BRAC Chairman Anthony Principi says he’s working on a bridge between USAF and officials whose states stand to lose Air National Guard units or aircraft or both. In a Tuesday night broadcast interview on C-SPAN, Principi said his panel is...
If Principi holds any high cards, he’ll have to play’em fast. The BRAC panel’s final deliberations start Wednesday and supposedly end Friday. Their final recommendation must go to President Bush by Sept. 8, and it has to go to the...
Republican Sen. John Warner took a step that at least raises interesting questions about his support for the BRAC process. Readers of the Washington Post opened their newspapers on Wednesday to see, on the front page, a blast from the...
Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld’s take on the BRAC process so far is that the Pentagon provided “certified data” while everything that has come out of other sources since is “marketing data.” One has to give more weight to certified data,...
Air Force Special Operations Command may well get its own Predator squadron as early as this fall. An AFSOC spokeswoman, Capt. Elizabeth Paul, said the new unit, comprising 24 of the unmanned aerial vehicle (or, for those already into the...
Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, Washington’s chief negotiator on North Korean nukes, told reporters Tuesday that Washington seeks more than just an arms control agreement. Much more. Hill, who heads back to Beijing next week for more talks, said,...
Ready for a new esoteric comparison? According to Lt. Col. Scott Gericke at Incirlik AB, Turkey, the base has moved so much gear and supplies to Iraq since becoming a cargo hub on June 1 that the cargo would extend...
According to the Pacific Daily News, USAF forces on Guam Monday unveiled the $32.8 million hangar built to house B-2 stealth bombers at Andersen Air Force Base. The hangar was built of concrete and steel meant to withstand typhoons registering...
North Korea has once again called the annual US and South Korean two-week exercise Ulchi Focus Lens, which began on Aug. 22, an intimidation tactic. This time, the lunatic regime is claiming that the exercise is meant to make the...
Russia’s top defense official—Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov—plans to observe the Russia-China military maneuvers up close and personal beginning Wednesday, according to the Russian News & Information Agency. Ivanov is scheduled to meet up with his Chinese counterpart, Col. Gen. Cao...
In a recent editorial, pro-war editor William Kristol of the Weekly Standard accused Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon of emitting an “inescapable whiff of weakness and defeatism.” Soon, the Empire struck back, with Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita calling Kristol’s...
The General Electric Rolls-Royce partnership to produce F-35 Joint Strike Fighter engines received a $2.5 billion contract to “transition the development engine into a long-term production program,” say GE officials. The team’s F136 engine is slated to make its first...
USAF engineers used the recent Alaska Shield/Northern Edge to practice their airfield set-up capabilities by constructing lighting on a rural airstrip in Red Devil, Alaska, 250 air miles west of Anchorage. Going by air is the only way to reach...
The VA has opened a new national cemetery—at least five acres of the eventual 80 acres—in Washington County, some 12 miles south of Pittsburgh. VA officials opened the initial site—accommodating some 3,700 burial spaces—last week to veterans and their family...
The Pentagon plans to hold a one-year open enrollment period beginning Oct. 1 for military retirees who declined some or all coverage in the Survivor Benefit Plan. You know who you are. Read our coverage of SBP here. Want to...
August 22, 2005 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 8 4 – 12 CAS/Armed Recon 50 20 – 70 Airlift – – 140 140 Air refueling – – 39 39 Total 58 24 179 261 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation...