The Air Force increased the airlift pace over the weekend as it transported Americans from Cyprus to Ramstein AB, Germany and on to the US, reports Stars and Stripes. Four C-17s deployed to Southwest Asia from Charleston AFB, S.C., took...

For the first time since the Kosovo crisis, McGuire AFB, N.J., is the first stopping point on US soil for Americans evacuees—the latest crop from Lebanon via Cyprus and Ramstein AB, Germany. According to the Newark Star-Ledger, more than 1,000...

Air Force Materiel Command’s Gen. Bruce Carlson paid a visit to Fort Walton Beach, Fla., on July 21, seeking to calm local fears over reports that the Air Force is planning to relocate Eglin’s 46th Test Wing to Edwards AFB,...

Buckley Looks at Civic Growth: The Air Force has informed officials of the city of Aurora, Colo., that plans to build civilian homes under the flight pattern used by the Colorado Air National Guard’s F-16s at Buckley Air Force Base...

Within days of action by the Senate Defense Appropriations Committee eliminating funding to keep 18 attrition reserve B-52s at Minot AFB, N.D., Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) struck a blow that would at least delay Air Force plans to retire any...

The Air Force plans to include billions of dollars in the upcoming five-year defense plan for a new long range strike platform, which DOD wants to see fielded by 2018, an unnamed defense official told Reuters news service. John Young,...

Munitions load crews at Langley AFB, Va., recently loaded the new GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb onto an operational F-22A Raptor—marking another first for the new stealth fighter. The fit test, conducted by members of the 27th Aircraft Maintenance Unit and...

The Louisiana Air National Guard’s 159th Fighter Wing has received a digital upgrade—with the arrival of F-15Cs handed down from the active duty Air Force, reports Associated Press news service. The C models are replacing analog-electronics A models. In addition...

A delegation from the Adjutants General Association of the United States met last week with leaders of US Northern Command at Peterson AFB, Colo., to establish a new working relationship for homeland security and civil assistance efforts. Maj. Gen. Craig...

Air Force Space Command plans to induct six space visionaries into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame at a ceremony scheduled for Aug. 24. The inductees are retired Air Force officers: Col. Wilbert F. Craig III,...

Northrop Grumman has delivered the first F-35 Lightning II integrated communications, navigation, and identification system ahead of schedule. The CNI system will provide more than 40 functions to F-35 pilots via the software-defined radios that enable “simultaneous support for dozens...

July 21-23, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 39 23 62 CAS/Armed Recon 132 70 202 Airlift 490 490 Air refueling 119 119 Total 171 93 609 873 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance