Air Force Reserve Command officials unveiled a new Web-based official orders system—Air Reserve Order Writing System-Reserve—that they say should be available for use by Nov. 1. Individual mobilization augmentees can use the system from any computer to start the orders process. The AROWS-R combines the first Web-based system—Web Orders Transaction System—and other personnel systems, enabling commanders to view information such as cost and operations being supported.
The U.S. military is moving to restock its supply of the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bunker-busting bombs it used against Iran's underground nuclear facilities last June, according to Air Force documents.
