US Central Command Air Forces applied intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance air assets combined with precision strike and close air support to aid coalition ground forces in Afghanistan Jan. 10, killing as many as 150 insurgents. CENTAF deputy command, Maj. Gen. William Holland called...

Accounts of a delay until next month on the Air Force issuance of a final request for proposals on the KC-X tanker replacement competition are “wrong,” reports Rebecca Christie of Dow Jones newswires. That word, from usually knowledgeable defense analyst...

Air Combat Command today entered the F-22A stealth fighter in its first Red Flag exercise, the first one of 2007 and dubbed “Colonial Flag.” This four-week Red Flag exercise comprises more than 200 aircraft—B-1B, B-2, F-15E, F-22, F-117, and British...

The 49th Fighter Wing at Holloman AFB, N.M., has dispatched some 300 airmen and a number of F-117 Nighthawks to Kunsan AB, South Korea on the unit’s fourth air expeditionary force deployment to the peninsula since 2003. Forming the 9th...

The Air Force expects to boot involuntarily only 3,000 airmen under its planned cut of 40,000 authorizations over the next three years, officials report in the service’s new Web-based communications tool called “Roll Call.” Aimed at providing the straight skinny...

A brief statement from Lajes Field in the Azores attempts to end a rumor that the Air Force has frozen assignments. Apparently the Air Force Personnel Center did not, as is tradition, issue an assignments list last month covering the...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates took the Administration’s new plan for Iraq on the road, holding discussions about both Iraq and Afghanistan with British officials, including Prime Minister Tony Blair, in London on Jan. 14. Gates then traveled to Belgium on...

Air Force Reserve Command plans to establish a “classic” associate unit at Eglin AFB, Fla., working with Air Combat Command units there. A news release said the start date is “tentatively” set for Fiscal 2008. The Reserve unit would support...

US District Court Judge Jeanne Scott in Springfield, Ill., has to reconsider the lawsuit brought by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich over the decision to remove F-16s from the Illinois Air National Guard’s 183rd Fighter Wing and transfer them to the...

Airmen undergoing technical training at Sheppard AFB, Tex., are feeling a little less restricted under a new Air Force Education and Training Command plan to enable the young airmen to “experience what they’ll experience at their first duty station,” said...

Air Force Reserve Command’s 403rd Wing at Keesler AFB, Miss., now has all eight of its new C-130J-30 airlifters, with the arrival last week of the final stretch version. The wing also has 10 WC-130Js, specially modified Hercules to conduct...

Chances for promotion among enlisted Reservists just doubled, thanks to a policy change approved by Lt. Gen. John Bradley, head of Air Force Reserve Command, that advanced the promotion cycle from an every other month process to a monthly process....

A Jan. 12 Air Force statement notes that the service relieved a female training instructor of her duties following her revelation that she would appear in next month’s issue of Playboy magazine. Scores of media reports identified the airman as...

Jan. 11-12, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 21 20 41 CAS/Armed Recon 46 54 100 Airlift 240 240 Air refueling 62 62 Total 67 74 302 443 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance