Two Airmen Killed, One Injured:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgUS Central Command Air Forces officials say two US Air Force personnel...

A Better B-2 Bomber Measure

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgThere was a disconnect between the paper mission capable rate and the...

AMC Tackles “Velocity Initiatives” for C-5s

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgAir Mobility Command’s new commander of 18th Air Force, Maj. Gen. James...

Tanker Gets a New ROBE

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgA KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft from Fairchild AFB, Wash., has been fitted...

Hanscom Has a New Formula—Falconer Math

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgThe Air Force now has 5+1+1 “Falconer” air and space operations centers...

OKALC Leans Its Way Into a Paint Job:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgThe folks in the paint shop at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics...

DSB Tackles New Tall Order

The Defense Science Board’s good rep faces a keen challenge with a 2006 summer study tasking—identify new ways the military can “counter or negate [non-state actor] safe havens and provide more effective capability in the new mission areas [of stability operations and domestic civil support].” There are six other pieces to this tasking, which the Pentagon has called “The 2006 Summer Study on 21st Century Strategic Technology Vectors.” The tasks range from a review of previous attempts to identify critical technologies covering these missions to identification of “mechanisms to accelerate and assure” technology transition into military capabilities. Whew!

US Airmen Join Off-Base South Korean Police Patrols

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgThe 8th Security Forces Squadron no longer restricts its law enforcement operations...

The Marines Have Landed—at Grand Forks

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgThe Marine Corps version of the V-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft arrived...

And On Another Note About VTOL Aircraft

On Another Note About VTOL Aircraft: The Defense Science Board has been working diligently to assess what the military will need in the way of vertical take off and landing (VTOL) and short take off and landing (STOL) aircraft through the first half of the 21st century. A report by this DSB task force is due in June. The tasking memo notes that the lack of investment in rotary wing aircraft “may have produced” aircraft that are “poorly suited” to current and future missions, but it also says their design may be inherently wrong for the “non-linear battlefield.”

New Simulators Take SF Training to Next Level

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgThe 61st Security Forces Squadron at Los Angeles AFB, Calif., has a...

Taking a Walk in Test Pilot Boots

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgThe US Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB, Calif., is...

Let’s Get Together in Mississippi:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgNavy Capt. Curt Goldacker, commander of Training Air Wing One at NAS...

SBIRS Team Completes Thermal Vacuum Test:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgThe industry team working the Space Based Infrared System satellite program—despite cutbacks...

Reservists Train for Contingency Scenarios:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgSome 43 airmen of the 939th Air Refueling Wing at Portland, Ore.,...

New Personnel System Faces Dollar Scrutiny:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgFour key senators have asked the GAO to take a closer look...

Bringing Birds Back To Guam:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgAir Force officials at Andersen AFB, Guam, are helping local conservation officials...

Air Sorties in the Global War on Terrorism

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgJanuary 19, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 17 4...