The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph offers the first public confirmation that the Air Force has decided not to apply the avionics modernization upgrade to its oldest C-130 Hercules. In response to Telegraph questions about workload share that might go to the...

The House Science Committee began what it believes will be a series of meetings to figure out how to proceed with the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System—a critical new weather satellite that is expected to serve both military and...

Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.) spotlighted, at last week’s House Science Committee hearing, just a few of what he termed “enormous risks” that the NPOESS team has built into its revamped program. For one, he noted that the new plan “assumes...

The famed Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team that fought in the World War II European Theater now has a new C-17 airlifter carrying its slogan “Go for Broke.” At a ceremony Thursday at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, the seventh of...

The Tanker Task Force participating in Alaska’s Northern Edge exercise comprises 17 KC-135 aerial refuelers from 12 active, Guard, and Reserve units from across the country. Their job has been to refuel more than 100 aircraft every day during the...

Russian officials told journalists Thursday that experimental models of the country’s fifth-generation fighter likely will fly in 2007. They will not have true fifth-gen engines, which are still under development, reports the Russian News & Information Agency. Officials do expect...

The North Dakota Air National Guard’s Happy Hooligans of the 119th Fighter Wing now are slated to get C-21s—the Air Force’s version of a small business Learjet—to replace the F-16 fighters it will lose under BRAC 2005, according to Associated...

The Gallup Organization reports that a new USA Today/Gallup Poll asking Americans whether they felt the war in Iraq has made certain things better or worse off. While 48 percent believe the Iraqi people are better off, some 42 percent...

Airmen from Hickam AFB, Hawaii, left this week for Suva, Fiji, to participate in a training mission for Fijian military leaders and humanitarian programs. Lt. Col. Mylene Huynh, the mission commander and a PACAF international health affairs preventive medicine physician,...

Airmen from three Air Force Reserve Command civil engineering units pitched in on a readiness project designed to provide a 40-acre complex to serve elderly, disabled, and disadvantaged residents of Hawaii’s north short. Members of the 908th Civil Engineer Squadron,...

The Air Force’s two top leaders have released a new Letter to Airmen that urges airmen to consider how their “personal well-being affects [their] job performance” and, by extension, the unit mission. The leaders cite hurricane season as an example for airmen who live in hurricane-prone areas to consider “how prepared you are to protect your family financially.” Read the entire letter here.

Adm. William Fallon, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, says the US has made some headway in its efforts to engender more transparency about China’s military endeavors. Yet, Fallon told Associated Press news service, that Beijing has not shifted enough for...

The four airmen USAF announced in December 2005 as the recipients of the 2005 Lance P. Sijan Air Force Leadership Award came to Washington, D.C., this week to participate in a Pentagon ceremony, officiated by Lt. Gen. Arthur J. Lichte,...

June 13, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 15 7 22 CAS/Armed Recon 52 28 80 Airlift 150 150 Air refueling 39 39 Total 67 35 189 291 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance