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A two-seat F-15D fighter crashed yesterday (July 30) at the Nevada Test and Training Range, while participating in a Red Flag training exercise, killing one of the two pilots onboard, Nellis Air Force Base public affairs said in a release....

Testimony—or rather the lack of it—by Air Force Gen. Norton Schwartz in 2003 before the Senate Armed Services Committee prompted the committee to hold three classified hearings this week to continue their consideration of his nomination to become the Air...

In his July 30 summary of the just-completed markup of the 2009 defense spending bill, Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, said his panel had “added and redistributed funds that will prepare our military for...

Despite protestations by the Air Force and DOD, many lawmakers seem determined that the Pentagon should review industrial base issues in the reconsideration of the KC-X tanker award. In marking up the 2009 defense spending bill (see above), the House...

Mostly Happy in North Dakota The Air Force has formally assigned a new flying mission to the North Dakota Air National Guard’s Happy Hooligans, cementing an agreement the service made with the state’s Congressional delegation that will put C-27 Spartan...

Some 11 inches of rain dumped on parts of South Texas by Hurricane Dolly prompted the state to ask a neighbor for use of one of its Air National Guard RC-26 counter-drug surveillance aircraft. Texas Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Charles...

The 564th Missile Squadron at Malmstrom AFB, Mont., expected to deactivate the last of its 50 Minuteman III ICBMs this week or in early August, according to a July 27 report by the Great Falls Tribune. Once that is done,...

The Niagara Military Affairs Council stopped in to see Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday ( July 29) in a continuing dialogue about the fate of the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, according to a statement from the Senator’s office....

Retired MSgt. James T. Price, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II fame, died July 20 of injuries sustained in a fall several weeks earlier, according to a July 29 release from Osan AB, South Korea, where...

Air Force Research Lab’s Phillips Technology Institute at Kirtland AFB, N.M., is working with the University of New Mexico and other federal government and industry organizations to create a center of excellence that would focus on the use of Field...

Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaJuly 28, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 25 13 38 6,508 CAS/Armed Recon 48 78 126 19,157 Airlift 135 135 26,214 Air refueling 62 62 9,213 Total 361 61,092...