Addressing Manpower Needs
Newly appointed Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz says the Air Force likely will assign the personnel that it will add to its active duty roster to hold its end strength at 330,000 to priority areas such as the nuclear...
On Pause, but Not Abandoning
The Air Force said yesterday, in response to rampant rumors, that it is not abandoning plans to establish a major command to lead its activities in the cyber realm. Rather it is taking a pause “to make a fresh assessment”...
DOD Launches Humanitarian Mission for Georgia
President Bush yesterday announced that he has directed the US military to commence a “vigorous” humanitarian-relief mission for the people of the Republic of Georgia in the wake of Russia’s military incursion. As of yesterday, a C-17 transport loaded with...
Fischer-Tropsch Certification Will Proceed
Acting Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said Tuesday the Air Force will proceed with plans to certify its entire fleet to run on a synthetic fuel blend by early next decade. “We do intend to continue with the certification,” Donley...
New Use for Surplus Munition
Over a 64-day period, Air Force weapons specialists at Hurlburt Field and Eglin Air Force Base, both in Florida, successfully modified surplus armor-piercing ammunition from World War II to provide Air Force Special Operations Command with a lower cost round...
Back Home
With little fanfare, five F-22s of the 90th Fighter Squadron at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, returned home on Aug. 8 from an almost three-week deployment to Andersen Air Force Base on Guam for training. Capt. Candice Miller, spokeswoman for the unit,...
Successful Test
The Air Force successfully launched a Minuteman III ICBM yesterday from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in a routine test to ensure the continued reliability and accuracy of the Minuteman fleet. The missile, which...
Growing Anticipation
A team of Air Force Research Lab-led engineers at Kirtland AFB, N.M., continues to prepare for the anticipated October launch of the Tactical Satelite-3. The on-orbit experiment will host the advance responsive tactically effective military imaging spectrometer, or ARTEMIS, a...
Missing World War II Pilot Identified
The remains of 2nd Lt. Howard Enoch Jr., an Army Air Forces pilot from Marion, Ky., missing since World War II, have been identified, DOD announced yesterday. Enoch went missing on March 19, 1945 when his P-51D fighter crashed while...
Esprit de Corps
For the first time in Air Force history, a French helicopter pilot recently joined an operational USAF rescue unit as part of a three-year officer exchange program. French Capt. Guillaume Vernet is now a part of the 41st Rescue Squadron...