Remember the tactical fighter review Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England ordered last year to look for ways to streamline the fighter fleet? According to Reuters news service, the study finds that the Air Force should get up to 77 more...

A Tucson, Ariz.-based group is eyeing Cannon AFB, N.M.—which is in search of a new mission—as a potential spot to gain relief from some of the military aircraft noise generated by flights out of nearby Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Some...

Nellis Seeks Range Upgrades, More Students: Officials at Nellis AFB, Nev., would like to expand and upgrade the base’s bombing and gunnery ranges in Nevada and California and double the number of students attending Air Combat Command’s Expeditionary Readiness Training...

Check out this photo of one of the “exercises” a volunteer must undergo if he wants to qualify for training to become an Air Force pararescuemen. This was just a “screening” session. If an individual passes, he then undergoes 10...

Shaw Now Has Second Flight Recorder: The Navy is turning over to the Air Force a second flight recorder from the F-16 that crashed into the ocean on April 5 during a training mission off the South Carolina coast, according...

The 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin AFB, Fla., has elements of the 410 Tactical Fighter (Operational Training) Squadron from Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada, visiting for a little dissimilar air combat training. It’s an annual arrangement, according to the Pensacola News-Journal....

Combat Balloon Lifts Off: A host of combat experiments are under way this week during the 2006 Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment, including one that will employ balloons staged in “near space” to aid line-of-sight communications on the ground. Dubbed “Combat...

JEFX To Build a Better CAOC: Engineers at Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom AFB, Mass., are testing the Combined Air Operations Center of the near future at Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment 2006. The ESC personnel are responsible for standing up all...

C4ISR Center Provides Real-Life Training: The Air Force’s Pentagon Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence-Surveillance-Reconnaissance Visualization Center recently was the setting for Air Force and Coast Guard leaders who played out a homeland defense exercise spread across the country. One scenario...

The Gallup Poll has released a fresh survey on issues that are biting at the American public—and the war in Iraq is at the top of the list. The new survey, released April 25, shows that 29 percent of Americans...

DSB Sees Dearth of Combatant Command Input: The Defense Science Board has just released a second volume from its 2005 Summer Study entitled “Transformation: A Progress Assessment.” This portion covers supporting work that took a look at DOD’s combat operations...

April 24, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 11 6 17 CAS/Armed Recon 50 23 73 Airlift 150 150 Air refueling 33 33 Total 61 29 183 273 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance