Daily Report

President Obama plans $400 billion in cuts to the defense budget by 2023, he announced Wednesday as part of his outline on how to reduce the federal deficit by $4 trillion by then. This goal goes beyond the reductions already...

A Russian air force delegation led by its Chief, Col.-Gen. Alexander Nikolayevich Zelin, visited Barksdale AFB, La., as part of the US Air Force Chief of Staff Counterpart Visit Program. Zenin and his group met with senior Air Force Global...

Pacific Air Forces’ enlisted corps has nominated its commander, Gen. Gary North, for induction in the command’s Order of the Sword. It is the highest honor that the enlisted corps may bestow. CMSgt. Brooke McLean, PACAF’s command chief, notified North...

A combined team of Afghan airmen and their USAF advisors conducted the first dedicated Mi-17 medical evacuation mission for the nascent Afghan air force’s Kandahar Air Wing. The mission took place Monday at the AAF’s Kandahar Air Base in the...

Rockwell Collins has signed a maintenance agreement with L-3 Communications to provide avionics service and support for the Air Force’s MC-12 Liberty intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance aircraft. “This maintenance contract is based on best practices that we’ve developed for commercial airlines and business...

The Air Force’s dress and appearance standards website is now fully operational and ready to help airmen with their uniform questions. The site is accessible via Air Force Personnel Center’s public website (left column under “featured programs”). It’s designed for...

Defense Department officials announced Wednesday that they have identified the remains of 2nd Lt. Martin P. Murray, a 21-year-old airman from Lowell, Mass., who was missing in action for 68 years, and returned them to his family. Murray is scheduled...

Ukraine is now free of Scud missiles and infrastructure on its territory thanks to US support and funding, the State Department announced Wednesday. The parties destroyed or demilitarized more than 185 Scud missile airframes and 50 transporter erector launchers. They...