The Senate confirmed the promotion of Lt. Gen. William T. Hobbins to four-star rank and command of US Air Forces Europe. (DR, 09/27/05) Hobbins will replace Gen. Robert H. Foglesong, who confirmed earlier this year that he plans to retire....

The F/A-22s of the 27th Fighter Squadron are back home at Langley AFB, Va., after a two-week exercise flying out of Hill AFB, Utah. It was the first deployment for operational Raptors. One of the unit’s last phases of training...

Speaking of that Raptor deployment, the 1st Equipment Maintenance Squadron at Langley AFB, Va., sent 10 ammunition troops to help the fighter squadron carry out its work. The ammo airmen left before the F/A-22s made their cross-country flight so that...

The Air Force’s imaginary grid on Baghdad, developed to improve the speed and accuracy of air support to troops in contact with the enemy, is helping ground troops in other ways, Central Air Forces chief Lt. Gen. Walter Buchanan said...

Air Force relief efforts for the victims of the Pakistani earthquake continued this past weekend, with a total of 4.5 million pounds of relief delivered as of Oct. 30. The total amassed over Friday, Saturday, and Sunday was almost a...

A pair of combat air strikes in Iraq over the weekend by USAF F-15s targeted insurgents in the vicinity of Karabilah and in the vicinity of Baghdad. Both strikes used precision guided bombs.

While combat medics and rescue personnel are hard at work making sure wounded troops get the treatment they need as soon as possible, airmen of the 379th Expeditionary Medical Squadron make sure that the medicine and supplies are available. The...

A new runway ramp constructed specifically for use by airborne tankers opened for business last week at an undisclosed air base in Southwest Asia. The new ramp, covering 41.5 acres, ends more than two years of planning and construction efforts...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded program definition and risk reduction contracts worth $10 million for work on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, known as GOES-R, to Lockheed Martin and to the team of Northrop Grumman and Raytheon. The...

The Shah Never Did That: The Islamic Republic of Iran has successfully achieved earth orbit with its first-ever satellite. According to wire services reports, the Iranian Sina-1 spacecraft on Oct. 27 was launched from a Russian space center aboard a...

The FBI arrested Noshir Gowadia, a former Northrop Grumman engineer who worked on the development of the B-2 stealth bomber program, in Hawaii on Oct. 26 for allegedly passing secret technology to three foreign governments. FBI officials said that Gowadia...

Speaking at a Pentagon news conference Saturday, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and their Japanese counterparts announced a host of historic agreements between the two countries. Among the actions are movement of an estimated 7,000...

The Pentagon is balking at demands by Kyrgyzstan that the US military pay for past use of Manas Air Base, a hub for flights supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. (DR, 10/13/05) The country wants $80 million to compensate for...

The Air Force announced a new and improved communications department—one it believes will lead to better rapport with the American public. The service plans to install a two-star general to lead the communications directorate, which will subsume the office of...

Speaking at a news conference in his Tallahassee, Fla., office, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said that training needs for Air Force and Navy fighter pilots are more important than allowing offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The House...

October 29-30, 2005 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 20 12 – 32 CAS/Armed Recon 68 33 – 101 Airlift – – 345 345 Air refueling – – 64 64 Total 88 45 409 542 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation...