The 5th Bomb Wing at Minot AFB, N.D., did not shine in all areas of the nuclear surety inspection held at the base in mid May. The results leave the unit still shy of fully restoring its tainted reputation after...

Air Force Space Command’s 1st Space Operations Squadron at Schriever AFB, Colo., today (June 2) will cease operations of the midcourse space experiment satellite, which provided valuable data on activities in space six years beyond its intended service life. MSX,...

Fifty-five airmen from Air Force Reserve Command’s 440th Airlift Wing at Pope AFB, N.C., deployed in two of their C-130H transports, along with nine colleagues from Pope’s active duty 43rd Airlift Wing, on May 25 to Ramstein AB, Germany, for...

An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle fired Hellfire missiles at enemy combatants who were engaging friendly forces with rocket propelled grenades May 30 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Air Forces Central announced May 31. This was one of the 52 close-air-support missions...

Seikichi Kaneshiro, the longest-serving federal employee in the Air Force, retired May 30 after 66 years during a ceremony at Andersen AFB, Guam. Of his total years of service, 62 were spent on Guam, where he last served as Andersen’s...

Air Force Reserve Command’s 934th Airlift Wing at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport/ARS, Minn., took delivery May 20 of the first of eight C-130H3 transport aircraft that it is set to receive by the end of July under a BRAC 2005-mandated realignment....

RAND Project Air Force issued a report in May outlining strategies for improving the manner in which USAF analyzes the costs and benefits of its intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance collection strategies so that its ISR assets—which are always in high...

Air Force Office of Scientific Research-sponsored work at the University of California at Sam Diego has yielded an inexpensive sensor the size of a penny that could be carried on micro unmanned aerial vehicles to detect bombs. The sensor, which...

Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaMay 29-30, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 51 28 79 4,500 CAS/Armed Recon 134 108 242 13,444 Airlift 269 269 19,258 Air refueling 108 108 6,206 Total 698 43,408...