The Air Force announced Sunday that three explosive ordnance disposal airmen deployed to Sather AB, Iraq, had been killed by a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device. Another airman was injured in the blast. USAF is withholding names pending notification of next...

If the Air Force doesn’t get enough junior officers to voluntarily leave the service, it plans to hold a reduction in force board in June, so says Lt. Gen. Roger Brady, USAF’s top personnel officer. The service plans to separate...

Some 45 Security Forces airmen deployed to Iraq are training Iraqi policemen in the Salah province to run their own police stations. Forming the 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Det. 6 at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, these 45 airmen are...

New Defense Secretary Robert Gates has recommended to President Bush that Gen. George Casey take over the Army as Chief of Staff, replacing Gen. Peter Schoomaker, who gets to retire for the second time. (Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld brought Schoomaker back from retirement when he ousted Gen. Eric Shinseki.) Casey has served both as Vice Chief of Staff and most recently as commander of the Multi-National Force Iraq. To replace Casey, Gates wants to promote Army Lt. Gen. Dave Petraeus. And, completing a top Iraq war leadership sweep, Gates wants to make Adm. William Fallon the new head of US Central Command, replacing Army Gen. John Abizaid, who will retire. In Gates’ view, the three new commanders have a “mix of experience, skills, creativity, and strategic vision [that] make the whole greater than the sum of the individual parts.”

There have been at least nine states providing National Guard assistance to western states hit hard by winter storms, in addition to the Air National Guardsmen from Wyoming and Colorado we covered last week. The National Guard Bureau reports that...

Airmen from various units who make up the 791st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron at Ramstein AB, Germany, routinely fly six aeromedical evacuation missions a week to Iraq and Afghanistan. The airmen of 791st fly troops with serious injuries to Landstuhl,...

Today House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) and committee members Jim Marshall (D-Ga.), Jim Saxton (R-N.J.) and Mac Thornberry (R-Tex.) are discussing their agenda for Iraq in the 110th Congress during a forum entitled “The Way Forward in...

Army Gen. William Ward, deputy commander of US European Command, told defense reporters in Washington Friday that the Secretary of Defense had proposed to President Bush an alteration for the Unified Command Plan that “would look at Africa in a...

A group of US Air Forces in Europe medical personnel joined the latest US European Command Medical Civilian Assistance Program in Africa, where they treated almost 1,500 patients in Rwanda and Botswana. The MedCAP team included an optometrist and dental...

Four senior American statesmen are urging the US to seek an end to nuclear weapons. Penning a commentary in the Jan. 4 Wall Street Journal, George Shultz (former Secretary of State), William Perry (former Defense Secretary), Henry Kissinger (former Secretary...

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research in Arlington, Va. is evaluating thousands of research proposals it has received from scientists and researchers all over the world, in an effort to provide the US military with technological advantages in battle....

Donald Erbschloe, former deputy and acting chief operating officer for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, has been named the chief scientist for Air Mobility Command. He will advise the commander on science and technical issues, and communicate with...

Jan. 4, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 13 9 22 CAS/Armed Recon 30 44 74 Airlift 120 120 Air refueling 36 36 Total 43 53 156 252 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance