No Problem on JCA:

The Air Force and the Army are moving forward on the Joint Combat Aircraft despite “some minor differences” and should achieve a production decision by the end of May, says Lt. Gen. Howie Chandler, USAF deputy chief of staff for...

No Decision Is a Decision:

USAF has put lawmakers in the “dilemma” of having to make a decision about the service’s request to retire 30 older C-5 airlifters and purchase 30 additional new C-17s in their stead based on “imperfect information,” admitted Lt. Gen. Donald...

No “Perfect World”:

It’s no surprise that the Air Force gave up the E-10 multi-sensor command and control aircraft for budgetary reasons. And, when questioned about the decision by Sen. Joe Lieberman (Ind.-Conn.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services air-land panel, Air Staff...

C-130 Answers Coming in June:

The Air Force is “on track” to answer—“by the first week of June”—the four basic questions necessitated when the C-130 avionics modernization program busted its Nunn-McCurdy cost threshold, said USAF’s top military acquisition officer, Lt. Gen. Donald Hoffman. He told...

Hill Completes First F-22 Mod:

Technicians at the Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill AFB, Utah, finished the Night Air-to-Air Refueling modification on the center’s first batch of F-22As, making the mods on 18 Raptors early. Bill Orndorff reports that they took this new workload...

Dover Gets Ready for C-17:

Officials at Dover AFB, Del., activated the 736th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron to prepare for the arrival in June of the first C-17 airlifter. In a unique dual ceremony at the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover, the 3rd Airlift Squadron,...

USAF Force Moves Freight:

New USAF Force Hard at Work: The new US Air Force operation at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq comprises strike (an A-10 element for close air support) and airlift operations, including the 438th Aerial Port Flight—a collection of Reserve...

A 40-Year Tale:

The 653rd Combat Logistics Support Squadron at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins AFB, Ga., has fallen prey to Air Force personnel reductions and will end its more than 40 years of worldwide battle damage repair activity beginning this summer...

Air Sorties in the Global War on Terrorism

April 30, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 16 9 25 CAS/Armed Recon 46 44 90 Airlift 150 150 Air refueling 40 40 Total 62 53 190 305 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...