The Air Force’s Fleet Viability Board is engaged in assessing the higher-than-anticipated wear and tear the operations in Southwest Asia may have placed on the service’s EC-130H Compass Call electronic warfare platform, reports Flight Global. The assessment is due in January. Col. Stephen Brown, chief of electronic warfare requirements, told Flight Global that USAF’s 14 EC-130H communications jamming aircraft have flown at more than double the expected rate. (Compass Call sorties for Afghanistan surpassed 2,000 this summer; those over Iraq were at 3,000 earlier this year.) We reported earlier this month that the Air Force is hoping to pair with the Navy in its new EA-18G Growler. Maj. Gen. David Scott, Air Staff requirements director, also said the service is pursuing, as yet unidentified, stand-in capabilities for the airborne electronic attack mission. It has abandoned, once and for all, the notion of a B-52 stand-off jammer.
Top Lawmakers Want 15 Percent Pay Raise for Enlisted Troops
April 19, 2024
A new law introduced by Congress would raise the pay rate 15 percent for junior enlisted troops and seek improvements on a range of quality of life issues, such as pay and compensation, child care, housing, health care access, and military spouse employment.