In testifying before Congress, Marine Corps Gen. James L. Jones, Supreme Allied Command Europe and head of US European Command, complained that fixing the lack of strategic airlift capability within NATO is “a 10- to 12-year project.” Jones said that...

The commander of US European Command told lawmakers that cutting personnel by more than a third—from 114,000 troops to 71,000—will not hamper EUCOM’s capability. Marine Corps Gen. James L. Jones said that the 71,000 will be “better positioned, better capable,...

Congress has been told repeatedly at hearings over the past two weeks that the C-17 is being ridden hard. That also means there’ll be an increase in depot work. Officials at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Georgia told the...

The Air Armament Center at Eglin AFB, Fla., believes the 14-foot, 2,250 pound Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile is “an incredible piece of technology” that answers the airman’s call for an affordable standoff cruise missile, reports AAC journalist SSgt. Ryan Hansen. Its range is more than 200 nautical miles, and it can operate in virtually any type of weather, using its inertial navigation and GPS to find targets and infrared seeker “for pinpoint accuracy,” says Hansen. Next up is the extended range JASSM, which Lt. Col. Stephen Davis, JASSM Block 2 Squadron commander, says will deliver its “knock-out punch from more than twice as far away.” (Read more here.)

Applications to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., have dropped again for the fourth year after a post-9/11 peak. This year’s decline was two percent, with a total of 1,260 cadets accepted from an application pool of 9,200...

Air mobility airmen are honing their battlefield skills in increasing numbers at the Air Mobility Warfare Center at Ft. Dix, N.J., where Air Mobility Command focuses its advanced education, training, and testing activities. Disciplines at the school are divided up...

Lawyers representing a group of active and retired Air Force officers are seeking to change the original complaint to include the Air Force’s recently revised religious guidelines. According to Associated Press news service, the litigants claim that the revised rules...

For the first time, members of the Philippine Air Force have been attending Airman Leadership School at Hickam AFB, Hawaii. It’s part of a training process to enable the PAF to create its own formal leadership program. Four instructor/students and...

An intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance capability initiative that would electronically transmit information to commanders is being tested at the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment 2006 at Nellis AFB, Nev. The new process would allow non-traditional ISR (NTISR) services to flow directly from aircraft to...

USAF medics with the 447th Expeditionary Medical Squadron at Sather AB, Iraq, ply their expertise several times a week outside the base, treating patients at the Radhwaniya Medical Clinic Outreach Program building. The Air Force medical personnel and other volunteers...

The Guam Initial Response Readiness Exercise, an island-wide program that teams Pacific Air Force’s 36th Wing at Andersen AFB, Guam, with Naval Base Guam, kicked off in 2005 to coordinate training on war plan deployments and joint disaster response efforts....

Medical specialists, doctors, and dentists from PACAF recently wrapped up several weeks of work in remote Cambodia, where they visited rural villages and treated thousands of patients. PACAF personnel screened 13,000 patients and treated approximately 3,500 during their visit to...

The commander of the DOD Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recently touted the organization’s work to identify remains of Army Air Corps Aviation Cadet Leo Mustonen—known as the “glacier airman.” The JPAC recently confirmed identification of remains that were spotted last...

March 9, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 14 5 – 19 CAS/Armed Recon 36 22 – 58 Airlift – – 120 120 Air refueling – – 33 33 Total 50 27 153 230 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation...