Airmen of the New York Air National Guard’s 174th Fighter Wing are on their last deployment to Southwest Asia with the F-16 fighter. On their return, they begin the changeover to another type of strike aircraft—the hunter-killer MQ-9 Reaper unmanned...
The Justice Department announced Aug. 1 that Pratt & Whitney and its subcontractor PCC Airfoils LLC had agreed to pay more than $50 million to “settle allegations of selling defective jet engine parts,” stated the DOJ release. Following an investigation...
New Jersey Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R) wants Gov. Jon Corzine to permit the Air National Guard’s 177th Fighter Wing to begin using the Warren Grove Gunnery Range, which it has been prohibited from doing since the May 2007 fire ignited...
According to an Aug. 1 report in the News-Journal, the Air Force has formally stipulated that the 179th Airlift Wing will fly the C-27J Spartan Joint Cargo Aircraft, probably beginning in 2012, and until then will fly C-21 Learjets. The...
South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigating more than 200 No Gun Ri-type events, in which US forces allegedly killed South Korean civilians, has called on the South Korean government to press the US for compensation. (Following the No Gun...
The Royal Air Force’s 12th Bomber Squadron from RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland, has just wrapped its latest deployment to Iraq, where RAF Tornado aircraft fly reconnaissance and close air support missions, which they have done for the past five years. The...
The residents in a northwestern North Dakota town apparently took the news in stride that an Air Force ICBM transport truck had overturned near Parshall last week. According to an Associated Press Aug. 2 report, the talk of the town...
Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaAug. 2, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 23 13 36 6,700 CAS/Armed Recon 49 69 118 19,697 Airlift 135 135 26,864 Air refueling 65 65 9,521 Total 354 62,782...
