The new Air Force Chief of Staff has glowing words for USAF’s newest airlifter, the C-17: It has proved “its worth in gold” in both the global war on terrorism and humanitarian relief. At Hickam AFB, Hawaii, where he held...

Fifteen of the Air Force’s F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighters have returned from South Korea to Holloman AFB, N.M. The fighters and some 300 airmen from the 49th Fighter Wing at Holloman were stationed at Kunsan Air Base for the past...

Col. Susan Desjardins, currently commander of the 437th Airlift Wing, Charleston AFB, S.C., will replace Brig. Gen. Johnny Weida as the commandant of cadets at the US Air Force Academy. Weida, who has been at the academy only a year...

Within 48 hours after the devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake that left thousands dead across Pakistan, India, and parts of Afghanistan, a C-17 crew from the 7th Airlift Squadron, McChord AFB, Wash., picked up 12 pallets of food, water, medicine. and blankets...

The US Senate approved the 2006 defense appropriations bill, including an amendment designed to keep Cannon AFB, N.M., intact until the base gets a new mission. The Clovis News-Journal reports that Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.)...

Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.) is heading up an effort in Congress to extinguish an initiative that allows new military recruits to opt to serve a portion of their service commitment in the Peace Corps. Kline argues that military volunteerism is...

A robot-driven VW Touareg named “Stanley” completed the 132-mile Mojave Desert course of the DARPA Grand Challenge in six hours and 53 minutes, using its computers and sensors to navigate rough desert and mountainous terrain. “Stanley” was designed by a...

High-profile visitors to US Joint Forces Command keep rolling in to the Norfolk, Va.-based seat of military transformation, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice following close on the heels of Rep. Ike Skelton. (DR, 10/10/05) Rice’s particular interest, though, was...

The Defense Intelligence Agency’s covert operatives need to be able to approach possible information sources in the US while not identifying themselves as government agents, the DIA’s General Counsel George Pierce tells the Washington Post. Pierce was defending Senate Intelligence...

Army Secretary Francis Harvey told reporters that his service would begin accepting more people who score in the bottom third of the military’s standard aptitude test—the lowest category suitable for service, according to DOD standards. According to the Baltimore Sun,...

Pacific Air Forces has started Cope Thunder 2006, an annual air combat training exercise that will run through Oct. 21. More than 1,000 active duty and Air National Guard airmen along with 87 aircraft will take part in PACAF’s largest...

The Pentagon awarded Lockheed Martin a $6.5 billion contract to cover additional work required to fix problems identified early with the weight of the short takeoff and landing version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. In the 2005 appropriations round,...

Pratt & Whitney officials say they will be delivering two F135-PW-100 Joint Strike Fighter engines to the Arnold Engineering Development Center, Arnold AFB, Tenn., late in October to start conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) qualification tests that will run through...

The US Air Force Warfare Center is the new name for the Air Warfare Center at Nellis AFB, Nev., according to the Air Force. Officials say the name change more accurately captures the mission of the center to integrate space...

The Air Force has tapped Northrop Grumman to provide technical and engineering support personnel to expand USAF’s national air defense force. The five-year, $64 million contract will fund hiring personnel “with appropriate security clearances to provide the Air Force with...

There are still people who do not know that the military services employ civilians. It came as welcome news to many of the 300 Hispanic teens attending the Viva Technology Day, co-sponsored by DOD and the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement...

The Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference recently honored Air Force Capt. Eduardo D. Aguilar at its “most promising military engineer” for 2005. He serves as chief of the Block IIF space integration team for the Global Positioning System, at...

October 7-9, 2005 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 29 15 – 44 CAS/Armed Recon 148 72 – 220 Airlift – – 515 515 Air refueling – – 122 122 Total 177 87 637 901 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation...