Air Education and Training Command has activated a dedicated C-130 Hercules training unit—the 714th Training Squadron—at Little Rock AFB, Ark. The new unit received its first commander, Lt. Col. Thomas Anderson, last week and will comprise 42 military and civilian...

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm hopes to snag the new Joint Cargo Aircraft mission for the state’s Air National Guard unit at Battle Creek, the 110th Fighter Wing. She is joining a growing list of state governors who are trying to...

Connecticut apparently is wary of a Pentagon suggestion that it would locate a unit of the new Joint Cargo Aircraft with the Air National Guard’s 103rd Fighter Wing at Bradley Airport, according to the Associated Press news service. Gov. Jodi...

It now appears the Air Force is working with the Army to try to get Senate authorizers to restore funding the Senate Armed Services Committee cut for the Joint Cargo Aircraft, reports the Congressional newspaper The Hill. The Senate panel...

Senate and House conferees agreed late last week to hold the Fiscal 2006 supplemental appropriations for the war on terror and hurricane recovery to $94.5 billion—more than the House proposed, but much less than the Senate version. The President had...

At a special hearing called by Rep. Steve Buyer, chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, information security experts from industry told lawmakers that it is not too late to fix the problems at Veterans Affairs that led to a...

The Air Force force-shaping efforts for 2006 came home with a vengeance for two airmen at Robins AFB, Ga., recently who were told they must leave the service by October, reports the Macon Telegraph. The two happen to be married...

The Air Force has converted its first group of non-union civilian employees to the new National Security Personnel System, which is still embroiled in a legal dispute with unions. An NSPS official said last week that the process to convert...

DOD has confirmed the identification of remains for two Army Air Forces airmen—2nd Lt. Robert H. Cameron of Elkhart, Ind., and Cpl. George E. Cunningham of Rich Hill, N.Y.—whose C-47 aircraft went down on Dec. 10, 1944, after it took...

Two F-15E crew chiefs with the 379th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron in Southwest Asia recently received Flightline Safety Awards for their quick action in saving other airmen and a multimillion dollar F-15E Strike Eagle. The Desert Eagle reports that SSgt. Victor Babuta and SrA. James Clark, both from Seymour-Johnson AFB, N.C., were faced with a potentially explosive situation when they began to check out a problem reported by the aircrew of an F-15E just returned from a sortie. The crew chiefs saw smoke and smelled fumes, but before they could get the engine shut down, there was a loud pop and saw a flash fire. They immediately shut down the engine, and one ducked under the aircraft to reach and put out the fire, which was dangerously close to a live bomb.

Air Force Special Operations Command asked Air Force Materiel Command after the 2004 hurricane season to help it create an online emergency operations site. It had found that some 12,500 personnel overtaxed the single toll-free phone number for Hurlburt AFB,...

June 7, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 15 5 20 CAS/Armed Recon 54 23 77 Airlift 150 150 Air refueling 36 36 Total 69 28 186 283 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance