The Air Force has added $16 billion to its original $17.4 billion Fiscal 2007 emergency supplemental request, making a total of $33.4 billion for 2007, Air Force spokesperson Maj. Morshe Araujo told the Daily Report Tuesday. In late October, DOD...

The Air Force has not found the pilot of the F-16 that crashed in Iraq early Monday morning. An official statement did confirm that insurgents were in the vicinity at the time of the crash. Coalition ground forces had to...

Officials at Andersen AFB, Guam, have said the base will get around 3,000 new personnel in 2007 as part of the overall buildup of operations at the key Pacific region facility, reports Associated Press news service. Air Force leaders have...

The Air Force has confirmed that 1st Lt. Nonnie Dotson, a clinical nurse at Wilford Hall Medical Center in Texas, has been reported missing by her relative in Colorado. Dotson had applied for leave from Nov. 13-20, and the Rocky...

According to Gen. Ronald Keys, chief of Air Combat Command, “There’s always a balance between people who think you’re too sophisticated and you’ve got too much technological overmatch and the people who believe you could use more.” Keys was talking...

Air Force Security Forces are stretched thin by the need to defend forward based assets in Southwest Asia and that leaves USAF with a hole in its ability to secure permanent bases, says Gen. Ronald Keys, head of Air Combat...

The Texas Department of Insurance led the charge to get multi-state settlement agreements from four insurance companies to refund more than $70 million to some 93,000 consumers, including about 71,000 servicemembers, according to a Pentagon news release. The companies are...

The Air Force told the Government Accountability Office that a prime reason for its “unrealistic” cost estimates for space acquisitions is that “cost-estimating resources have atrophied over the years because of the previous downsizing of the workforce,” according to a...

Airmen and soldiers serving with the Methar Lam Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan distributed about a ton of school supplies to two Afghan schools. The supplies, some of which came from non-profit groups in the US, included backpacks, teacher’s kits,...

The Congressional newspaper The Hill reports that Congressional authorizers want to put their stamp on funding for the global war on terror, most of which has been in the form of emergency supplementals. So far, appropriators have been the only...

In San Antonio, construction is just finished on a new joint Veterans Affairs and Defense Department medical facility to be called the North Central Federal Clinic. Maj. Eric Peipelman, project manager for the 59th Medical Wing at Lackland AFB, Tex.,...

The Air Force is sending Brig. Gen. Alfred Flowers to head the Air Force Officer Accession and Training Schools, part of Air University at Maxwell AFB, Ala. Currently he is serving with US Special Operations Command as director of the...

Nov. 27, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 15 6 21 CAS/Armed Recon 36 46 82 Airlift 150 150 Air refueling 36 36 Total 51 52 186 289 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance