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Troy Gilbert’s Odyssey
A decade after his heroic death in Iraq, the remains of a beloved airman were finally brought home.
Maintainer Misery
The Air Force’s maintainer shortage hurts readiness and will take years to fix.
Ebola Flight
AMC proves it can move an infectious patient forward for advanced treatment.
A Laser Defense
The Marine Corps is planning to use ground vehicle-based lasers to defend against unmanned aerial systems, a top planner for the service said Tuesday. “It’s where we want to go” Lt. Gen. Robert Walsh, head of Marine Corps Combat Development...
Finding Budget Stability
The use of overseas contingency operations funds to meet non-war needs hinders effective planning and budgetary discipline, former Pentagon comptroller Robert Hale said Monday. As OCO funding is not subject to binding budget caps, it has been increasingly used to...
Suggestions, but Little Detail
Both leading presidential candidates are expected to increase defense spending, though neither has detailed their plans, a group of budget experts agreed during a panel discussion Monday. During the event hosted by the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., Maya MacGuineas,...
GAO Slams A-10 Divestment Planning
Pentagon and Air Force planners do not have a clear understanding of the A-10-divestment implications, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released Wednesday. As a result it’s unclear how effective the service’s mitigation strategies will be, the GAO...
Provocation and Cooperation
North Korea launched another ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan Tuesday. US Strategic Command tracked what it assessed to be a KN-11 missile launched by a submarine off the coast of Sinpo, North Korea, at 3:29 p.m. Central Daylight...
The Military Response
The military will likely play a larger role in future contagious disease outbreak responses because of the capabilities it developed during the recent Ebola outbreak, Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Nadja West told reporters Thursday. West, who served as the...
Army Readies Medics for Future Fight
The Army is training medics to provide prolonged field care in case US forces don’t have “the luxury of air superiority” in future conflicts, Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Nadja West told reporters Thursday. The freedom of movement in recent...
From Bad to Worse
Downwash from an HH-60 Pave Hawk rescue helicopter assigned to the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th Rescue Squadron at JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, caused a rock to dislodge and knock a hiker unconscious in August 2014, Pacific Air Forces investigators found....
Mission: Isolation
How to properly dress and undress aren’t typically the focus of Air Force exercises, but during Exercise Mobility Solace on Tuesday, it was a major consideration. Air Mobility Command used the first day of the two-day exercise to validate its...
KC-46 to Enter Production
Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall approved the KC-46 program for initial production, the Air Force announced Friday. The service expects to award the first two low rate initial production lots, totaling 19 aircraft with spare parts, for a pre-negotiated $2.8...
An Aggressor Makeover
The threat pilots face during exercises over Nellis AFB, Nev., will soon have a new look. Last week, the 64th Aggressor Squadron unveiled a new ‘splinter’ paint scheme for their F-16s. The pattern of white, gray, and blue patches with...
Space Fence on Track
The Space Fence program is on track and is expected to reach initial operating capability in 2018, Lockheed Martin and Air Force officials said Monday. The amount of objects the Air Force tracks in space is expected to jump from...
More Than a Debris Tracker
The importance of the Space Fence program has grown along with the realization that space is becoming a contested domain, Air Force program manager Dana Whalley said Monday. The Space Fence radar, which will be housed on the Kwajalein Atoll...
Air Force Releases GBSD Solicitation
The Air Force released a request for proposals for the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent program’s first phase Friday. Proposals for the technology maturation and risk reduction phase of the GBSD program—the replacement for the service’s aging Minuteman III weapons system—will be...
Incirlik Operations Continue Despite Anti-US Protest
An anti-US rally outside Incirlik AB, Turkey, that drew hundreds of protesters Thursday did not disrupt anti-ISIS operations, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said Friday. An anti-US mood has been growing in Turkey based on suspected US involvement in the attempted...
F/A-18 Crash Kills Marine Corps Pilot
A Marine Corps pilot died Thursday night when his F/A-18C crashed during a training mission near Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif. The pilot, Maj. Richard Norton, was a member of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232, Marine...