After three weeks of air-to-air combat exercises between the US Air Force and the Royal Malaysian Air Force, the airmen involved believe Cope Taufan 2006 proved a new level of interoperability. For the USAF F-15 pilots, flying with the RMAF MiG-29s provided a rare opportunity. The whole point of the exercise, says Lt. Gen. David Deptula, commander of the Pacific Air Forces warfighting center at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, was to help create an integrated team and the event “most certainly exceeded” that goal.
The top Air Force commander on on the Japanese island of Okinawa has clamped down alcohol and issued a curfew for junior enlisted Airmen and Guardians at Kadena Air Base for the next month. The order came roughly two weeks after a U.S. Marine was arrested for allegedly robbing and…