The Air Force announced Wednesday that Lackland AFB, Tex., will be the permanent headquarters location for 24th Air Force, the new numbered air force being established under Air Force Space Command to lead the service’s cyber operations. USAF identified Lackland...
The Air Force has tasked Northrop Grumman to outfit two of the RQ-4 Global Hawk block 20 unmanned aerial vehicles that the company has built for the service with the communications-relay technology known as BACN to meet a joint urgent...
The 508th Aerospace Sustainment Wing and the 84th Combat Sustainment Wing at Hill AFB, Utah, will be merged into one unit in the coming months. Ogden’s Standard-Examiner reported yesterday that the 84th CSW will join the 508th ASW, thereby consolidating...
Within the Obama Administration’s $664 billion budget request for the Defense Department in Fiscal 2010, funding for classified programs has crept upward, despite high-profile weapons cancellations pushed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, concludes the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments...
Lt. Gen. Charles Green became the Air Force’s 20th surgeon general Wednesday during a swearing-in ceremony at the Pentagon presided over by Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz. Green, who has been the deputy surgeon general since August 2006, replaces...
Members of the first class of the US Air Force Academy’s unmanned aircraft system and intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance education program received their wings Aug. 11 during a ceremony at the institution in Colorado Springs, Colo. “You are pioneers,” Brig. Gen. Dana Born,...
The Air Force First Sergeants Academy, part of Air University at Maxwell AFB, Ala., is developing a monument that will be built at the base’s Enlisted Heritage Hall museum to honor the work and dedication of Air Force first sergeants....
Officials with Air Force Reserve Command’s 315th Airlift Wing at Charleston AFB, S.C., recently held a ceremony to rededicate Building 60 on the base in memory of TSgt. Carl Church, an airman who died in 1974. Church, a native of...
Airmen of the Connecticut Air National Guard’s 103rd Airlift Wing, the Flying Yankees, at Bradley ANG Base in East Granby left last month on a deployment to Southwest Asia, the unit’s first overseas stint with its new C-21 transports. The...
Boeing on Tuesday delivered the first of Qatar’s C-17 transports to the Middle East nation’s air force during a ceremony at the company’s facility in Long Beach, Calif. Qatar signed a contract with Boeing in July 2008 for two C-17s,...
Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaAug. 10, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 26 24 50 9,414 CAS/Armed Recon 10 73 83 21,223 Airlift 130 130 28,961 Air refueling 49 49 10,310 Total 312 69,908...
