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Three airmen were reportedly among the 30 US military personnel who died in the crash of an Army Chinook helicopter in eastern Afghanistan on Aug. 6. US defense officials said this was the single-deadliest incident for US forces since the...

The Pentagon’s $553 billion budget request for Fiscal 2012 is likely to get chopped by $28 billion due to the recently enacted Budget Control Act of 2011, according to Todd Harrison, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and...

Several C-27J transports, the Air National Guard’s newest aircraft, are now operating from Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, as part of the newly established 702nd Expeditionary Airlift Squadron. The unit flew its first-ever combat mission on Aug. 4. Air Guard and Army...

The Air Force announced last week that Hurlburt Field, Fla., is the preferred site to host an Air Force Reserve Command MQ-1 Predator remotely piloted aircraft squadron, pending an environmental assessment. “The Air Force looks forward to working with the...

The United States and Russia have made significant progress on implementing the New START agreement and are ready to begin discussing the next round of nuclear reductions, said Rose Gottemoeller, assistant secretary of state for arms control. “We still have...

Morocco last week celebrated the receipt of its first four new F-16 Block 52 fighters during a ceremony at Ben Guerrir Air Base, north of Marrakech, attended by senior Moroccan and US military officials. “The friendship between the US and...

The Air Force and its industry partners successfully launched NASA’s Juno spacecraft into space aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. “As always, the 45th Space Wing is pleased to have supported NASA on...

The pullout of US military equipment from Iraq is nearly 60 percent complete, according to Maj. John Rozsnyai, head of US Transportation Command’s joint planning team for the withdrawal. So far, US military aircraft, trucks, and ships, along with commercial...

Lockheed Martin announced that it has inducted the eighth C-5 transport into the modernization line at its facility in Marietta, Ga. Workers there will elevate the massive airlifter to superstar status, giving it significant reliability and performance enhancements, including new...