Tapped to assist in a civil search and rescue operation earlier this month, the 58th Special Operations Wing at Kirtland AFB, N.M., put the new CV-22 Osprey into the rescue package that included two HH-60 helicopters and an MC-130P Combat...

Two A-10s returning to Bagram AB, Afghanistan, after a mission last week got a call for help from coalition ground forces. Capt. Michael Meridith reports that Capt. Dennis Hargis from San Antonio, who was nearing the end of his six-month...

Five state governors joined forces to send a letter last week to President Bush urging him to consider the beneficial affect a KC-30 tanker production facility in Mobile, Ala., would have on a region hard hit by recent natural disasters....

The Air Force has shifted training of airfield operations officers to the Air National Guard, with the graduation of the last active duty-run class Oct. 22 at Altus AFB, Okla., reports Capt. Allen Alfred. Over the 11 years Altus ran...

The active duty 2nd Space Operations Squadron and Air Force Reserve Command 19th SOPS at Schriever AFB, Colo., took control within minutes of the launch of the latest GPS Block IIR satellite using a new launch, anomaly resolution and disposal...

The completion by Electronic Systems Center of a five-year, $70-million program to replace 110 weather sensing systems around the globe means the Air Force will need fewer observers and can stop trying to patch nearly 40-year-old mechanisms. Chuck Paone reports...

TSgt. Brian Abraham on Oct. 17 became the first aerial porter in the Air Force to power up a C-17 airlifter, reports Amn. Melissa White. Abraham, an instructor with the 437th Aerial Port Squadron, is one of only two aerial...

The Air Force plans to reduce the number of airmen who support retiree funerals from 10 to seven, beginning Nov. 1. SSgt. Madelyn Waychoff reports that three factors affected this decision: the service’s drawdown of airmen, a continuing high operations...

The new F-22 Maintenance Training Facility at Sheppard AFB, Tex. is now officially open, reports the Times Record News. As we reported earlier, the new facility will take its first trainee beginning in January. The state-of-the-art center includes F-22 cockpit...

USAF airmen have been providing airlift support for the African Union peacekeeping mission in the Darfur region of Sudan for the past few years. The most recent mission for the 786th Air Expeditionary Squadron was Oct. 20, when the unit...

The Air Force has awarded Bronze Star medals to an explosive ordnance disposal technician from Edwards AFB, Calif., and a communications superintendent and an air control technician from Luke AFB, Ariz., and an EOD tech from F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo....

Arras, a five-year-old Dutch shepherd explosives detector and patrol dog deployed to Iraq with his handler SSgt. Marcus Reaves was electrified Sept. 25 during a search for weapons and explosives in a building. The two deployed from the 78th Security...

Oct. 18-19, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 41 21 62 CAS/Armed Recon 99 59 158 Airlift 278 278 Air refueling 83 83 Total 140 80 361 581 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...