A host of lawmakers from both parties and a variety of states have not given up the fight to get the Pentagon to purchase additional C-17s—at least enough to keep the Boeing production line open beyond 2009. Boeing last week...

A new Government Accountability Office report delving into whether DOD has complied with Congressional tasking to provide meaningful annual master plans for its overseas restructuring efforts finds that the most recent plan “generally exceeded the reporting requirements.” There were just...

Missouri Air National Guard pilot, Col. Jon “JB” Kelk has flown more than 4,000 hours in the F-15 Eagle fighter, reports the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Kelk, who is with the 131st Fighter Wing at Lambert Field near St. Louis,...

The Navy has decided to combine its European-based weather forecasters with US Air Forces in Europe weather operators at Sembach AB, Germany, in a money-saving move, reports Stars and Stripes. The sailors will work with the 21st Operational Weather Squadron...

Airmen at the C-130 Center of Excellence at Little Rock AFB, Ark., spent about a year creating a maintenance training program adapted specifically to the Romanian Air Force. The first 12 Romanians just completed the training, and another four will...

The Air Force has selected Boeing to modify the service’s C-130 aircrew training systems to accommodate the C-130 avionics modernization program. The Air Force has said it will move ahead with the C-130 AMP but plans to re-compete the installation...

Some 300 airmen and a complement of F-16Cs from the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing at McEntire ANGS, S.C., are deploying to Kadena AB, Japan, on the island of Okinawa, reports the Associated Press news service. They...

It used to be said that the B-52 bombers flown and maintained by airmen today were much older than the airmen. SSgt. Kory McLeod, a B-52 crew chief with the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot AFB, N.D., says his BUFF...

Air Force Special Operations Command today is holding a special memorial at Hurlburt Field, Fla., for SrA. Adam Servais, the combat controller killed in Afghanistan Aug. 19. Servais, who joined the Air Force in 2002, was on his second deployment...

Civil engineering airmen of the Kansas Air National Guard’s 184th Air Refueling Wing constructed 2,009 feet of fencing in Arizona along the border with Mexico during their two-week deployment to assist the Border Patrol. The Kansas City Star reports that...

Air Force Space Command has inducted six new individuals, all retired Air Force officers, into the Space and Missile Pioneer Hall of Fame. They are: Col. Wilbert F. Craig III, Brig. Gen. Maurice A. Cristadoro Jr., Maj. Gen. Ben I....

DOD has put names to remains of three Army Air Forces airmen who were declared missing in action in 1944. The airmen are: 2nd Lt. David J. Nelson, Chicago; TSgt. Henry F. Kortebein, Maspeth, N.Y.; and TSgt. Blake A. Treece...

The Air Force has contracted with the United Industrial subsidiary AAI Services Corp. to upgrade the T-25 simulator for electronic training (SECT), which it originally developed for the Air Force in the 1990s. AAI will receive $6.9 million to “design,...

Aug. 23, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 14 9 23 CAS/Armed Recon 42 31 73 Airlift 150 150 Air refueling 42 42 Total 56 40 192 288 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance