The Pentagon has identified an airman who was killed during operations in Afghanistan Saturday as SrA. Adam P. Servais, 23, of Onalaska, Wis. Servais was a member of Air Force Special Operations Command’s 23rd Special Tactics Squadron at Hurlburt Field,...

If Congress has its way, the Pentagon will have to restore the alternate engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program—but the new program director says that will cost airplanes. Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles Davis told Bloomberg News that...

Former head of US Transportation Command, retired Air Force Gen. John Handy, says that dismantling the C-17 production line now will limit America’s ability to “adequately support the war against terrorists.” Writing in the Los Angeles Times Friday, Handy maintains...

Boeing on Friday directed its C-17 program suppliers to “stop work on uncommitted airplanes.” The company said that it could no longer “continue carrying the program,” after spending its own money for more than a year to sustain the production...

USAF A-10 Warthogs supplying non-stop close air support for renewed fighting in Afghanistan this summer still have to undergo their 400-flight hour maintenance routine. A-10 maintainers at Bagram Air Base work 24/7 on two Warthogs at once to maintain the...

The summer crop of A-10 pilots flying out of Bagram AB, Afghanistan, are a true mixed bag—almost 50/50 active and reserve. The active duty pilots hail from Spangdahlem AB, Germany, and the Air Force Reserve Command pilots are from Whiteman...

The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph has gotten internal documents that indicate the fears of folks at Robins AFB, Ga., are true—the Air Force has decided to move critical civilian personnel functions such as classification to the Air Force Personnel Center in...

To combat the “aging out” of space expertise, Lockheed Martin is taking proactive steps to train the next generation of space experts. Fifty percent of Lockheed’s hires each year are new college graduates. James Crocker, Lockheed’s vice president of civil...

US Air Force maintainers finished work early—way early—on some mighty unusual aircraft for USAF airmen. A 16-member project team, comprising airmen from Edwards AFB, Calif., Hill AFB, Utah, Robins AFB, Ga., and Tinker AFB, Okla., stripped down and rebuilt four...

The Air Force has taken point on an effort to gain insight into how DOD might close several “high priority capability gaps” in the nation’s homeland air and cruise missile defense of North America. According to a request for information, the services and combatant commands identified “nine overarching capability gaps” in a functional needs statement. One gap concerns a lack of “accurate information” supplied in a format compatible with NORAD’s common operating picture. Another identifies “inadequate surveillance coverage” and “weather limitations” coupled with airborne sensor endurance factors. NORAD also wants a better means to identify air vehicle “type, tail number, flight plan, nation of origin, etc.” and to be able to distinguish “with 100 percent reliability” between air and cruise missile vehicles. USAF is taking all ideas by Sept. 29.

Some USAF F-16 pilots participating in Viper Lance ‘06 in Romania have gotten to fly the backseat of Romanian Air Force MiG-21s and returned the favor to their Romanian counterparts. Viper pilot 1st Lt. Coleman McDonald says the MiG-21 Lancer...

The Pentagon has begun to craft the governing guidance that will usher the Defense Department’s blue-collar workforce from the Federal Wage System to the new National Security Personnel System, reports Government Executive. The work has begun despite a federal court...

Retired Col. Herschel H. “Herky” Green, who amassed 18 aerial victory credits during World War II, died Aug. 16 in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., of cancer, reports the Daily Breeze. He was 86. Green served in the European and African...

Air National Guard doctors, nurses, medical technicians, and pharmacists from a variety of Air Guard units deployed to Africa for Natural Fire 2006, a training exercise involving some 1,000 military personnel from the US, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The goal...

Aug. 17, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 13 8 21 CAS/Armed Recon 44 26 70 Airlift 160 160 Air refueling 40 40 Total 57 34 200 291 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance