Maj. Gen. Roger Lempke, Nebraska’s adjutant general and president of the Adjutants General Association of the United States, has turned up the heat again in the ANG-USAF spat. Lempke’s latest move came courtesy of an op-ed in the USA Today,...

The number of UAVs—ah, that’s now UASes—in use in Southwest Asia just keeps growing. We reported some 750 in July; now Dyke Weatherington, DOD’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Planning Task Force deputy director, says there are “well over” 1,000 small, unmanned...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, announced Wednesday that Houston’s Ellington Field will host a new squadron of Predator UASes. It is one of several new sites at which the Air Force plans to base the unmanned aircraft under its...

In the announcement, Perry also re-emphasized his support for the Texas ANG’s 147th Fighter Wing and its F-16s, which are slated to be moved under the Pentagon’s BRAC recommendations.

Air Force Special Operations Command has completed its AOA for a replacement for its Vietnam-era MC-130 Combat Talon aircraft. AFSOC’s Capt. Elizabeth Paul noted that the new aircraft—now known as M-X—will need to carry more and fly farther and faster...

SBIRS Low, Alive and Well: The Pentagon plan to “rebaseline” the Space Surveillance and Tracking System, which is the current name for the SBIRS-Low constellation destined to support missile warning, should have “minimal effect” on the 2006 program, according to...

Chinese and Russian military forces kicked off their much-hyped joint military exercise Thursday, with warships, aircraft, and 10,000 troops gathering on China’s northern coastline ostensibly to thwart an unspecified terrorist threat. Various news reports already highlight possible diplomatic angles to...

It didn’t take the media long to start yapping at President Bush’s nominee to become the next Secretary of the Air Force, Michael W. Wynne. Most outlets rushed to report that Wynne, who has been a senior Pentagon official for...

The Pentagon recently named Misawa AB, Japan, as one of the five “best of the best” installations in DOD for 2005. The Commander in Chief’s Installation Excellence Award goes to facilities that provide excellent mission support using “resources available to...

Remember the Last of the Superfort Raids: Andersen Air Force Base joined the Guam Visitor’s Bureau on Aug. 15— the 60th anniversary of the day 143 B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 315th Bombardment Wing returned from a run over the...

The satellite gurus over at Air Force Space Command are making progress on modernizing the equipment, ground control systems, and military-user tools needed to upgrade the Global Positioning System. According to a Wednesday release from AFSPC, eight of the latest...

The 34th annual convention of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. opened this week in Orlando, Fla. Still living are an estimated 200 members of the nearly 1,000 Army Air Force pilots who trained at Tuskegee Army Air Base as fighter pilots...

The Overseas Basing Commission sent its final report to Congress and President Bush on Monday, reinforcing its May interim findings that the Pentagon did not adequately coordinate its plans to restructure US military assets abroad. The commissioners emphasized caution on...

Turns out that, according to recent reports, the Air Force has the smallest percentage of smokers of all the services. The most recent data, from 2002, shows the worst smoking case to be the Marine Corps at 38.7 percent. The...

Air Sorties From the Global War on TerrorismAugust 17, 2005 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 8 4 – 12 CAS/Armed Recon 48 21 – 69 Airlift – – 160 160 Air refueling – – 38 38 Total 56...