NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen blasted “Russia’s military aggression” in Crimea, during a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. Rasmussen said such actions are a violation of Ukraine’s territory and sovereignty and labeled the recent vote...
NATO officials condemned Russia’s illegal take-over of Ukraine’s Crimea region as Air Force F-16s began exercises in Poland on Tuesday, according to officials. “Crimea’s annexation is illegal and illegitimate and NATO Allies will not recognize it,” said NATO Secretary General...
Pararescueman SSgt. Thomas Culpepper was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with Valor Device for risking his life to rescue three soldiers in Afghanistan in 2011. Culpepper and an HH-60 Pave Hawk crew at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, scrambled to extricate a...
Two airmen assigned to the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Fla., were awarded the nation’s third and fourth highest combat military decorations for their actions in Afghanistan. TSgt. Michael Blout, a combat controller, received the Silver Star and...
If Congress prohibits the Air Force from divesting its fleet of A-10s, other cuts will have to be made in the bomber force as well as further F-16 retirements, a senior Air Staff official said. The Air Force will see...
If Congress allows the Air Force to divest its A-10 fleet, as the Fiscal 2015 budget proposes, the service will reapportion training and investments across a combat fleet already seasoned in the close air support mission, an Air Staff official...
Maj. Gen. James Jones, the Air Force’s top planner, told reporters at the Pentagon Tuesday that the service will continue to rely heavily on the Navy’s EA-18G Growlers and EA-6B Prowlers for stand-in jamming, as well as the Miniature Air...
The only thing left of the Air Force’s planned F-16 omnibus upgrade—to include the Common Avionics Programmed Extension Suite, or CAPES—is a structural upgrade to extend the type’s service life from 8,000 to 10,000 hours, the Air Force’s top programmer...
If the Air Force completely stopped flying its aircraft for two years it would only save enough money to pay for one year of sequestration, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh explained in a recent video message to airmen. In...
