The Air Force has selected Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass., as one of three full inspection and repair facilities for the service’s mammoth C-5 airlifters. Earlier this week, Air Mobility Command revealed it had selected Dover AFB, Del., where it...

The Administration’s new National Space Policy is not a call to arm space and has not “changed significantly from the beginning of our ventures into space,” said top arms control official, Robert Joseph, Wednesday at a Washington roundtable sponsored by...

Pacific Air Forces aircraft in South Korea and Japan recently dropped dummy bombs where they shouldn’t, but Stars and Stripes reports that officials at Osan AB, South Korea, are not yet ready to say whether they will cease training with...

Air Combat Command will inactivate the 7th Fighter Squadron at Holloman AFB, N.M., on Dec. 31 as it continues with plans to retire F-117 stealth fighters. The F-117 community at Holloman is holding a ceremony today to commemorate the end...

The Air Force is pursing upgrades to keep the high-flying U-2 reconnaissance aircraft useful—at least until 2011—even as the service investigates whether it should keep the aircraft but dump the pilot. The Dragon Lady, now getting a dual data link...

Airmen in US Air Forces in Europe will not have to repay housing allowance money they received through a misinterpretation of a new law, reports Stars and Stripes. Nearly 9,000 airmen got too much money from Oct. 1, 2005 to...

Air Mobility Command has reacted to the uproar created when the parents of a slain soldier said the airlines placed his casket on a cart with luggage by soliciting non-airline air transport services to transport “up to four caskets and...

Air Force Special Operations Command officials and New Mexico lawmakers conversed in Washington this week to work out how best to transform Cannon AFB, N.M, into its new role as a special operations facility. AFSOC plans to install as host...

A group of protestors who tried to assemble outside RAF Fairford, Britain in 2003 but were stopped by the Gloucestershire constabulary, won their case when the Law Lords overruled an earlier High Court decision, reports Stars and Stripes. The activists...

The latest Pew Research Center survey finds that more Americans now believe the conflict in Iraq is a civil war and about half see the situation becoming another Vietnam. When asked the question “Is Iraq a civil war?” 52 percent...

Various news reports quote departing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as declaring that the Administration would create an Africa Command within a couple of months. He made the remark during an awards ceremony in which he praised Theresa Whelan, deputy assistant...

Veterans Affairs is centralizing its management of information technology systems and security, per a decision by VA Secretary James Nicholson. Following this year’s fiasco in handling the theft of a VA laptop that potentially compromised personal data on more than...

Dec. 13, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 18 8 26 CAS/Armed Recon 48 24 72 Airlift 130 130 Air refueling 33 33 Total 66 32 163 261 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance