The Air Force has awarded a Silver Star to MSgt. Michael Keehan III for his actions at the start of combat operations in Iraq. Lt. Gen. Gary North, head of US Central Command Air Forces, presented the medal to Keehan...

The Air Force Center for Civil Engineering and the Environment is constructing a 63,645-square foot hangar at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, to handle corrosion control maintenance for the base’s new C-17 airlifters. An AFCEE release notes that Hickam currently has no...

Air Combat Command boss, Gen. Ronald Keys, who announced last week his decision to retire this fall, told an audience in Virginia Beach, Va., last week that the Air Force diligently applied its surveillance assets from large airframes to unmanned...

As far as officials at US Air Forces in Europe are concerned USAFE took its fair share of cuts to personnel and aircraft in the 1990s, when the command dropped from 25 main bases and 850 aircraft to five bases...

The airmen of the Virginia Air National Guard’s 192nd Fighter Wing at Sandston, Va., took their last flights and performed their last maintenance checks on the wing’s F-16 Vipers on June 20 as promised. The transition they began two years...

The Air Force’s manpower and personnel chief, Lt. Gen. Roger Brady, told the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves last week that the Air Force’s “transformation efforts are on target,” and staying there is a matter of making Total...

Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne and FAA chief Marion Blakely took time at the Paris Air Show to discuss ongoing alternative aviation fuel developments. The two held a press conference aboard a C-17 airlifter, which is considered one of the...

The Air Force has awarded SrA. Sean Murphy, with the Air Force Office of Special Investigation at Ramstein AB, Germany, a Bronze Star for his work while deployed to Kirkuk AB, Iraq. He credited his team for their success in...

The Air Force Association has named Lt. Gen. Michael Hamel as recipient of the 2007 Thomas D. White USAF Space Trophy. Hamel is commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles AFB, Calif. An Air Force release...

The Air Intelligence Agency formally has become the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency, a field operating agency aligned under the Air Staff’s A2, Lt. Gen. David Deptula, deputy chief of staff for ISR. According to a June 21...

The end of a 14-year effort to complete environmental requirements related to 150 Minuteman II ICBM facilities throughout Missouri came to a close last week, when Air Force, EPA, and Missouri state officials met at Whiteman AFB, Mo., to sign...

The record of decision for the precedent-setting land management strategy developed for the Barry Goldwater Range has been signed. According to Teresa Walker of the 56th Range Management Office at Luke AFB, Ariz., it took seven years and an act...

June 20, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 16 10 26 CAS/Armed Recon 68 53 121 Airlift 158 158 Air refueling 59 59 Total 84 63 217 364 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...