An Air Force Vision for UAVs: The Air Force has released a new 34-page document intended to guide the development and integration of its unmanned aerial vehicle fleet for the next quarter century. Among its many recommendations is the need...

The Hawaii Air National Guard’s 199th Fighter Squadron operates its F-15 fighters out of a facility built when the unit flew F-86s some 50 years ago. Since the squadron is getting the newest USAF fighter, the F-22A, it plans to...

Land Grab at March Stirs Hornets Nest: The City of Riverside, Calif., would like to siphon off some 4,300 acres that is part of the former March Air Force Base and the news doesn’t sit well with the other communities...

Travis Unit Flies Last C-5 Flights: The 21st Airlift Squadron at Travis AFB, Calif., has flown its last flight abroad in the huge C-5 airlifter and will make its last local flight this week. The squadron and Air Force Reserve...

Senior officials of the active duty 60th Air Mobility Wing and AFRC 394th AMW at Travis AFB, Calif., recently experienced a unique thrill—they drove in the final rivets on a new C-17 airlifter destined for Travis. Brig. Gen. Thomas Gizler...

Barksdale Hogs Get Top Honor: Pilots of the 47th Fighter Squadron from Barksdale AFB, La., won the Top Bombing Team award over the weekend at Hawgsmoke 2006—the biennial competition between A-10 Warthog pilots from around the world taking place at...

News Not So Optimistic?: According to Associated Press news service, the British optimism over negotiations with the US to gain access to more technology data on the Joint Strike Fighter could be wishful thinking. Last week, a British spokesman indicated...

US Air Force logisticians have been instructing Afghan National Army personnel in the fine art of supply management, graduating the first 10 personnel last week. According to the Bagram Bullet, the airmen have broken new ground with this first-of-its-kind course...

The United Kingdom has sent several RAF pilots and their Tornado fighters to Utah’s Hill Air Force Base, where they’ve been flying an average of 12 air-to-ground sorties a day on the Utah Test and Training Range, reports KUTV and...

Airmen forming a detachment of C-17 crew management specialists have taken Spangdahlem AB, Germany, home to a new C-17 airlift unit, the 726th Air Mobility Squadron, into the world of one-stop en route mission planning—making airlift preparation go a lot...

A fuel leak fire ended the space launch of the Air Force Academy’s FalconSat-2 satellite. Launch of the SpaceX aerospace firm’s Falcon1 rocket ended seconds into its flight from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific last Friday. The launch—first for SpaceX...

Air Force Space Command and Lockheed Martin officials gathered at Schriever AFB, Colo., recently to celebrate 50 years of cumulative operation for the Global Positioning System Block IIR. “Millions of people around the world can use GPS because of the...

Joint Forces Command released an unclassified version of a two-year-in-the-making report of Operation Iraqi Freedom from the viewpoint of Saddam Hussein and his military leaders. It’s the first report of its kind, said JFCOM officials, since World War II. A...

Leo Bach, a 24-year-old first lieutenant in the Army Air Forces when he bailed out of his B-17 in April 1944, finally received his Purple Heart at Travis AFB, Calif., on March 21 during a formal ceremony. Bach had received...

March 24 and 26, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 26 7 33 CAS/Armed Recon 100 32 132 Airlift 365 365 Air refueling 70 70 Total 126 39 435 600 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance