Daily Report

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called on the non-US alliance members to boost their arsenals of remotely piloted vehicles, overhead intelligence platforms, transports, and aerial refuelers in order to reduce the capability and capacity gap between the United States...

Iraq’s government renewed its interest in procuring F-16 fighters, with Iraqi officials reportedly raising the topic in discussion this week during Air Force Secretary Michael Donley’s visit to Iraq. Donley’s meeting with Iraqi officials “was intended to speed up the...

Military bases across the United States are boosting security in advance of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta raised the force-protection levels on Wednesday, mostly for military installations in the United States, after receiving...

One of the Air Force’s Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2011, SSgt. Jordan S. Bishopp is an explosive ordnance disposal craftsman with the 377th EOD Flight at Kirtland AFB, N.M. On his third deployment, this one to Afghanistan, Bishopp...

An aircrew with the 23rd Bomb Squadron at Minot AFB, N.D., became the first to fly a B-52H bomber over the North Pole. “The flight was actually quite unusual because no one has ever done it before,” said Maj. Patrick...

Representatives from Air Force Space Command, Air Mobility Command, Air Force Materiel Command, and Air Combat Command gathered for three days at Scott AFB, Ill., to discuss the High Frequency Global Communications System and identify improvements for introducing updates and...

All of the B-1B bomber fleet’s different tail flashes recently were visible on the flight line at Dyess AFB, Tex., marking the first time that they were at the same base at the same time since the consolidation of the...

A 47-year-old C-130E, one of the Air Force's oldest Hercules aircraft and the veteran of a harrowing rescue decades ago, landed for the last time at Robins AFB, Ga., for display at the adjacent Museum of Aviation. Aircraft # 63-7868 arrived at Robins on Tuesday, reported the Macon Telegraph. On Nov. 23, 1964, this aircraft was among the C-130s that participated in Operation Dragon Rouge to rescue 2,000 western hostages held by rebels in Stanleyville in the former Republic of the Congo. Damaged by rebel fire departing Stanleyville, aircraft # 63-7868 continued 800 miles on three engines, delivering its passengers to safety and earning its crew the MacKay Trophy for the most meritorious flight of that year. Previously assigned to the 314th Airlift Wing at Little Rock AFB, Ark., this C-130E is the museum's second Hercules variant, joining an AC-130 gunship already on display. (See also Museum of Aviation release)

Airman Magazine, the Air Force’s official publication, will disappear from coffee tables across the service after this month due to budget cuts to all four services’ magazines. September’s issue, which highlights changes to the force since the 9/11 terrorist attacks,...

The Marine Corps is getting even closer to fielding an unmanned cargo helicopter that will be used to resupply marines in remote battlefields. The Lockheed Martin-KAMAN team successfully completed a five-day quick-reaction assessment, which proved that the K-MAX unmanned helo...