If news reports are true, the Joint Requirements Oversight Council has recommended the Air Force become the lead for medium to high altitude unmanned aerial vehicles. However JROC wants joint program offices established to watch over specific systems. The Air...

The Air Force and Lockheed Martin appear to have worked out a plan that would cure Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile test misfires and put it back on sound financial footing. Richard Burnett of the Orlando Sentinel reports that USAF and...

According to the Washington Post, a routine sweep for “questionable network traffic” led the Joint Task Force Global Network Operations Center to alert the Air Force Surgeon General’s office about medical data being sent through an unprotected network server. The...

The Air National Guard at Selfridge ANGB, Mich., has decided that the proposed recreational shoreline area that Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) wants to cut out of the Guard base might just affect base security. The Macomb Daily reports that Brig....

Pentagon leaders could be rethinking the massive drawdown US forces have undergone in Europe. According to Stars and Stripes, Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, Joint Chiefs Chairman, told US troops and family members in Schweinfurt, Germany, last week that the...

The Air Force has selected 1st Lt. Cody Clark as one of the first pilots who could be flying the F-22A Raptor without any prior operational fighter experience. Clark is the sole first-assignment instructor pilot among eight specialized undergraduate pilot...

Active duty and reserve airmen at Ramstein AB, Germany, who man the 435th Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility, have seen their workload mushroom this summer as the US troop surge took hold in Iraq. The facility airmen care for wounded personnel,...

The quickly spreading wildfire that jumped from Idaho to Nevada Sunday also reportedly threatened to spread onto the pilot training range used by Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. Several fires raging throughout Idaho, at last report, had consumed some 770,000 acres....

A release from Charleston AFB, S.C., states that a survey conducted by the Everett Group during a one-week period, from March into April, shows Americans have a high opinion of the Air Force. Survey results indicate that 79 percent of...

MSgt. Joseph Jarboe III, an explosive ordnance disposal technician, has received a Bronze Star for his work while deployed to Baghdad Airport in Iraq last year. Jarboe, with the 2nd Civil Engineer Squadron, Barksdale AFB, La., led his EOD team...

A Joint Forces Command-sponsored study recommends that the US military take a Madison Avenue-approach to enlist more support from locals in military operational theaters. The Rand Corp. authors believe their work still has some applications to operations in Afghanistan and...

July 19-20, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 38 15 53 CAS/Armed Recon 139 80 219 Airlift 302 302 Air refueling 106 106 Total 177 95 408 680 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...