The results are in from the pilots who are defining operational deployment procedures for the Air Force Special Operations Command new CV-22—they like it big time. One of the two pilots from the 8th Special Operations Squadron, veteran MC-130H Combat...

The new C-17 transport aircraft “came of age” in the Global War on Terror when it began delivering supplies in the combat theater to help replace ground convoy missions, Gen. Duncan McNabb, head of Air Mobility Command, said at a...

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker continued his plea for more money for the Army during remarks at the Association of the US Army conference in Washington this week. He and Army Secretary Francis Harvey have not submitted the...

Air National Guard airmen from the 26th Range Squadron at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho deployed to Andersen AFB, Guam to lend their expertise to the Multiple Threat Emitter System, or MUTES, used to simulate air defense threats to train B-52...

Congress wants a new “independent” assessment of the machinations surrounding national security space to be conducted over the next year. A stipulation within the 2007 defense authorization bill, awaiting signature by President Bush, calls for a two-part review and assessment....

The Alabama Air National Guard is one step closer to getting a new operations and training facility for the 187th Fighter Wing at Dannelly Field, Ala., reports the Montgomery Advertiser. Officials broke ground on a new $10.9 million facility that...

Several Canadian Leopard tanks got a ride on the C-17 “Spirit of McChord” transport going into Kandahar AB, Afghanistan from Manas AB, Kyrgyzstan. The 817th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron’s Det. 1 from McChord AFB, Wash., moved the tanks and supporting equipment...

In the 2007 defense authorization billed, passed by Congress late last month and now awaiting the President’s signature, lawmakers have directed the Pentagon to create a joint technology office on hypersonics to oversee all military programs and coordinate with NASA....

The pilot of an F-16C aircraft that crashed into the waters off Kunsan AB, Korea March 14 failed to follow technical orders “in a timely manner” when his fighter’s flight control system malfunctioned, according to an account of the accident...

Boeing has begun to prepare the first C-17 aircraft destined for the Royal Australian Air Force for its first flight later this month, according to a Boeing news release. The company just finished painting it in RAAF markings at the...

Lockheed Martin and ITT are teaming to vie to build USAF’s next generation Global Positioning System Block III satellite, according to a Lockheed press release. As in their previous partnership on the GPS Block IIR and IIR-M series, Lockheed will...

Veterans Affairs Secretary James Nicholson proclaimed that the community-based outpatient clinic in Newark, Ohio, is a “permanent facility” when he dedicated the facility Tuesday. The 3,500-square-foot Newark clinic had opened in March 2004 as a temporary VA clinic. A VA...

Oct. 10, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 18 8 26 CAS/Armed Recon 41 42 83 Airlift 150 150 Air refueling 39 39 Total 59 50 189 298 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance