The federal and local agencies investigating the May 3 theft of computer equipment containing personal data for millions of veterans and active and reserve military members have recovered the stolen laptop and external hard drive. According to the FBI’s Baltimore...

The fact that the stolen computer equipment has been recovered (see above) should not dissuade officials from correcting the “basic deficiencies” that led to this data loss, says Rep. Steve Buyer (R-Ind.), chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee. Buyer...

The Air Force has released its list of preferred beddown locations for the new combat search and rescue aircraft, currently dubbed CSAR-X, to replace its fleet of HH-60 helicopters. The sites are a mix of active and reserve facilities: Davis-Monthan...

The head of US Special Operations Command, Army Gen. Bryan Brown, had more good things to say about Air Force special operators during a Tuesday visit to Hurlburt Field, Fla., home of Air Force Special Operations Command and the Joint...

Two Ohio Air National Guard units have received new missions—one is probably very happy, while the other should just be glad to have a new role. The 179th Airlift Wing at Mansfield, slated to lose its elderly C-130 tactical transports,...

Despite a headline that proclaims the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Georgia is “feeling budget squeeze,” the ALC’s financial manager, Mike Mehrman, tells the Macon Telegraph that he is confident the center can handle the coming budget crunch. According...

TACP Awarded Silver Star: TSgt. Travis Crosby, a terminal attack control-qualified battlefield airman with the 15th Air Support Squadron at Ft. Stewart, Ga., has received a Silver Star for his actions during a hostile engagement in Iraq on April 4,...

Gen. Kevin Chilton formally assumed command of Air Force Space Command during a ceremony June 26 at Peterson AFB, Colo., home to AFSPC headquarters. Chilton, who succeeds now-retired Gen. Lance Lord, is the first former astronaut to earn a fourth...

A Delta IV rocket launched from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., on Tuesday, successfully boosting a National Reconnaissance Office satellite into orbit. Boeing officials say that the launch of the company’s Delta IV marks the first West Coast mission completed for the...

The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office has identified nine airmen missing in action from World War II. They are: 2nd Lt. Hugh L. Johnson Jr. of Montgomery, Ala.; 2nd Lt. Byron L. Stenen of Northridge, Calif.; 2nd Lt. John F. Green...

Fire and rescue crews from Whiteman AFB, Mo., went to the aid of local officials in nearby Clinton, Mo., when a building collapsed in the town trapping 10 people, one of whom died. In all, some 200 emergency response personnel...

When someone starts talking about ways to streamline operations, you might think old-timers would want to hit the snooze button. Not so for at least one 26-year employee at Ogden Air Logistics Center in Utah, who, according to Gen. Bruce...

A multi-organizational team led by Air Force Materiel Command’s Warfighter Sustainment Division is finding and returning aircraft parts that have gone missing—quite often because they’ve simply been sent to the wrong address or been misidentified and left to sit on...

Pararescue jumpers with Air Force Reserve Command’s 920th Rescue Wing at Patrick AFB, Fla., have been getting some practice for the July 1 space shuttle launch. That training has included what’s called a RAMZ (for rigging alternate method Zodiac) deployment,...

June 27, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 12 8 20 CAS/Armed Recon 54 25 79 Airlift 160 160 Air refueling 42 42 Total 66 33 202 301 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance