Sen. Byron Dorgan says the Air Force has shared its transition plan for Grand Forks AFB, N.D., taking it from an aerial refueling to an unmanned aerial vehicle mission. According to a statement from Dorgan, Air Force officials said Friday...

A tentative timeline unfurled last week by Air Force officials calls for deactivation of the first squadron of KC-135 tanker aircraft at Grand Forks AFB, N.D., in April 2008, reports the Grand Forks Herald. Officials completed a survey of the...

Air Force battlefield airmen and fighters and bombers have been using three towns in Louisiana to practice urban air strike skills. The towns of Deridder, Leesville, and Oakdale volunteered to let the Air Force conduct urban combat air support training—providing...

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday that the Air Force “is not just off on a strange mission” to eliminate some 40,000 personnel over the next five years. Rumsfeld was responding to a question about the planned cut and its...

We missed the hint earlier this month of a significant change within the Air Staff. It was the announcement that the Air Force has tapped Lt. Gen. David Deptula for assignment as the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for...

Some 120 Air Force Reserve Command security forces airmen who recently traveled to Camp Smith, Tex., for two weeks of combat training got “sustainment training with a twist,” said Maj. Wes White, operations officers of the 610th Security Forces Squadron,...

Retired Col. Frederick “Fritz” C.E. Oder, 86, died May 11 in Gloucester, Mass., from complications due to congestive heart failure, according to a May 19 Air Force Space Command statement. Oder helped foster the evolution of missile warning, communications, meteorology,...

The Air Force has confirmed that Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne has asked for the Pentagon Inspector General to investigate the circumstances surrounding award of a contract canceled earlier this year because of protests filed over the award—nearly $50 million...

There is a group of enlisted airmen at Edwards AFB, Calif., who serve as the Air Force’s only test parachutists. Members of the 418th Flight Test Squadron conduct developmental test and evaluation of all DOD aerodynamic deceleration systems. “We’re here...

Air Force officials say they have reached a major milestone with the recent signing of a record of decision for Dover AFB, Del., marking the last step toward the base’s efforts to remediate the 59 contaminated sites that put it...

Active and Air National Guard airmen at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, are absorbing their current new mission, flying and maintaining C-17 airlifters. Pilots of the 535th Airlift Squadron last week participated in a four-ship air drop training mission, getting needed multi-element...

May 17, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 12 6 18 CAS/Armed Recon 36 30 66 Airlift 150 150 Air refueling 33 33 Total 48 36 183 267 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance