won the 2008 General and Mrs. Jerome O’Malley award. This honor recognizes the couple’s contributions to the nation and their local community when Jones commanded the 37th Training Wing at Lackland...
This Thursday, former B-17 pilot Harold Rochette, 89, will set foot inside a Flying Fortress again—more than 60 years since his last bombing mission—and ride as an honored passenger in a flight from Stewart International Airport, in Newburgh, N.Y., to...
