July 2008

Vol. 91, No. 7

The Gates Case

Having acted swiftly, the Pentagon chief outlined his reasons for the firing of USAF’s leadership.

The 100-Wing Air Force

It seemed like a throwaway line. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, in an April speech at Maxwell AFB, Ala., asked the airman audience to “think through what more we might do … to enhance the air capabilities of other...

Air Force World

Airman Dies in Afghanistan SrA. Jonathan A. V. Yelner, 24, of Lafayette, Calif., died April 29 near Bagram AB, Afghanistan, from wounds he received when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. Yelner, a weapons load crew member assigned to...

Verbatim

Keep ’Em Flying “We can never forget that our gains on the ground are possible because of our superiority in the sky. Our Air Force is essential to that different form of warfare that we have had to learn—or perhaps...

“The Bomber Will Always Get Through”

“The Air Threat” Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of Council Remarks to House of Commons London November 10, 1932 FULL TEXT VERSION Few famous speeches have been more misunderstood than that by Stanley Baldwin, Britain’s once and future Prime Minister, on...

Letters

Let’s Ask Them [In reference to “Editorial: Questions for the Candidates,” May, p. 2]: I recommend posing those questions to each candidate and asking for their written responses, which would then be published in Air Force Magazine. MSgt. Boyd A....

AFA National Report

Field Trip! Backed by an AFA Chapter Matching Grant, the Gen. Bruce K. Holloway Chapter in Tennessee helped offset the cost of a field trip that students from Knoxville made to the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.,...