The Air Force’s decision to cap its fleet of MQ-1/MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft at 65 combat air patrols was made in part due to tightening budgets, but also to ensure that there is a healthy balance between the intelligence-collecting RPA...
Air Forces Central activated the 82nd Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, near the Iraqi border, to coordinate tactical air control party and weather support of Army ground forces. “The Army has a ground reaction force here...
Four Airmen received the 2011 Lance P. Sijan Leadership Award during a ceremony in the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes. Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz hosted the April 6 event, presenting the award to: Maj. Laura DeJong, criminal investigations policy...
Air Education and Training Command’s enlisted corps inducted retired Maj. Gen. Alfred Flowers into the Order of the Sword—the highest honor the enlisted force can bestow on an officer—during a ceremony at JBSA-Randolph, Tex. “Without question, what General Flowers has...
Some Active Duty airmen may be eligible for early retirement as part of the service’s ongoing force-shaping measures. Enlisted airmen who will have 15 years to 19 years of service in Fiscal 2012 and are in the grades of staff...
Air Force Reserve Command’s 709th Airlift Squadron at Dover AFB, Del., flew its final C-5B Galaxy sortie, as it changes over to all C-5M Super Galaxies. “Many of the Reservists here at Dover have flown all [C-5] variants and will...
Escorted by F-16s and F-22s, B-1 bombers from Ellsworth AFB, S.D., flew a 10-hour strike sortie against heavily defended practice targets on the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex. “The objective of this operation was to validate the long-range strike capability...
Airmen used an MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft launched from Holloman AFB, N.M., to help locate missing kayakers in the Gila National Forest near the base. This was the first time that an RPA was allowed to operate outside of...
While 10 years of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq have turned US special operations forces into a battle-hardened cadre, there is some concern that some SOF core competencies like languages and regional expertise for other parts of the world have...
