An Iraqi-led assault to eliminate a militia force in Diwaniyah in southern Iraq entered its third day on April 8 and was achieving “great success,” according to Maj. Gen. Oothman Faroud, whose 8th Iraqi Army Division is leading Operation Black...

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley has assigned homework to his major command chiefs for their Corona Top meeting in June. Moseley wants to know from Air Combat Command’s Gen. Ronald Keys just exactly how many more battlefield...

Gen. Michael Moseley wants 8th Air Force chief Lt. Gen. Robert Elder to “push it up, go faster” on laying groundwork to create a new major command for cyber warfare. The Chief of Staff specifically wants to know how many...

The airmen and soldiers who man the E-8C Joint STARS aircraft of the 128th Expeditionary Airborne Command and Control Squadron have exceeded 23,000 flying hours supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. The unit flies more than a dozen missions per week, each...

The huge hotel and mall complex project undergoing construction at Ramstein AB, Germany, likely will open two years late and significantly over estimated costs, reports Stars and Stripes. In fall 2005, Air Force project managers heralded the installation of a...

The Air Force’s push to be executive agent for medium- and high-flying unmanned aerial vehicle is connected to a study being prepared by Lt. Gen. David Deptula, the service’s intelligence chief, on how the Air Force and the other branches...

The Air Force has good and logical reasons to take over executive agency of the higher flying unmanned aerial vehicle mission, a senior service official said Monday. (Find some in our earlier report.) There’s another element, though, and that is...

MSgt. Joseph Maxey has achieved a feat few loadmasters manage during their Air Force careers—reaching 10,000 flying hours. The 25-year veteran, currently assigned to Charleston AFB, S.C., hit the magic number flying a C-17 airlift mission over Afghanistan on April...

Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center plans to issue the final request for proposals for the next generation Global Positioning System satellite on April 19. Boeing and Lockheed Martin teams have been vying for GPS Block III....

Lockheed Martin has delivered the full-function Situational Awareness Data Link for the A-10C precision engagement upgrade program. A company release notes that USAF plans to conduct developmental flight-testing through May at Eglin AFB, Fla. The goal is to have the...

Combat Rescue Officers held the training that separates wannabes from those who can become CROs recently at Fairchild AFB, Wash., observing 18 active and reserve airmen—who may be officers, enlisted in a commissioning program, or AFROTC cadets—during a week of...

In continuing tests of the new nonlethal weapon called the Active Denial System, an unidentified airman sustained second-degree burns. The 820th Security Forces Group at Moody AFB, Ga., is testing the device, which is supposed to cause targeted individuals to...

April 6, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 19 8 27 CAS/Armed Recon 48 47 95 Airlift 160 160 Air refueling 44 44 Total 67 55 204 326 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...