July 10, 2006 | Air & Space Forces Magazine

The Name is Lightning II:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgThe Air Force has chosen the name Lightning II for the new...

Another Air Guard Unit Saved?:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgMississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says that the state’s Air National Guard wing...

Making Cargo Fly:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgThe logistics airmen at Balad AB, Iraq, have turned the base into...

B-1 Pilot Nabs 4,000 Flight Hours:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgLt. Col. Jeff Roetzel with the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron recently passed...

Toting Up His First Year:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgGen. William Looney, writes in a commentary on his first year as...

PACAF Top Is Pacific Veteran:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgThe new Command Chief Master Sergeant for Pacific Air Forces, CMSgt. Anthony...

The Extent of Our Interests:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgDefense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bristled last week during a barrage of questions...

North Korea Pundit Party:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgWith the Fourth of July fireworks show put on by North Korea...

12th AF Gets New Chief:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgLt. Gen. Norman R. Seip assumed command of 12th Air Force and...

AFIT Has New and Old Ties to Space:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgAir Force Institute of Technology officials noted recently that AFIT has bred...

Russia’s Latest Aircraft Plans:

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.orgMoscow now says it will purchase 58 Su-34 fighter-bombers by 2015 and...

CRS Crunches the War Numbers:

According to the latest Congressional Research Service accounting of the cost of operations in the Global War on Terror, the Administration would have spent about $319 billion on operations in Iraq and $88 billion for Afghanistan. These numbers include the most recently approved Fiscal 2006 emergency supplemental funding, signed into law June 15. DOD has spent another $26 billion on enhanced base security. CRS calculates that the average monthly Pentagon tab for Iraqis about $6.4 billion and for Afghanistan is $1.3 billion. The Congressional analysts also note that when compared to Fiscal 2004 these averages are 28 percent higher for Iraq and 18 percent higher for Afghanistan.