Daily Report

The Air Force announced Feb. 9 that the remains of Maj. Kenneth Bourland, 37, of Birmingham, Ala., were found Feb. 7 at the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where he had traveled on official business for US Southern Command on...

Air Force Secretary Michael Donley last week told airmen with the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, that their activities in areas like close air support, airlift, and intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance are critical to the success of US forces in...

Rep John Murtha, (D-Pa.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee’s defense panel, passed away Monday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., according to his spokesman Mathew Mazonkey. Murtha was 77. Mazonkey said the Congressman died peacefully in his hospital...

The Air Force plans to have three squadrons of aircraft oriented around partnering with nascent allied air forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, according to Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz. In a recent interview, Schwartz said: “We will have...

The secret, or “black” portion of the Air Force’s budget, although constrained, is producing useful capabilities, Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said in a recent interview. Offering a peek behind the curtain, Schwartz said that there are things in...

The Air Force appreciates that C-17 transports are selling reasonably well around the world; foreign orders have helped keep the line open by filling production slots over the years. But the Air Force won’t buy any more of them to...

As the political debate heats up again over the engines for the F-35 strike fighter, Pratt & Whitney, maker of the F135, the current powerplant, says things are heating up at its end, too, but in a good way. On...

Officials at Maxwell AFB, Ala., celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Air Force Officer Training School Feb. 5-7 with three days of events that drew several hundred alumni and guests. The school has been located at Air University’s Holm Center...

Air Sorties in Southwest Asia, Feb. 4, 2010 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 32 9 41 1,937 CAS/Armed Recon 21 65 86 3,145 Airlift 151 151 5,553 Air refueling 45 45 1,475 Total 323 12,110 OIF=Operation Iraqi...