Air Force Space Command last week gathered representatives from the other services, joint agencies, and the Intelligence Community to jump start a collective process to get Operationally Responsive Space “off the ground quickly and deliver effects rapidly,” according to Gen....

Air Force Reserve Command says it reached its Fiscal 2007 recruiting goal when it topped 8,000 recruits on Aug. 28, more than a month before the end of the fiscal year. An AFRC release states that this is the seventh...

The Air Force’s central supply chain manger, the Global Logistics Support Center, will open its headquarters at Scott AFB, Ill., according to a release from Air Force Materiel Command. AFMC considered several sites but selected Scott because it has the...

The Air Force will have to regroup in the matter of securing a replacement combat search rescue helicopter. As we reported last week, the Government Accountability Office has found in favor of recent protests filed by Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky...

Air Force Special Operations Command plans to install a special tactics squadron at its new western outpost, Cannon AFB, N.M., in addition to special ops flying units and aircraft. The Portales News Tribune reports that the special tactics unit will...

Last week, we reported that there were high-level meetings in July and August about how to protect US space assets from anti-satellite threats like that tested early this year by China. Outgoing Air Force Undersecretary Ron Sega described the group...

It appears that there is widespread disgruntlement over a recent directive that would have Air Reserve Technicians in Air Force Reserve Command wear uniforms even while working in their civilian status. We reported last week about grumblings on the East...

The Montana Air National Guard and the state’s Congressional delegation and local officials are working together to try to get the Air Force to create an associate unit between the ANG’s 120th Fighter Wing at Great Falls and an active...

The C-17 crew from McChord AFB, Wash., thought it had flown its last Antarctic mission for this year’s Winter Fly-in, but they had to hold in place for a special aeromedical evacuation. At Christchurch, New Zealand, the McChord airlift crew...

The aircrew of a C-130 transporting US Congressmen from Baghdad Airport last week saw surface to air fire as the transport aircraft left the runway and immediately began a series of standard tactics. They dispensed countermeasure flares and flew “standard...

Construction of the Ronald Reagan Memorial is now underway at Vandenberg AFB, Calif. The Air Force began the project with a groundbreaking ceremony Aug. 29 at North Base, reports SrA. Stephen Cadette. “This memorial will last for generations of people...

Aug. 29-31, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 54 27 81 CAS/Armed Recon 197 120 317 Airlift 426 426 Air refueling 157 157 Total 251 147 583 981 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...