If New Hampshire Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D) has her way, the Air Force would put its new Cyber Command in an old abandoned Navy prison near Portsmouth. Shea-Porter told reporters May 2 that the reuse of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard...
The junior Senator from Louisiana, David Vitter (R) believes Barksdale Air Force Base may have the inside track on another prized new mission—host for the new Common Battlefield Airman Training facility, according to a May 5 report in the Shreveport...
The protest-plagued KC-135 programmed depot maintenance award to Boeing is still under scrutiny, but on May 2, the Government Accountability Office issued a decision that dismissed a portion of the latest protest by losing competitor Pemco Aeroplex (now Alabama Aircraft...
According to the Government Accountability Office, the US military has one too many interpretations of the terms “global strike” and “prompt global strike” and the Pentagon agrees. A newly issued GAO report to Congress cites confusion among key stakeholders, “particularly...
The last of the KC-135 tankers that were flown and maintained by Air Force Reserve Command’s 940th Air Refueling Wing at Beale AFB, Calif., have departed for a new home at Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C. The Appeal-Democrat reports that the...
With the F-117 Nighthawk barely off the tarmac, the airmen at Holloman AFB, N.M., are beginning the work to make way for the new F-22 Raptor. CMSgt. James Harris, chief of the 9th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, said one of the...
Airmen of Air Force Special Operations Command’s 353rd Special Operations Group at Kadena AB, Japan, on the island of Okinawa recently teamed with Royal Thai military forces for Exercise Teak Torch. The US airmen traveled to Udon Thani Air Base,...
The Civil Air Patrol, the one-of-a-kind Air Force Auxiliary, conducted damage assessment flights over Virginia in the aftermath of tornadoes that devastated an area in the southeastern portion of the state on April 28. The flights began the next day,...
A member of the famed World War II Flying Tigers, John Richard Rossi died April 17 of complications from pneumonia at age 92, according to an April 28 report in the Los Angeles Times. Rossi joined the Navy in 1939,...
Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaMay 1-3, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 67 32 99 3,559 CAS/Armed Recon 195 139 334 10,765 Airlift 453 453 15,817 Air refueling 152 152 4,973 Total 1,038 35,114...
