Speculators in the F-35 basing game believe a statement by the BRAC commission heralds Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, as a prime candidate for the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Under the BRAC plan, USAF will strip the Idaho base of...

With Wilma bearing down on Florida, Air Force Reserve Command officials at Homestead ARB, Fla., began early evacuation of the 482nd Fighter Wing’s F-16 fighters to Georgia and Texas. Air National Guard officials relocated the 125th Fighter Wing’s F-15s at...

Central Command Air Forces performed multiple air strikes on targets in Afghanistan and Iraq over the weekend. On Oct. 21, USAF F-16s and F-15s struck buildings used by insurgents in the vicinity of Karbala and Husaybah, Iraq. On the same...

Some of the F-15 Eagles assigned to Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan, are getting an extended life courtesy of a $5.2 million upgrade program, called “Pride Dock.” Contractors and airmen with the 18th Maintenance Group at Kadena will inspect and replace...

Gen. Lance Lord, head of Air Force Space Command, tells us that conditions are auspicious for commercial space sector business and for the commercial and military space sectors to find a common ground that will benefit both. So, will there...

Pacific Air Forces leaders have been touting the coming of a UAV force for the Pacific region. But, first here comes the pint-size brigade—a 30-pound weather UAV. Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation technicians have flown the first “Weatherscout” test...

A half-dozen Aviation Resource Managers from the 353rd Combat Training Squadron have been busy up at Eielson AFB, Alaska, managing the annual Cope Thunder exercise. The ARMs are the specialists that coordinate and schedule the air-refueling, bombing, airlift, rescue, and...

Cope Thunder, first flown in 1976, provided air-to-air, air-to-ground, and combat support missions against a realistic set of real and simulated threats, say PACAF officials. “This Cope Thunder was our Air Expeditionary force spin-up for any tasking the Air Force...

Gen. Lance Lord of AFSPC says that last week’s Pacific Space Leadership Forum provided an opportunity for Pacific theater allies to learn what space can do for them. In a Daily Report interview, Lord said, “Space is helping us deal...

Is there a possible latch-up between the Army and the Air Force to jointly develop a new intelligence-gathering aircraft? Considering the Army’s Aerial Common Sensor aircraft program—which is being worked with the Navy—is in trouble, we guess it makes sense...

They may be retired and may have fought their war 60 years ago, but five of the Tuskegee Airmen went to Iraq to visit with present-day members of their famed unit—the 332nd Fighter Group—at the behest of US Central Command...

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has added his voice to the Administration chorus chanting “veto, veto” if lawmakers enact a proposed $7 billion cut to the President’s request for the Fiscal 2006 defense spending bill. Of particular note in a letter...

The US and South Korea agreed last week to leave an American commander in charge—for the time being—of the combined US-South Korean forces in the event of a war on the peninsula.

Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Command airmen have until Oct. 28 to decide whether or not they will purchase Tricare Reserve Select medical coverage. There are rules; read more here.

Commissary patrons may have their Christmas gift shopping made easier this year with the advent of “Virtual Commissary,” a new Internet shopping service. The Defense Commissary Agency says its venture into online shopping offers a variety of gift baskets and...

October 21-23, 2005 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 31 15 – 46 CAS/Armed Recon 153 66 – 219 Airlift – – 515 515 Air refueling – – 106 106 Total 184 81 621 886 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation...