The test team at Edwards AFB, Calif., has completed developmental flight-testing of the CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. Next up is operational testing at Hurlburt Field, Fla., where the operators of Air Force Special Operations Command already are flying the new...

The full Senate approved legislation sponsored by Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) and Sen. John Isakson (R-Ga.) that requires the Government Accountability Office to investigate troubled housing privatization efforts. Chambliss has been particularly vocal about the situation at Moody AFB, Ga.,...

The Senators of Montana tagged a measure on the 2008 defense policy bill that would require the Air Force to consider arranging an associate unit that would pair active duty airmen at Malmstrom Air Force Base with the Montana Air...

Operation Noble Eagle, the homeland air defense effort begun after the 9/11 terrorist strikes, has conducted 46,780 sorties. That’s a combined total of fighter, tanker, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft, and Civil Air Patrol sorties. (Click here for table of ONE...

The Arizona Air National Guard has activated the 214th Reconnaissance Group at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., culminating a two-year effort to incorporate the Predator unmanned aerial vehicle into Arizona ANG operations, reports Capt. Gabe Johnson. Airmen of the new unit actually...

A hypersonic vehicle, launched aboard a Navy rocket, flew for six minutes at Mach 5 and an altitude of 95,000 feet. The Re-Entry Structures Experiment then descended in two pieces, which landed 21 miles north of the launch point at...

Adm. Michael Mullen now is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, replacing Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace who retired Oct. 1. During a ceremony at Ft. Myer, Va., Mullen vowed to give service members “clear direction, outstanding equipment, and...

It’s official; the Pentagon has activated the new Africa Command, under the leadership of Army Gen. William Ward, who received Senate confirmation on Sept. 28. The initial organization will share space with US European Command at Stuttgart, Germany. The new...

Airmen at Ellsworth AFB, S.D., recently heralded 20 years of operating and maintaining the B-1B bomber, which first arrived at the base in 1987. SSgt. Eric Bolt recounts some of the history of the Bone at Ellsworth and elsewhere. SMSgt....

SSgt. Jessica Kuge, a videographer stationed at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., has received a Bronze Star medal for her documentation of 40 combat and humanitarian missions during a 143-day deployment to Iraq in 2006. A1C Erica Stewart reports that Kuge continued...

Some 100 members of the 23rd Flying Tiger Association are going to Moody AFB, Ga., now the home of the 23rd Wing, for their annual reunion. It is the first time Moody has hosted the event since activation of the...

Sept. 30, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 19 11 30 CAS/Armed Recon 70 41 111 Airlift 190 190 Air refueling 50 50 Total 89 52 240 381 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...