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The number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads and launchers in the US inventory sank in the most recent six-month reporting period, according to the newest US-Russian data exchange required by the New START agreement. Meanwhile, Russia’s inventory grew. As of...

The Air Force Sustainment Center “has documented improvements” of $786.7 million through savings and cost-avoidance measures in Fiscal 2013, AFSC Commander Lt. Gen. Bruce Litchfield told the Daily Report. According to a new white paper authored by Litchfield, AFSC accomplished...

The first three F-16s assigned to the newly minted 54th Fighter Group at Holloman AFB, N.M., arrived to begin standing up the new F-16 Formal Training Unit there. The fighters touched down in April 1, according to a base release....

A pair of B-52s from Barksdale AFB, La., and a brace of B-2s from Whiteman AFB, Mo., flew non-stop from their respective home stations on long-range, power-projection training sorties to Hawaii, announced US Strategic Command. The bombers conducted a variety...

Air Force Reserve Command’s 910th Airlift Wing inactivated its 773rd Airlift Squadron at Youngstown ARS, Ohio. The standdown ceremony took place on April 6, according to a wing release. A wing spokesman told the Daily Report on Monday that the...

The family of a one-year-old girl who grew seriously ill on the family's sailboat in the Pacific Ocean is now aboard the USS Vandegrift, a Navy frigate, transiting to San Diego, according to a Navy release. On April 3, four pararescuemen from the California Air National Guard's 129th Rescue Wing parachuted to the aid of the girl as the family found itself about 900 nautical miles west of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, according to a unit release. They stayed with the family and tended to the girl, deciding to stay with her until she reached a medical facility capable of treating her. A planned helicopter rescue was subsequently called off as the girl's condition stabilized, reported the San Jose Mercury News. The Navy then dispatched the Vandegrift to retrieve the San Diego-based family, whose 36-foot-long sailboat, the Rebel Heart, had lost power and was unsteerable. The family left Mexico on March 20, headed for Polynesia to fulfill a longtime goal of sailing around the world.

The 376th Air Expeditionary Wing recently inactivated its medical group and aircraft maintenance squadron as part of its activities to vacate the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, by July. The 376th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, which was responsible for maintaining...

Nine C-17 airlifters from JB Charleston, S.C., air-dropped pallets and paratroopers from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division in a massive joint-force deployment drill. “The exercise provided more than 500 operational and maintenance training objectives,” said Capt. Rob Cross of Charleston’s...

Brig. Gen. Joe Vazquez will be the Civil Air Patrol’s next national commander and chief executive officer, announced CAP officials. CAP’s Board of Governors selected Vazquez from a pool of 10 applicants, states the organization’s April 4 release. He will...

Marking the largest single corporate gift to the Smithsonian, Boeing is donating $30 million to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum to support an extensive renovation of the museum’s main hall, the “Milestones of Flight” gallery, and broadened educational...

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