PACAF Sends Forces to Latest Quake Region: Pacific Air Forces has dispatched a pair of C-130s from the Pacific region’s one and only tactical airlift unit and 85 airmen to help provide relief to victims of the recent earthquake near...

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley was knighted during a ceremony at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. on May 30. It was Queen Elizabeth II who suggested the honor to recognize Moseley’s contributions to US-British relations...

Travis CRG Trains in Sierra Nevada: In California’s remote Honey Lake Valley, northwest of Reno, Nev., the 570th Contingency Response Group, based at Travis AFB, Calif., spent 10 days last month taking part in its first full-scale exercise, practicing a...

FORCE Stands for Faster Fueling: Deployed airmen in Southwest Asia are refueling aircraft faster and with fewer personnel in part due to new fuels mobility support equipment. The new system, dubbed FORCE for Fuels Operational Readiness Capability Equipment, is becoming...

Several news outlets are reporting that the Air Force is investigating the death of SSgt. Rom Walters with Air Force Reserve Command’s 944th Fighter Wing at Luke AFB, Ariz. The 40-year-old Reservist died May 27, a day after taking an...

BWB to Take to the California Skies: The Boeing X-48B blended wing prototype we reported on last month is slated for flight test sometime this year, according to the Los Angeles Daily News. The joint team of NASA, USAF, and...

Rumsfeld Waxes Eloquent in Colorado: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told the graduating class as the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., that they must “go beyond simply a change of a process here or of a piece of equipment...

The city of Abilene, Tex., along with Tye, a small town nearby, will be sending their trash to Dyess Air Force Base, where base officials expect to turn it and the base’s own trash into electricity. According to Associated Press...

Kenney Proves Its Worth: Military personnel from the US and Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, and Thailand last week completed exercise Cobra Gold, featuring a command post exercise, multiple field training exercises, and humanitarian operations in Thailand and Hawaii. The air operations...

Chilton to Take AFSPC Reins June 26: Gen. Kevin Chilton will take command of Air Force Space Command, headquartered at Peterson AFB, Colo., on June 26, 2006. Chilton was confirmed by the Senate for the assignment on May 19.

If all goes as planned, USAF will award the CSAR-X contract in early September, according to Daniel Spoor, Lockheed Martin’s CSAR-X program vice president. Speaking at a media event at Lockheed’s Center for Innovation in Suffolk, Va., on May 31,...

The contractors offering the US101 aircraft to the Air Force for its CSAR-X program say their vehicle employs a unique rotor design, called the British Experimental Rotor Program (BERP) to prevent brownouts—dust that can envelop an aircraft. At a briefing...

US European Command is undergoing a huge change. (Read our article from 2003 for background.) Large American bases reminiscent of the Cold War are being replaced with smaller regional training centers, such as ones that are being established in Romania...

Lockheed Martin and EADS Astrium recently concluded they could work together to ensure interoperability between the US Global Positioning System III satellites and the European Galileo navigation satellite program. The two companies will perform systems engineering and technical assistance tasks...

Boeing officials say the company has completed key dynamic environmental tests for the first of three Wideband Gapfiller Satellites. The tests, they said Thursday, confirm the spacecraft’s structural design and mechanical integrity. Boeing expects to launch the first WGS in...

May 31, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 13 5 18 CAS/Armed Recon 46 23 69 Airlift 160 160 Air refueling 34 34 Total 59 28 194 281 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance