Defense Secretary Robert Gates earlier today recommended that President Bush nominate Michael Donley to be the next Secretary of the Air Force and Gen. Norton Schwartz to serve as the next Chief of Staff. Donley is presently director of administration...
Outgoing Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley announced June 6 that Air Force Reserve Command’s 301st Fighter Squadron will transfer its flag to Holloman AFB, N.M., from Luke AFB, Ariz., to operate the F-22 fighter together with the...
Gen. Michael Moseley, Chief of Staff, announced June 6 the return of the missile badge with operations designator for ICBM crews. Further, USAF’s three Minuteman III ballistic missile wings, which were redesignated as space wings in 1997, will revert to...
In the wake of last week’s Air Force leadership shakeup, Defense Secretary Robert Gates will travel to Langley AFB, Va., and Peterson, AFB, Colo., today and tomorrow to personally drive home the message for greater accountability and rigor in nuclear...
John Young, the Pentagon’s weapons czar, said June 5 he would not be comfortable in cutting the Air Force’s planned buy of F-35 joint strike fighters to buy more F-22s. “Any decision to buy more F-22s at the expense of...
While the lessons learned from the crash of a B-2 bomber in February aren’t applicable to the Air Force’s other stealth platforms, the F-22 and F-35 fighters, there are “other systems being deployed” that will benefit from the insights, Maj....
In Sangin, Afghanistan, on June 5, a B-1B bomber struck enemy combatants with 500-pound and 2,000-pound joint direct attack munitions, and an MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle attacked with a 500-pound laser-guided bomb, Air Forces Central announced June 6. They were...
After 50 years of protecting the Texas Gulf Coast, the Texas Air National Guard’s 147th Fighter Wing has conducted its final F-16 mission. Houston’s KHOU TV News 11 reported June 7 that the last two of the wing’s Vipers flew...
Hanscom AFB, Mass., home to the Electronic Systems Center, will serve as a major host site for the coalition warrior interoperability demonstration that begins today and runs through June 20. The annual Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-sponsored event...
Lockheed Martin head Robert Stevens told a European audience last week that companies on either side of the Atlantic cannot hide behind protectionist measures if they expect to remain viable on the global market. “Protectionism is not now, and has...
Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaJune 4-5, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 49 22 71 4,650 CAS/Armed Recon 126 108 234 13,918 Airlift 284 284 19,821 Air refueling 115 115 6,423 Total 704 44,812...
