Daily Report

Jan. 7, 2014

Put Your Thinking Caps On

The Air Force Scientific Advisory Board will formally kick off its Fiscal 2014 studies on Tuesday during its quarterly meeting. The board will convene in Arlington, Va. Air Force spokesman Ed Gulick confirmed to the Daily Report on Jan. 6...

Take it Personally

The average number of breaches to personally identifiable information on the Air Force Network has decreased, but there is still much work to do to prevent future incidents, said Gen. William Shelton, head of Air Force Space Command. “We’ve all...

A Decade over the Baltic

Four F-15Cs and more than 150 airmen from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath, Britain, took rotational charge of NATO’s Baltic air policing mission in Lithuania from Belgian F-16s. This marked the 34 successive multinational rotation and the fourth...

Adios, Pedro

HH-60G rescue helicopters stood on alert at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, for the last time on New Year’s Eve. Aircrew, pararescuemen, and the machines of the 26th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron saved more than 2,400 US and coalition lives since beginning around-the-clock...

Turbocharger Failure, Wind Gust led to Predator Crash

Failure of the turbocharger on an MQ-1 remotely piloted aircraft, coupled with wind gusts as the pilot attempted to land the vehicle, led to the airplane’s crash at Jalalabad AB, Afghanistan, last June, announced Air Combat Command on Monday. The...

Raytheon Selected to Supply Nuclear Communications Terminals

The Air Force chose Raytheon to supply the Global Aircrew Strategic Network Terminals that will transmit emergency messages to wing command posts and the bomber, tanker, and reconnaissance aircrews supporting nuclear and nonnuclear strategic missions, announced the company. The terminals,...

US Ship Will Dispose of Syrian Chemical Weapons

The US military is preparing to dispatch the specially configured merchant ship Cape Ray to the Mediterranean Sea in the next several weeks to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile. This marks the first time ever that the United States will...

Airmen Construct Maintenance Facility at Kandahar

Airmen of the 577th Expeditionary Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force Squadron are helping to erect a new vehicle maintenance facility at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, according to a base release. “The purpose of this construction is so that vehicle maintenance has...

Going Local

Members of the Connecticut Air National Guard’s 103rd Airlift Wing in East Granby launched the first locally generated sortie with one of the unit’s newly assigned C-130H transports, according to a unit release. A local aircrew, augmented by New York...

From Flight to Squadron

The Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Operations Support Flight in Louisville recently became a squadron. “Thank you sincerely for the challenges that you’ve faced in the past, for the work you accomplish today, and for the obstacles that you will...