Hammering Home

There’s something odd about the Air Force’s just released 2008 unfunded priority list and its two latest supplemental funding requests—they duplicate requests for some aircraft. Air Force spokesperson Maj. Dayan Araujo confirmed yesterday that the UPL and the 2007 spring...

Battlelabs Fall to Money Woes

The Air Force has decided to eliminate its seven battlelabs—created to deliver innovative initiatives quickly and at minimum cost—because it can’t afford to keep them alive. The derailment of these battlelabs—six created in 1997 and a seventh added in 2001—is...

That’s Fair

Gen. Michael Moseley, USAF Chief of Staff, believes there ultimately could be two winners in the service’s tanker replacement program. It’s likely the first batch of 179 aircraft would go to one competitor—either Boeing’s smaller KC-767 or the Northrop Grumman-EADS...

B-1Bs Always Ready

Maintenance airmen deployed from Ellsworth AFB, S.D., work hard to keep their B-1B bombers ready to deal with adversaries in the war on terror, according to journalist TSgt. Steven Wilson. Spurring the airmen on is CMSgt. Jim Sanders of Ellsworth’s...

Ospreys Fixed

A chip in some computer circuit boards temporarily grounded V-22 Ospreys operated by the Air Force and Marine Corps earlier this month, but Otto Kreisher with Congress Daily reports that the Marine Corps and the Bell-Boeing manufacturing team identified and...

It Was a Surprise

The Pentagon’s top doctor, William Winkenwerder, told reporters Wednesday that the revelations about housing problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center took him “completely by surprise.” However, he and the Army officials present accepted “accountability” for the problems, saying they...

Cambodia, We Care

Despite a lack of supplies, members of Medical Civil Action Program, a team of Air Force primary care physicians from Brooks City-Base, Tex., treated Cambodians with common ailments at a clinic in Mondol Kiri earlier this year, according to a...

Busy, Busy

In the Air Force Theater Hospital at Balad AB, Iraq, pharmacy technicians and the radiology specialists are very busy dealing with trauma medicine. Journalist SrA. Candace Romano reports that pharmacists make initial assessments, monitor morphine, fill prescriptions, mix intravenous fluids,...

Mini Housing Boom:

New housing is in the works at several Air Force bases: Barksdale AFB, La., Bolling AFB, D.C., Eielson AFB, Alaska, and Langley AFB, Va. The Shreveport Times reports that Barksdale, Bolling, Langley are covered under a single privatized development plan...

Stability in Iraq An Impossibility?:

According to the most recent National Intelligence Estimate, Iraq’s chances for stability will continue to deteriorate without substantial efforts and progress in the next 12 to 18 months to reverse polarization, persistent weakness of security forces, insurgent violence, and political...

Air Sorties in the Global War on Terrorism

Feb. 20, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 15 9 24 CAS/Armed Recon 44 37 81 Airlift 140 140 Air refueling 31 31 Total 59 46 171 276 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance