Airman Dies in Iraq
The Pentagon announced Sunday that A1C Carl Jerome Ware Jr., 22, of Glassboro, N.J., had died July 1 from a non-combat related cause at Camp Bucca, Iraq. The airman was deployed to Iraq from the 15th Security Forces Squadron, Hickam...
More VA Data Breaches Come to Light
More VA Data Breaches Come to Light: During a House Veterans’ Affairs hearing late last week, lawmakers chastised Veterans Affairs Secretary James Nicholson for, once again, not informing them of two incidents of data compromise—one in Minneapolis and one in...
What About the Free Credit Monitoring?
What About the Free Credit Monitoring?: Some members of the House Veterans Affair Committee expressed the belief that having recovered the equipment, the VA is no longer obligated to provide free credit monitoring to any of the more than 26...
Whether to Re-engine, or Not:
Air Force leaders are trying to find a way to squeeze more effectiveness out of the service’s on-average 26-year-old airframes and one consideration, says Gen. Bruce Carlson, head of Air Force Materiel Command, is the question of whether applying new...
Behind the JCA Scenes:
One area of contention between the Air Force and Army approach to procurement of a Joint Cargo Aircraft is a desire to ensure combat sustainability—for USAF that means acquiring technical data rights to whatever aircraft the services decide to buy,...
USAF Provides More “In Lieu Of” Forces:
USAF has been providing airmen to aid the Army with convoy and security work for some time and now the Air Force reports that last year it began providing other “in lieu of” forces to help the Army with medical...
North Carolina ANG Battling Western Blazes:
Fire-equipped C-130 Hercules from the North Carolina ANG’s 145th Airlift Wing have been reinforcing the US Forest Service this past week in Mesa, Ariz., battling two strong wildfires near Phoenix, the East Valley Tribune reports. Converting a Herc into a...
A Turnaround at the Academy:
US Air Force Academy official, Brig. Gen. Susan Desjardins, told lawmakers last week that the academy has “come a long way in addressing sexual assault and violence since the events of 2003 and before.” Desjardins, who is the new commandant...
Women, Minority Academy Entries Up
: USAFA officials say the 1,352 young people accepting appointments to the academy this year comprises 277 women—the largest number to enter basic cadet training in the school’s history. The Colorado Springs, Colo.-based school received 9,255 applications for admission to...
Supercomputer Off and Running:
The newest supercomputer at Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, went into production recently, providing advanced problem-solving capability, principally for DOD research and development and test and evaluation activities. The Falcon system, which is one of four supercomputers within DOD,...
Missing the Border Deadline?:
According to the Associated Press news service, the Bush Administration was about 2,000 troops shy of its goal to have 2,500 National Guardsmen on border duty by the end of June. National Guard Bureau officials told AP that there were...
Australians Stand Firm:
Australian Minister of Defense Brendan Nelson paid his first visit as Australia’s top defense official to the Pentagon June 28, vowing that his country will remain a solid coalition partner in Southwest Asia operations. During a visit with Defense Secretary...
US Forces Train with Bulgaria, Romania:
US Air Force in Europe’s 492nd Fighter Squadron, RAF Lakenheath, Britain, and US Army Europe’s 1st Armored Division will be training alongside Bulgarian and Romanian forces for Immediate Response 2006 to be conducted in Bulgaria and Romania from July 17-31....
RED HORSE Erects Huts for Kunsan Short-timers:
Various RED HORSE units teamed to construct 30 huts—commonly called South-East Asia, or SEA, huts from their use during the Vietnam War—to replace the tents at Kunsan AB, South Korea, that formerly housed airmen deployed to the base for short...
Research Office Studies Surprise Effect, Blogs, Lasers, etc.:
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research recently began funding several new initiatives that hope to improve defense operations from process prediction—understanding the surprise factor in complex systems—to analyzing blogs to determine patterns to aid in the war against terrorism....
Visiting Serbia:
Those US Air Forces in Europe F-16s that dropped in on Serbia recently were from the 555th Fighter Squadron, Aviano AB, Italy, according to Air Force journalist SrA. Sarah Gregory. Two 555th FS pilots and several Aviano F-16 maintenance and...
Air Sorties in the Global War on Terrorism
June 29-30, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 27 14 41 CAS/Armed Recon 88 42 130 Airlift 310 310 Air refueling 83 83 Total 115 56 393 564 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance