The latest recruiting and retention data show that the Air National Guard has exceeded its monthly recruiting goal for July by five percent, marking the third straight month ANG has topped its monthly goals. However, the Air Guard’s average so...

To aid its efforts to “shape” the force, USAF has decreased by nine percent the number of new enlisted recruits it will accept in 2007 as compared to the previous year. The service plans to recruit 27,760 basic trainees, but...

A new data collection system allows Air Force engineers to track missile cues on the F-22A Raptor’s internal missile stations. Previously, data couldn’t be recorded from air-to-air missiles to the ground receiving site while the missile was still in the...

TSgt. Ruben Vasquez with the 36th Medical Operations Squadron at Andersen AFB, Guam, has received the Bronze Star for his work as an independent medic with a 12-man military transition team operating in Iraq. Vazquez had 12 hours notice before...

Air Force Special Operations Command presented MSgt. David Halvorson a Bronze Star for his work in Southwest Asia as maintenance production superintendent for MH-53 Pave Low helicopters. Halvorson led 56 airmen from 11 career fields to maintain the four MH-53s,...

Holloman AFB, N.M., this year hosted the air-to-air Weapon Systems Evaluation Program, welcoming airmen from Tyndall AFB, Fla., Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, and Kadena AB, Japan. More than 250 airmen participated in the exercise designed to evaluate the full gamut...

The Aeronautical Systems Center is working on a “promising concept” that could make high-altitude airdrops more rapid, safe, and accurate. The Joint Precision Airdrop System incorporates several steerable components—canopy and electro-mechanical actuators—an airborne guidance unit, and mission planning hardware and...

Northrop Grumman has successfully tested its new LN-120G stellar navigation system on USAF’s RC-135 Rivet Joint, electronics intelligence aircraft. The Air Force has contracted for 30 of these new systems, which should enable the RC-135 mission crews to accurately pinpoint...

Boeing might have to pay the Air Force an additional $412 million—funds from the original C-17 contract—if the Air Force finds the service paid too much for the airlifter, according to various news reports. The Air Force has been reviewing...

The Air Force Research Lab has been working with the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center to perform non-destructive analysis of components from a C-5A to determine whether the giant airlifters are meeting life-expectancy predictions and whether it’s advisable to modernize...

Seventy-two percent of the American public trusts military officers to tell the truth, the latest Harris Poll found, an increase of eight points from a survey conducted in 2002. Americans also highly trust doctors and teachers, who ranked numbers 1...

The US Attorney’s Office has settled the case of the American-Amicable Life Insurance Company of Texas, which, along with its affiliates, had represented expensive insurance policies as savings plans to tens of thousands of new military recruits. The settlement calls...

Air Force Space Command plans to hold the space and missile competition known as Guardian Challenge, culminating in an awards banquet on Aug. 17. Real-world deployments caused the command to cancel the Challenge last year. Peterson AFB, Colo., home to...

A recent survey conducted by The Pew Research Center shows that a majority of Americans believe news reports of the government’s efforts to track terrorist activities by examining bank records have hurt America’s interests. However, having noted that, we find...

The Air Force has now made it official policy that a senior NCO must complete Senior NCO Academy coursework and must have a Community College of the Air Force degree before they can endorsed for promotion to senior or chief...

Aug. 10, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 12 9 21 CAS/Armed Recon 47 28 75 Airlift 150 150 Air refueling 41 41 Total 59 37 191 287 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance