The Air Force hasn’t released details on the number of personnel it plans to cut in Fiscal 2008 as part of its three-year force-shaping plan to trim the service by about 40,000 full-time equivalent slots. However, a senior service official...

Airmen at Kadena AB, Japan, on the island of Okinawa have been prepping the base and its aircraft for the first typhoon of the year, scheduled to hit the island this morning. Facing potential winds of 125 knots from Typhoon...

We reported a couple of months ago that the C-17 unit deployed to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron on the last four-month rotation had hauled some 120 million pounds of cargo. The yearly number for the 816th, which has been...

The optimum number of days airmen should deploy for air expeditionary force rotations is 120 days, according to Lt. Gen. Roger Brady, Air Staff manpower and personnel chief. Talking with Pentagon reporters earlier this week, Brady noted that about 65...

Lt. Gen. Roger Brady, USAF’s top personnel officer, says the Air Force already has consolidated about 50 Air Force Specialty Codes and is in the process of looking at consolidating all of the ones that “make sense.” Last fall, Gen....

The Air Force has been meeting goals as it expands its force of much-in-demand battlefield airmen, according to Lt. Gen. Roger Brady, deputy chief of staff for manpower and personnel. The service is gaining new members for these critical specialties...

Air Mobility crews in Southwest Asia change from routine transport duty to short-notice medical evacuation—and make it look easy. Last week, the aircrew of a C-17 from Charleston AFB, S.C., deployed to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron in Southwest Asia,...

A-10 Warthog pilots do not employ weapons in Southwest Asia without getting targeting information from a Joint Terminal Attack Controller, says Lt. Col. Joseph Badalis, JTAC commander at Bagram AB, Afghanistan. And, then, at least two Warthog pilots verify the...

Representatives of the Massachusetts Air National Guard apparently got an earful at the July 11 public meeting on its plan to lower the level at which fighter aircraft can fly training missions over western Maine. The Kennebec Journal reports that...

Lockheed Martin dedicated a new 20,000-square foot, $3 million facility in Rockville, Md., to house a “secure, state-of-the-art software development environment,” according to a company release. The Milsatcom Center of Excellence includes a software development, integration, and test laboratory, and...

July 10, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 16 10 26 CAS/Armed Recon 53 45 98 Airlift 155 155 Air refueling 51 51 Total 69 55 206 330 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...