The next rotation of bombers to boost Pacific region security and stability has arrived at Andersen AFB, Guam. A force of six B-52s with aircrews, maintainers, and support staff from the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot AFB, N.D., will make...

NASA has knighted Lockheed Martin to develop the Orion crew exploration vehicle, the replacement for the space shuttle. The first launch of the new CEV with a human crew is slated for 2014. NASA expects the Orion to transport up...

Utah Test and Training Range personnel from Hill AFB, Utah, arranged the explosion of the last two Titan IV launch vehicle solid rocket motor units last week, reports the Hilltop Times. One SRMU compares in size to two sport utility...

Airmen of the active duty 8th Special Operations Squadron, which for the last six years has operated as an active-associate unit to Air Force Reserve Command’s 919th Special Operations Wing at Duke Field, Fla., have returned to Hurlburt AFB, Fla., where they will form AFSOC’s first operational CV-22 unit. The 8th SOS airmen repeated the original transfer ceremony by taking turns running the 26 miles from Duke to Hurlburt, carrying the squadron flag. The Eglin Eagle reports that the 8th SOS was USAF’s first active-associate unit, reversing the familiar process in which Reservists flew active aircraft. The 8th SOS airmen just returned from their last deployment flying the MC-130E Combat Talon I in combat.

A new report by the Government Accountability Office entreats the Pentagon to move out smartly if it wants to ensure US Special Operations Command can handle its increasing mission. GAO says that SOCOM knows how many new personnel it needs...

The two C-17s from Hickam AFB, Hawaii, flown by active and Air National Guard airmen, that evacuated 188 people from tiny Wake island left their engines running as the evacuees—active duty airmen and DOD and Thai contractors—filed on board, leaving...

Vice President Dick Cheney visited Offutt AFB, Neb., Tuesday, praising US Strategic Command and 55th Wing personnel and other military personnel for their displays of “courage and character,” which he said are the US military’s “decisive element” not its equipment....

Former Navy Secretary and 9/11 Commission member John Lehman writes in the Washington Post that “even the most sanguine optimist cannot yet conclude that we are winning this war or that we can win without some significant changes in policy.”...

President Bush plans to nominate Robert Howard to be the new chief information officer at Veterans Affairs. Howard, who has been working as a special advisor to VA Secretary James Nicholson, served as acting CIO during the veterans data theft...

A new survey by The Harris Poll indicates that individuals in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain believe that America is a greater threat to global stability than Iran, North Korea, Iraq, China, or Russia. Iran comes in second and...

The Air Force has contracted with Space Data Corp. to provide a communications system that will aid battlefield communications from a balloon-borne platform in near space. Tests have shown that the system can extend ground-to-ground voice and data communications from...

We reported earlier on efforts by Sen. James Talent (R-Mo.) and veteran service organizations to stop predatory lending practices that target military members. We overlooked mention of a new report by the Pentagon that provides some interesting data about this...

Aug. 30, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 13 5 19 CAS/Armed Recon 40 25 65 Airlift 150 150 Air refueling 38 38 Total 53 31 188 272 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance