C-17 and Tanker Collide: The commander of Hickam AFB, Hawaii, Col. William J. Changose was piloting a C-17 when the airlifter and a Hawaii Air National Guard KC-135 tanker collided during refueling training some 200 miles off the island of...

Pacific Air Forces now is slated to get the first of eight new C-17 airlifters in early February and officials tell the Honolulu Advertiser that it will immediately go to work for training flights and maintenance familiarization. After the first...

During a recent visit to Europe, new Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne gave an interesting response to a question from a reporter for Stars and Stripes. The question concerned production of the F-22 Raptor. The Pentagon recently capped production at...

A defense industry meeting in New York City earlier this month offered dire comments from DOD officials and industry executives as to the future state of defense budgets. According to a Dec. 27 New York Times replay, Ryan Henry, the...

The 30th Space Wing, Vandenberg AFB, Calif., has officially activated a major portion of the new Western Range Operations Control Center—the Area Control Center. The first operation for the new ACC, which handles clearances for both aeronautical operations off the...

The Air Force has hired former USA Today reporter Dave Moniz as part of a revamping of its internal and external communications function. Moniz is serving as a senior public affairs adviser, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Air...

She is the Air National Guard assistant to the commander of Air Education and Training Command and now Maj. Gen. LaRita Aragon. Aragon, who was the first woman to reach star rank in the Oklahoma ANG, received her second star...

SrA. James D. Harris at Travis AFB, Calif., died from injuries he received after falling while working on the Travis flight line, reports KTXL TV in Fairfield, Calif. Harris was a member of the 660th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Travis....

Coalition strike aircraft continued to pound insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past few days. According to US Central Command Air Forces, on Dec. 23, USAF F-16s provided close air support for troops near Bayji and Al Hawijah, Iraq,...

Northrop Grumman has flight tested the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node—an Internet-based communications relay and information server that, flying at extremely high altitude, extends the range of line-of-sight radios to relay data to airborne and surface-based units. It can even link,...

The joint NOAA and DOD National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite system has raised the ire of Congress, as one of many space programs that appear to have gone off the rails. It has Congressional auditors worrying about a possible weather...

Gordon England may only be Acting Deputy Defense Secretary (Congress is still hung up on his nomination), but President Bush just named him as first in line at DOD should something untoward happen to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. A White...

Those RED HORSE engineers at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, are still at it. When they aren’t repairing the old airfield, they are building additions. They have a $7 million construction project in hand, one part of which is construction by early...

Two USAF C-130s and one C-17 flew more than 61,000 pounds of supplies to Pakistan from Dec. 16-23. That brings the total USAF airlift effort to more than 10 million pounds of relief supplies, flown in by 51 C-130, 45...

Albert L. Weimorts, a civilian engineer with the Air Force Research Lab’s Munitions Directorate, Eglin AFB, Fla., died of brain cancer on Dec. 21 in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. He was 67. AFRL officials credit Weimorts, who retired from the...

Air Force medics have taken over from Army medical personnel to support the Radwaniya Civil Military Operations Center, which serves Iraqis living to the south and west of Baghdad. Members of the 447th Expeditionary Medical Squadron, Sather AB, Iraq, began...

December 26, 2005 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 13 4 – 17 CAS/Armed Recon 38 19 – 57 Airlift – – 190 190 Air refueling – – 18 18 Total 51 23 208 282 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation...