Daily Report

The Air Force announced on Friday it was grounding 15 F-35As, including 10 operational jets, due to a problem in avionics cooling lines caused by a subcontractor. The issue, which was first identified in early September about one month after...

Airmen from Barksdale AFB, La., deployed to the Middle East earlier this month to continue hammering ISIS in B-52s. The airmen from the 11th Bomb Squadron, 20th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Squadron, and the 2nd Operations Squadron deployed to Al...

F-35s have returned to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, for two weeks of training in a deployed setting. The F-35s, assigned to the 61st Fighter Squadron at Luke AFB, Ariz., arrived at the Idaho base on Sept. 10 and will “practice...

A coalition airstrike on Sept. 7 killed a senior ISIS leader who served as the group’s minister of information, the Pentagon announced. The strike near Raqqa, Syria, killed Wa’il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad, or Dr. Wa’il, who led the group’s...

The Space-Based Infrared Systems’ mission control station is on track to be operationally accepted in November, Col. Kerri Mellor, division chief of the Air Force Exploitation Capabilities Division, said Friday. Command and control of the SBIRS satellites and payloads were...

SSgt. Jamie Zimmer, an intelligence analyst with the 374th Operations Support Squadron at Moody AFB, Ga., is one of the Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2016. As a senior airman, Zimmer was instrumental in establishing the...

SrA. Jasmin Figueroa, an emergency services technician with the 51st Medical Operations Squadron at Osan AB, South Korea, is one of the Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2016. Figueroa facilitated five specialty clinics and trained 14...

Eight F-15E Strike Eagles from the 494th Fighter Squadron at RAF Lakenheath, England, and approximately 130 airmen are taking part in NATO tactical leadership training at Los Llanos AB, Spain, until Oct. 7. The training is meant to prepare flight...

The Air Force plans to allow for private use of data provided by Space-Based Infrared Systems for civil applications, Col. Kerri Mellor, division chief of the Air Force’s Exploitation Capabilities Division, said Friday. “The intent of these mission areas is...

The Navy announced Thursday that pilot error, combined with weather and fatigue as contributing factors, caused Blue Angel #6 to crash June 2 near Smyrna, Tenn. Marine Corps pilot Capt. Jeff Kruss was killed in the crash, which also resulted...