Heading toward its vision of a centralized, more efficient one-stop schoolhouse for enlisted aircrew training, Air Education and Training Command will end aviation ground school classes at Keesler AFB, Miss., today. The equipment of Keesler’s 332nd Training Squadron is being...

To better prepare tanker and airlift student pilots for low-level flying in combat environments, two Air Force Reserve Command majors—T-1 Jayhawk instructor pilots Randy Tiedt and Doug Stouffer with the 5th Flying Training Squadron at Vance AFB, Okla.—have devised a...

Air Force Reserve Command airmen from the 304th Rescue Squadron in Oregon joined with Air National Guardsmen from the 152nd Airlift Wing in Nevada to help hunt for three hikers missing on Mt. Hood in Washington. Severe weather has hampered...

Airmen deployed to Kenya for Operation Unity Knight airdropped their last load late last week, delivering tents, tarps, and mosquito netting—and candy for the children, according to a Dec. 18 report by Air Force photojournalist TSgt. Steve Staedler. The campaign,...

The new Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, at his swearing in ceremony Monday, told the assembled military members, “I value your professionalism and your experience, and I will rely on your clear-eyed advice in the weeks and months ahead.” Just...

Pacific Air Forces chief Gen. Paul Hester on a visit to Yokota AB, Japan, told reporters that the F-22 Raptor will arrive at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska in August and the number of C-17 airlifters in the region will grow to...

Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz, Air Force Space Command vice commander, spoke with 50 Air Force ROTC cadets and their parents in Philadelphia recently, encouraging the young cadets from a dozen local colleges and universities to consider careers in the space...

Installation began in July 2004 for a new antenna for the Air Force Satellite Control Network operation at New Boston AFS, N.H., and operational testing began on Dec. 14. It took more than one year to complete the radome housing...

Warren Ludlum, a World War II bomber pilot, told the Associated Press news service in an interview last week that his bomber was shot down while being escorted by fighters flown by the Tuskegee Airmen. He went on to say...

The airmen of Air Force Reserve Command’s 6th Space Operations Squadron at Schriever AFB, Colo., must deliver their weather satellite data to customers within 10 minutes of download—and the 6th SOPS currently is the only unit providing critical sandstorm data...

Troops based in Europe are getting a little relief this week with a cost-of-living allowance increase due to the falling value of the dollar against the euro and British pound. US service members will get up to a 25 percent...

MSgt. Kenneth Oswald, with the 26th Fighter Wing Safety Office at Cannon AFB, N.M., has received $7,000 for recommending a different lock removal procedure on the F-16 aircraft to prevent compressor case damage. His suggestion, according to a base news...

The 436th Civil Engineer Squadron environmental restoration staff at Dover AFB, Del., has won the 2006 Air Force General Thomas D. White Environmental Restoration Award, which honors the installation with the best restoration program. The Dover staff managed to provide...

Dec. 15-17, 2006 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 34 25 59 CAS/Armed Recon 88 128 216 Airlift 380 380 Air refueling 94 94 Total 122 153 474 749 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance