New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine doesn’t want assurances of future improved safety practices, he just wants to close the Warren Grove Gunnery Range, where a New Jersey Air National Guard F-15 recently sparked a fire that engulfed 17,000 acres and...
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley says the Air Force has a surplus of fighter/bomber pilots and a deficit of rated aircrew for unmanned aerial vehicle, special operations, and command and control units. And, he maintains in a...
The Air Force’s top intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance officer, Lt. Gen. David Deptula, took a tour recently in Southwest Asia to see how the intel airmen have implemented a centralized mission planning cell and modified tactics and techniques to accommodate the war on...
Training for USAF’s joint terminal attack controllers is never ending, as attested to recently by some JTACs currently deployed to Southwest Asia. Whether here in the States or overseas, these battlefield airmen train and train again. JTACs stationed in Germany...
The Government Accountability Office has told Congress it would not be in such a hurry to gut Cheyenne Mountain AFS, Colo., and transfer various functions to nearby Peterson Air Force Base, relatively close Schriever Air Force Base, and all the...
According to a new Harris Poll, a 62 percent majority of Americans think President Bush tends to paint a rosier picture of the situation in Iraq than is warranted. Following closely behind the President are Republican leaders, who could only...
Some 40 surgeons and physicians assistants deployed to Iraq converged on the Air Force-run theater hospital at Balad AB, Iraq, to share battlefield medicine techniques. Hospital commander, Air Force Col. Brian Masterson, says that the joint services medical professionals have...
At an unnamed forward location, airmen from several different specialties come together to ensure the arrival of new airmen goes smoothly, handling everything from prepositioned C bags and chemical warfare gear to beds and airlift passenger processing. During an Air...
As he predicted, the caseload for the US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims grew over the past year, rising to 3,729 new case filings, Chief Judge William Greene told members of a House Veterans Affairs panel May 22. The...
May 21, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 16 8 24 CAS/Armed Recon 47 66 113 Airlift 151 151 Air refueling 45 45 Total 63 74 196 333 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...