The top Air Force general in Afghanistan said he doesn’t see the December 2014 withdrawal deadline for US combat forces as the end of the Air Force’s presence there. “We’re still kind of in the middle,” Maj. Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach...
Maj. Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, commander of the 9th Air and Space Expeditionary Task Force-Afghanistan, said he was surprised to learn the Afghan air force was not a “rag-tag operation.” In the three months since he assumed his role as the...
While the Air Force has put money back into its flying hour accounts for the remainder of the fiscal year, time will be the critical factor in getting the units that stopped flying in April combat-capable once again, said Adm....
Joint Chiefs Chairman Army Gen. Martin Dempsey told Afghan and US reporters in Kabul on Monday that he would not recommend the “zero option” of pulling out all US troops from Afghanistan after the completion of NATO’s combat mission there...
Despite the failure of the nation’s ballistic missile shield to intercept the target missile in a test earlier this month, Vice Adm. James Syring, Missile Defense Agency director, said he remains confident in the system. Based on the “models and...
The first HC-130J combat rescue aircraft destined for beddown with the 347th Rescue Group at Moody AFB, Ga., arrived at the Georgia base. The factory-fresh airplane left Lockheed Martin’s assembly facility in Marietta, Ga., on July 19 for the flight...
Air Force Materiel Command officially stood up the 418th Flight Test Squadron, Det. 1 in Seattle to support developmental testing of the Boeing-built KC-46A tanker, announced command officials. The detachment’s first three members were on hand for the unit’s activation...
The Air Force is demolishing the Cold War-era fuel storage tanks at Beale AFB, Calif., that supported the SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft that formerly operated from the base. Workers have already removed three of the five massive tanks that held the...
The Air Force is evaluating hundreds of Civil Air Patrol members from North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia for the next week on their ability to respond to real-world emergencies, reported Virginia’s Stafford County Sun. The graded search and rescue...
Defense Department forensic scientists identified the remains of Sgt. Jerome E. Kiger, 22, of Mannington, W.V., an airman missing in action since World War II, announced the Pentagon. Kiger’s remains were laid to rest with full military honors on July...
