The June recruiting numbers show a continuing downward trend for the Air National Guard that now spans five months. The Air Guard recruited just 75 percent of its goal of 1,036 airmen. Most of the media focus over last month’s...

Air Force Lt. Gen. Roger Brady, Air Staff head of manpower and personnel, responded to questions from Pentagon reporters Tuesday that he really couldn’t provide firm details on how things will shake out exactly on USAF’s future force shaping plans....

Air Force personnel and manpower chief, Lt. Gen. Roger Brady told Pentagon reporters Tuesday that one of the big challenges his shop is trying to tackle is making sure airmen are being appropriately used in theater for In-Lieu-Of taskings—better known...

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) wants extra assurance the Air Force is going to give full consideration to the KC-30 tanker being offered by the Northrop Grumman-EADS team, which plans to produce the aircraft at a new plant in Mobile, Ala....

Washington state’s Democratic Senatorial delegation—Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray—have put in play an amendment to the 2008 defense authorization bill to save the 36th Rescue Flight at Fairchild AFB, Wash. The amendment (S.A. 358) would restore some $4 million to...

The Mississippi Air National Guard’s 172nd Airlift Wing has taken possession of a new C-17 airlifter assault runway built at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center, a state-owned facility. The 172nd plans to use the runway to train C-17 crews...

The Pentagon acquisition chief, Ken Krieg, has given the Air Force permission to proceed with the restructured Space-Based Infrared System satellite program, reports Rebecca Christie of Dow Jones Newswires (report via CNNMoney.com). The program had been in technological and financial...

Pacific Air Forces has kicked off the third Red Flag-Alaska of the year. The exercise being flown out of Eielson and Elmendorf Air Force Bases in Alaska will run through July 27.

Just back from a visit downrange, Air Force Lt. Gen. Roger Brady, head of manpower and personnel on the Air Staff, spoke with reporters at the Pentagon Tuesday about what deployed airmen told him. Brady said he got a lot...

July 9, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 16 10 26 CAS/Armed Recon 52 43 95 Airlift 154 154 Air refueling 46 46 Total 68 53 200 321 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...