Air Mobility Command is in the early stages of defining requirements for the Air Force’s next-generation airlifter, the C-X, and it could replace the C-17 and C-130 alike, said command boss Gen. Paul Selva. He told the Daily Report that...
2013 was a year “history will certainly not forget,” and airmen’s efforts throughout the year were “tremendous, individually and as a team,” wrote CMSAF James Cody in the latest issue of Roll Call, his monthly bulletin to the enlisted force....
Having pushed through Fiscal 2014 defense authorization legislation and a broader two-year budget deal prior to the Christmas break, congressional lawmakers now face the challenge of coming up with spending legislation to fund the Pentagon for the remainder of the...
Nicolo Solarino, a special agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, received the Bronze Star Medal with Valor Device, recognizing his heroism in helping to save a fellow airman’s life during an enemy rocket attack in Iraq back...
The Senate confirmed the nomination of Maj. Gen. John Raymond to receive a third star for his new assignment as commander of 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic) at Vandenberg AFB, Calif. In this role, he will oversee the Air...
The three Air Force CV-22s that took fire last month while trying to evacuate US citizens from a violence-stricken part of South Sudan sustained “moderate damage,” according to US Africa Command spokesman Chuck Prichard. However, due to operational security concerns,...
The Air Force and its industry partners restored the Spirit of Washington, one of the service’s 20 B-2 stealth bombers, to full-mission-ready status after nearly a four-year hiatus. On Dec. 16, the bomber took part in its first training mission...
Airmen completed the transfer of a Burundian light infantry battalion to the Central African Republic in support of an African Union-led peacekeeping mission there, according to Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren. A small team of airmen and two C-17s...
A major fuel leak caused by a displaced baffle cutting into the main fuel line of a B-1B bomber led to the aircraft’s crash in a pasture near Broadus, Mont., during a training mission last August, announced Air Combat Command....
The Federal Aviation Administration announced the six research and test site operators that will help it assess the issues associated with utilizing remotely piloted aircraft in US civil airspace. They are: Griffiss International Airport in Rome, N.Y.; the state of...
