Air Forces Central announced March 15 that an airman working with a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, was killed that day by an improvised explosive device. The name of the airman is being withheld pending next-of-kin notification and release...

Reportedly Air Education and Training Command officials want to remove the F-15 fighters from Tyndall AFB, Fla., sooner than state lawmakers had anticipated. The Panama City News Herald reported that Brig. Gen. Darryl Roberson, commander of the 325th Fighter Wing,...

The Air National Guard is involuntarily mobilizing hundreds of civil engineer airmen for deployments to Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan during the next 24 months, according to a March 11 National Guard Bureau release. According to Col. John Elwood at the...

The Air Force had inspected 90 percent of its fleet of C-130 Hercules transports by the middle of last week and had found about half with defective wing-joint barrel nuts. According to Terrence May, director of the 330th Aircraft Sustainment...

Pennsylvania federal and state lawmakers have requested a delay in the shift of the A-10 Warthog attack aircraft of the Air National Guard’s 111th Fighter Wing at Willow Grove, reports the Associated Press (via Examiner). According to BRAC 2005, the...

On Friday, Continental US NORAD/1st Air Force (Air Forces Northern) personnel and NORAD, National Guard, and elected officials participated in a ceremonial ribbon cutting for the new Killey Center for Homeland Operations and its approach road, L.K. Arnold Way, at...

Louisiana lawmakers and local elected and community leaders met with Air Force officials March 12 to press the case for leaving the service’s new numbered air force for cyber operations at Barksdale Air Force Base, which currently hosts the start-up...

Eighth Air Force recently revived, for the first time in 15 years, Proud Shield/Giant Sword—better known as Bomb Comp—putting bomber aircrews, weapons loaders, and security forces through their paces, similarly to the Bomb Comps of Strategic Air Command days. For...

Air Force Secretary Michael Donley's latest Letter to Airmen talks about his role in creating "balance across the Department of the Air Force." He described a balanced approach as "prevailing in today's operations while investing in new capabilities, force structure, skills, and technologies to meet tomorrow's needs." He noted, too, that a balanced approach "means delivering capabilities across the spectrum of conflict." He wrote that a balanced approach also must distribute the service's "diverse missions and responsibilities across active and reserve components, civilian workforce, and contractors in ways that maximize effectiveness and efficiency for joint commanders and the American taxpayer."

The Air Force has awarded a Bronze Star to Lt. Col. Carlos Camarillo, who deployed from Dover AFB, Del., to lead the 586th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron in Southwest Asia for six months and relinquished command during a March 12...

Retired SMSgt. Norman R. “Jack” Matthews died March 8 at age 92, reports the Suffolk News-Herald. Matthews was an aerial gunner sent to the Philippines with other airmen in late 1941 to await their airplanes during World War II. They...

Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaMar. 11-12, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 53 39 92 2,820 CAS/Armed Recon 62 137 199 7,086 Airlift 275 275 9,240 Air refueling 46 46 3,230 Total 612 22,376...