Just after telling Reuters news service that it would make the CSAR-X contract award next month, the Air Force has once more delayed a decision on the award—now pushed up to November, reports Gannett News Service. The reason given: The...
The Air Force has formally named Eglin AFB, Fla., as the training site for the new F-35 Lightning II and begun an environmental impact analysis. USAF officials let this cat out of the bag almost a year ago, so we...
The US military aircraft boarded by antiwar protestors at Scotland’s Glasgow-Prestwick airport was a C-130 from the Delaware Air National Guard. Various news reports say no US personnel were on board the cargo aircraft at the time of the “attack.”...
Boeing showed off the ability of the TSAT (transformational satellite) communications spacecraft to work well with other transformational systems to military program officials and representatives from the Air Force and US Strategic Command. The demo worked through simulated “blockages due...
An Air Force C-17, flying at 32,000 feet, air dropped a 65-foot, 72,000-pound simulated Falcon Small Launch Vehicle, marking the longest and heaviest single object to be dropped from a C-17, breaking the record set in June during the second...
Rather than provide individual credit monitoring for the millions of veterans and military members whose personal data might have been compromised by the infamous May 3 data theft, Veteran Affairs has contracted ID Analytics of California to conduct industry analysis...
A Bronze Star has gone to A1C Kevin Ingerick from Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, for his quick life-saving actions during a convoy mission in Iraq. While under enemy fire, Ingerick helped US forces kill six insurgents and pulled a driver...
Some of the latest generation of USAF African-American airmen recently flew nine members of the first generation, the famed World War II Tuskegee Airmen, aboard a C-17 appropriately named “The Spirit of the Tuskegee Airmen.” Airmen from Air Force Reserve...
There is an “America Supports You” program that helps active duty, Guard, and Reserve veterans transition to jobs in the construction industry. Defense officials say the “Helmets to Hardhats” program has “matched about 40,000” veterans with apprenticeships in construction unions...
The Pentagon was quick to quell media reports that the US now plans to make a much larger cut to American forces in South Korea, dropping well below the previously announced 25,000 troops. A press release says “around 25,000.” According...
The Vermont Air National Guard’s 158th Fighter Wing will be spending much of the fall in New Hampshire, sharing facilities with ANG’s 157th Air Refueling Wing at Pease Air National Guard Station. The Air Guard is having runway repairs done...
A group of 250 airmen and 14 F-16 Viper aircraft from the 52nd Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem AB, Germany, are in Romania for a three-week multilateral exercise that will give airmen the chance to practice low flying skills, reports Stars...
Aug. 9, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 17 8 25 CAS/Armed Recon 45 23 68 Airlift 160 160 Air refueling 40 40 Total 62 31 200 293 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance