Air Force Reserve Command has declared up front that the just-signed 2008 defense appropriations bill will only fund an end strength of 67,500 Reservists. What the AFRC release doesn’t say is that’s the number that the Administration requested in its...

If a report by Roxana Tiron in The Hill is correct, conferees working the 2008 defense authorization bill have decided the Army shouldn’t be kicked out of the Joint Cargo Aircraft program. Despite House leanings toward a full roles and...

Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne declared this week that he is currently “in a reliability nightmare,” because the service is “flying products that were not designed to fly this long.” Wynne was addressing the Logistics Officers Association Conference in Washington,...

The President has nominated Lt. Gen. Roger Brady to take charge of US Air Forces in Europe, replacing Gen. Tom Hobbins, who announced his retirement earlier this year. Brady, who has served as the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff...

A 44-year-old C-130 tactical airlifter that received a Purple Heart during the Vietnam War and has been operating in Southwest Asia has flown its last combat mission. Capt. Christopher Moore reports that the veteran Hercules, No. 63-7865, accumulated more than...

Air Force Reserve Command plans on Nov. 17 to deactivate the 84th Aerial Port Squadron, which it activated in January 2004 to support war on terror operations worldwide. Assigned to the 315th Airlift Wing at Charleston AFB, S.C., the 130-member-strong...

Scott Schonauer of Stars and Stripes continues his report on the airmen performing ground combat duties in Iraq, writing that airmen with Det. 3 of the 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron are “shattering long-held stereotypes” that airmen are “soft.” (An...

The medical personnel who deployed to the Dominican Republic as the second wave of support from Joint Task Force Bravo at Soto Cano AB, Honduras treated more than 2,000 patients in four days, reports SSgt. Austin May. The medics, airmen...

A county in Illinois believes the company managing the privatized housing operation at Scott AFB, Ill., owes real estate taxes, but the company has asked a federal judge to step in. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the attorney representing...

The Air Force has awarded Bronze Star medals to two explosive ordnance disposal technicians at Beale AFB, Calif., for their actions while deployed to Iraq. MSgt. William Arganda oversaw EOD operations at a forward operating base near Baghdad, while TSgt....

The Airlift Tanker Association has inducted its first group into the Airlift/Tanker Association Hall of Fame, naming eight airmen to represent aeromedical evacuation team members. Making the presentation was retired Gen. Ronald Fogleman, former Chief of Staff, who said the...

Nov. 13, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 26 7 33 CAS/Armed Recon 41 44 85 Airlift 143 143 Air refueling 42 42 Total 67 51 185 303 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...