Army Lt. Gen. Steven Blum, director of the National Guard Bureau, told Washington-based defense reporters Tuesday morning that the Air Force’s planned reduction of 40,000 personnel will not include Air National Guardsmen. The Air Force stated late last year in...

The head of the National Guard Bureau, Lt. Gen. Steven Blum, said Tuesday that a key factor in the Air National Guard’s decision to opt out of Air Force plans to reduce personnel was that the Air Guard helps keep...

Army Lt. Gen. Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, firmly put aside the notion that the NGB chief should be given a seat on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He told defense reporters Tuesday that he has explained...

Airmen of the Massachusetts Air National Guard’s 104th Fighter Wing at Barnes Field and the local populace will get to see a presentation in mid-August on the plans to switch the wing from the A-10 to the F-15, reports The...

The Air Force Reserve Command C-130 unit based at Youngstown ARS, Ohio, got the OK to install infrared lights on two runways at the Youngstown-Warren Airport, which will enable the airmen of the 910th Airlift Wing to train using night...

Holding Up Nominations for a Good Cause?: Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) has put a hold on all civilian nominations emanating from the Defense Department, until DOD gets off its duff and improves the ability of overseas military members to cast...

Air Force and Northrop Grumman officials are winding up tests to determine whether production treatments would effectively protect the vehicle from electromagnetic interference. Testing has been taking place in the Benefield Anechoic Facility at Edwards AFB, Calif. The nose of...

The Council on Foreign Relations believes that current security reviews for foreign investment are adequate, even in the wake of the Dubai World Ports controversy when that company lost its possible acquisition of several US port operations. In a July...

Exercise Cooperative Cope Thunder in Alaska officially ends Saturday, but airmen from Misawa AB, Japan, plan to stay an extra week “to implement lessons learned during the exercise and to fine tune our flight tactics,” said Lt. Col. Stephen Williams,...

Veterans Affairs has decided not to consolidate its four Boston area hospitals into one medical center. A recently completed two-year study convinced officials not to centralize the Boston area VA medical services. Instead, officials will look at other options, which...

Despite progress by VA in providing “timely information” to Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom servicemembers and their families, according to a new Government Accountability Office report, the agency still faces hurdles in electronically accessing necessary DOD medical records,...

July 31, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 11 6 17 CAS/Armed Recon 45 22 67 Airlift 155 155 Air refueling 39 39 Total 56 28 194 194 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance