The new F-22 Raptor force at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, has sent 12 fighters and some 270 airmen to Andersen AFB, Guam, for a three-month deployment as a Pacific Region theater security package. The 12 Raptors arrived Jan. 18. Elmendorf sent...
The Pentagon announced Jan. 19 that SrA. Omar J. McKnight, 22, of Marrero, La., died Jan. 17 in a non-hostile incident in Iraq. McKnight deployed to Joint Base Balad from the 6th Security Forces Squadron at MacDill AFB, Fla. There...
An HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter deployed from the New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing to Afghanistan crashed Jan. 16 near Kabul with no injuries to crew or passengers, reports the Long Island Newsday. A Jan. 16 release from...
Draft versions of the solicitation for the restructured TSAT program are now circulating among industry, and the final version of the new request for proposal may be issued around April, Gary Payton, deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for Space...
TSAT satellites will represent a “huge step” in capability with their ability to provide wideband and secure communications down to the squad level of ground troops, Gary Payton, the Air Force’s point man for space issues, said last week. Tying...
The 120th Fighter Wing of the Montana Air National Guard conducted its first F-15 sortie late last week, reports KRTV news. The Great Falls-based Air Guard unit began replacing its F-16s with F-15s, courtesy of BRAC 2005, last year and...
The Air Force plan to transfer current housing at Minot AFB, N.D., to a private contractor does not sit well with Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), reports the Minot Daily News. Housing privatization is a DOD-wide initiative intended to let the...
Rhode Island officials reportedly have started a campaign that they hope will convince the Air Force to assign an active associate element of some 400 airmen to work with the Air National Guard’s 143rd Airlift Wing at Quonset State Airport....
Robert Hale, the person picked to control the Pentagon’s purse strings under the Obama Administration, told lawmakers last week that the Pentagon needs to “move away” from supplementals to fund its war operations. During his Jan. 15 nomination hearing before...
That’s what Michele Flournoy, under secretary of defense for policy nominee for the Obama Administration, told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week during her confirmation hearing. “I think our objective in Afghanistan has got to be to create a...
The Air Force has awarded a Bronze Star to TSgt. Patrick Ashford for action during his deployment to Iraq, reports The State newspaper. Ashford, who is with the 20th Security Forces Squadron at Shaw AFB, S.C., deployed for a year...
Two Louisiana Air National Guard F-15 pilots from the 159th fighter Wing responded to an alert last week, intercepting a small civilian aircraft that turned out to be pilotless—because, according to various news reports—pilot Marcus Schrenker had bailed out in...
Jan. 14-15, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 60 9 69 551 CAS/Armed Recon 80 76 156 1,458 Airlift 210 210 1,832 Air refueling 95 95 711 Total ` 530 4,552 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom...
