Five years ago today, Air Force Global Strike Command stood up in a ceremony at Barksdale AFB, La., charged with reinvigorating the Air Force’s nuclear enterprise, AFGSC boss Lt. Gen. Stephen Wilson wrote in a commentary on the occasion published...
Pease ANGB, N.H., will be the first ANG-led main operating base for the KC-46A Pegasus, the Air Force announced Aug. 6. Pease, which was named as the preferred alternative in May 2013, was selected as a main Guard operating base...
The long-running bilateral exercise Commando Sling will move to Australia later this month, becoming a multilateral event between the US, the Singaporeans, and the Royal Australian Air Force, Pacific Air Forces spokesman Capt. Ray Geoffroy told Air Force Magazine. Singapore...
Airmen with the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, are now using the new Wireless Gate Release System, or WGRS, on its C-130J Hercules airdrop flights in theater, according to an Aug. 5 release. Capt. Jeffrey Furnary, a...
Air Force Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson has asked the USAFA Inspector General to examine the culture within the Air Force Academy, according to a statement released this week. “These efforts will help in eliminating subcultures at the Air...
The Air Force won nearly one-third of the 25 Federal Energy Management Program awards this year, with initiatives that are saving the service and the taxpayers tens of millions of dollars yearly through reduced energy and fuel consumption, according to...
The Arkansas Air National Guard’s 123rd Intelligence Squadron, which operates a component of the Air Force Distributed Common Ground System, now falls under the recently re-designated 188th Wing at Ebbing ANGB, Ark., creating an ISR Center of Excellence, according to...
Four airmen from the Arkansas Air National Guard and two from 12th Air Force are participating in a subject matter expert exchange with members of the Guatemala air force. As part of a continuing effort to expand and enhance Guatemala’s...
Boeing received a $250 million contract from NATO to install digital flight decks and avionics on 13 of the Alliance’s E-3 Airborne Early Warning and Control System aircraft, the company announced Aug. 6. The new technology ensures compliance with current...
