Growing to Meet Demand

The Air Force is launching a set of personnel and manpower initiatives to grow the size of the force and stabilize stressed career fields in order to meet increased mission requirements, announced service officials on Monday. These moves are meant...

Out of the Shadows

The two remaining MC-130P Combat Shadow special-mission aircraft in the Air Force’s Active Duty inventory conducted their final flights at Hurlburt Field, Fla., before they head off into retirement early next month, according to a base r?elease. The two 1960s-vintage...

More Training Flights at Davis-Monthan

The Air Force announced it would proceed with plans to increase the number of training flights it allows each year for visiting aircraft at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. Under the changes, the new cap for these annual Total Force Training flights...

Indian Air Chief Visits United States

By Marc V. Schanz
Indian Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha left New Delhi on Monday for a four-day visit to the United States, at the invitation of Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh, reported India’s New Delhi Television. Raha is scheduled to hold talks...

Hardware Delivery for New GPS Ground Control

Raytheon supplied the first operational hardware for OCX, the next-generation ground control system for the Air Force’s GPS navigation satellites, announced the company. The equipment arrived at Schriever AFB, Colo., earlier this month, states the company’s May 14 release. Schriever...

No More Hurdles to Starting Low

The Air Force’s Small Diameter Bomb II program has advanced to the point that is it ready for low-rate initial production, announced manufacturer Raytheon. Reaching the Milestone C threshold, as it is known, came after the Air Force and company...

Midwest Hospitality

A small contingent of F-16 pilots and maintainers from the Polish air force visited the Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing in Madison for a week of subject-matter exchange as part of the Guard’s State Partnership Program, according to...

Listen to This

The Air Force recently launched its first baseline testing program to measure the hearing of enlisted trainees and officer recruits, announced officials at JBSA-Lackland, Texas. “Our goal with this program is to provide an accurate hearing assessment for new recruits...