Late last week and over the weekend among the coalition assets that engaged Taliban members that had begun firing on coalition forces and Afghan civilians was a USAF B-1B bomber firing a 500-pound GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munition. US Central...
The Senate has confirmed Lt. Gen. Kevin Chilton for a fourth star and to lead Air Force Space Command. Chilton has been in his current post, commander of 8th Air Force, for less than a year. The Air Force has...
The Senate on May 19 also confirmed Maj. Gen. Craig McKinley for a third star and to lead the Air National Guard. McKinley currently serves as assistant deputy chief of staff for plans and programs on the Air Staff. He...
Folks who were looking skyward in the Charleston, S.C., area last week got treated to a phenomenal sight as the smoke from flares released by a C-17 flying over the Atlantic formed into a “smoke angel.” Air Force officials say...
The Air Force and Lockheed Martin conducted the first development flight test of the new extended range Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile last week. A B-1B bomber successfully fired the JASSM-ER over White Sands Missile Range, N.M., where the missile flew...
Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa is performing work that US officials consider a relatively low investment that will pay great dividends in aiding Africans to resist terrorism. US forces are helping Africans with everything from building schools to airlifting...
Here is a first-person article by The (Olympia, Wash.) Olympian reporter Scott Gutierrez, who flew with aircrews from McChord AFB, Wash., on a trip to Southwest Asia. Gutierrez got to spend a week with the McChord aircrews as they flew...
Air Force Special Operations Command has a new course to better familiarize pararescue and paramedic airmen with the world of casualty evacuation, and it includes the use of two “human-simulator” mannequins with computerized sensors that react to treatment. The first...
According to the International Herald Tribune, North Korea has deployed a ballistic missile that can reach the US to a launch site. The last time Pyongyang test fired a ballistic missile was in 1998. As IHT points out, now would...
The 12 airmen who make up the Air Terminal Operations Center at Ali Base, Iraq, work 24/7 moving passengers and cargo through this C-17 and C-130 airlift hub. In one month the ATOC team moves more than 700 tons of...
The Air Force has attributed the Feb. 15 death of Maj. Bryan Adrian, who was engaged in training to become a combat rescue officer, to a pre-existing heart condition, called Long QT Syndrome. Adrian, an Air National Guardsman with the...
According to US Air Forces in Europe officials, the C-17 dubbed “Spirit of Berlin” brought repeated expressions of amazement from its many visitors during the Berlin Air Show. It flew for spectators on opening day, then opened its crew door...
May 18-20, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 34 21 55 CAS/Armed Recon 132 88 220 Airlift 450 450 Air refueling 106 106 Total 166 109 556 831 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance