One of the three C-130 avionics modernization program test aircraft sporting its new digital cockpit dropped by Hickam AFB, Hawaii, last week on a Pacific region tour designed to provide an evaluation of its integrated systems as it flew across...

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) has taken exception to the addition of unsolicited VIP jet aircraft for USAF in the 2010 defense spending bill passed July 30 by the full House, noting that Americans are “tightening their belts” in these tough...

New York Gov. David Paterson on Aug. 6 announced that members of the Air National Guard’s 105th Airlift Wing at Stewart Air National Guard Base will form a new partnership with an active Air Force unit to provide air base...

The Air Force has graduated its last class of airmen from its Voice Network Systems course at Sheppard AFB, Tex., from which the airmen worked in such areas as telephone key systems, circuitry, and computer systems. That field and 15...

Lt. Gen. Glenn Spears accepted command of 12th Air Force/Air Forces Southern during an Aug. 7 ceremony at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., where the numbered air force has its headquarters. He replaces Lt. Gen. Norman Seip, who has led 12th AF...

The Air Force has requested industry information to help it develop a future ICBM sustainment and acquisition concept (FISAC). The 526th ICBM Systems Group of the Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill AFB, Utah, on Aug. 4 issued a request...

Nine Air National Guard officers helped the Air Force determine whether it could open to non-rated officers the previously rated-only air liaison officer position, which was a special duty for rated officers. The Air Guard ALOs proved the concept, and...

Air Force Reserve Command airmen from the 301st Civil Engineer Squadron at NAS JRB Fort Worth, Tex., working on a joint humanitarian mission to Guyana, completed their first project, repairing, remodeling, and upgrading a nursery school, last week, after just...

US Air Forces in Europe officials at Ramstein AB, Germany, expect to open Phase II of the new Kaiserslautern Military Community Center on Aug. 15. Earlier this year, Phase I opened with the Ramstein Inn’s Visitor’s Quarters, Romano’s Macaroni Grill,...

Aug. 4, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 26 22 48 9,102 CAS/Armed Recon 24 87 111 20,643 Airlift 157 157 28,089 Air refueling 56 56 9,994 Total 372 67,828 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance...