The 361st Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, has begun winding down for its return to the United States after four years of ISR missions in southern Afghanistan. The squadron has flown more than 25,000 air tasking order sorties...
Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said manned and unmanned aircraft operated by US Special Forces conducted a strike with precision munitions against an encampment and a vehicle in Somalia based on “actionable intelligence” that a key leader of the...
The Defense Department is trying to assess the validity of a video released Tuesday in which the a member of the terrorist organization ISIS apparently beheaded freelance American journalist Steven Sotloff, Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said Tuesday. The...
The GPS IIR and IIR-M satellite blocks recently hit 200 combined years in operation with a near-perfect availability rate. The 20 satellites, which comprise approximately two-thirds of the full GPS constellation, originally launched between 1997 and 2009 and “have maintained...
TSgt. Latoria R. Ellis, contracting team lead? with the 502nd Contracting Squadron at JBSA-Lackland, Texas, is one of the Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2014. Ellis led a 25-member team that completed 86 contracts for Wilford...
The Air Force has ordered the final three RQ-4B Global Hawk remotely piloted aircraft from manufacturer Northrop Grumman, completing the block’s program of record of 21 airframes. The $240.7 million contract covers production of three Global Hawks as well as...
A retired Air Force B-52 pilot and researcher is about to start an eight-month simulation of a mission to Mars in an isolated habitat on the desolate slope of a Hawaiian volcano. Edward Fix, a 20-year Air Force veteran was...
The composure and professionalism of a C-17 loadmaster played a key role in helping to save the lives of three critically wounded US personnel injured in an attempted rescue mission in South Sudan. That performance has earned SrA. Cody Nunez...
