In Afghanistan on Feb. 24, F-15E Strike Eagles provided close air support to coalition forces near Qurya. Taking direction from a Joint Terminal Attack Controller, the F-15Es dropped a GBU-38 joint direct attack munition and GBU-39 small diameter bomb on...

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates and South Korea’s Minister of National Defense Kim Jang Soo agreed during a meeting Feb. 23 in Washington that the two countries will disestablish the current Combined Forces Command on April 17, 2012. At that...

A Delaware Air National Guard aeromedical evacuation team was key to the in-flight emergency medical care provided to 11 soldiers injured in the crash of their C-47 Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan Feb. 18, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. The five-member ANG...

The Air Force is establishing, slowly, a new squadron at Vance AFB, Okla., to conduct introduction to fighter fundamentals training. The first three members of the new 3rd Fighter Training Squadron are at Vance to begin work for the spring...

The Florida Air National Guard’s 601st Air Operations Center have taken the reins for a new $15 million, 37,000-square-foot facility designed to help 1st Air Force and the Continental NORAD Region direct strategic air and homeland defense air forces for...

Seventy-three percent of US adults think young people should voluntarily serve their country in some way, according to a new Harris Poll. Approximately four in 10 adults support a draft of young people, with the idea that the young people...

The Times of London quotes two loosely identified “sources” as agreeing that several US generals and admirals have said they would quit if President Bush orders an attack on Iran. The newspaper quotes one “source with close ties to British...

Both Republican and Democratic governors are worried that the President’s surge of troops in Iraq will add pressure to National Guard units already “stretched to their limits,” reports Molly Hennessy-Fiske of the Los Angeles Times. The Administration’s planned surge of...

The Senate has passed and referred to the House a concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 12) marking March 25, 2007, as National Medal of Honor Day. The special day would “mark the significance and importance of the Medal of Honor...

Minnesotans have enlisted the aid of their US Senators—Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Amy Klobuchar—to try to get the A-12 Blackbird spy plane returned to the state for continued display at the Air National Guard Museum. Now, the Pioneer Press...

A new report on Afghanistan concludes that Afghans are losing faith in their new government with the escalation in violence, and most believe they are more insecure than they were in 2005. The report, released by the Center for Strategic...

DOD and NASA have formed a National Partnership for Aeronautical Testing to develop an integrated national strategy for managing their respective aeronautical test facilities with a view toward streamlining and economizing operations, according to a Feb. 23 Pentagon release. The...

Feb. 22-24, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 45 21 66 CAS/Armed Recon 134 129 263 Airlift 440 440 Air refueling 110 110 Total 179 150 550 879 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance