One of the US officials leading air operations in Southwest Asia, Air Force Maj. Gen. David Edgington, told reporters in Iraq this weekend that airstrikes are down from earlier this year when the number of sorties was running ahead compared...

Air Force Maj. Gen. David Edgington, head of the air component coordination element for operations in Iraq, told reporters (see above) in Iraq that coalition air forces are using smaller weapons and using the Hellfire-equipped Predator (and now Reaper) unmanned...

Someone at the Air Staff needs to update information on the status of the KC-135E tankers flown by two Air National Guard units. Gen. Michael Moseley, Chief of Staff, told Congress Oct. 24 that the service cannot fly those tankers...

Papering Afghanistan, Again: Airmen deployed to the 40th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron dropped some 300,000 leaflets as their C-130 flew over the mountains of Afghanistan recently, reports SSgt. Jason Barebo. The aircrews consider such flights “just as critical as any other,”...

The number of Operation Noble Eagle sorties flown during the month of October dropped compared to September, according to the most recent data provided by Air Forces Northern at Tyndall AFB, Fla. The Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve...

Airmen of the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing appeared on NBC’s “Today Show” yesterday, as the Today crew broadcast from the Arctic. The Times Union reports that the Air Guardsmen were part of a three-minute segment “From...

Rep. Jim Saxton (R-N.J.) declares in an op-ed in the Washington Times that “some in Congress do not understand” that a “modern airlift fleet is essential” to get US forces to hotspots fast. As with an earlier letter that responded...

The Air Force has named the top air commandos for 2006. They are: • Special Tactics Officer of the Year—Capt. Stewart Parker, 21st Special Tactics Squadron. Parker led a team of 15 combat controllers who killed 248 enemy combatants in...

Both leaders of their respective defense establishments in the US and China used much the same language during a press conference to describe their meeting in Beijing. From Chinese Minister of Defense Cao Gangchuan: “I think that our dialogue has...

The Air Force airlift of an 8,000-pound elephant from The Alaska Zoo to a sanctuary in California went well. SSgt. Francesca Popp reports that a mixed active duty and Air National Guard C-17 aircrew from Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, flew Maggie...

Nov. 3, 2007 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total ISR 23 10 33 CAS/Armed Recon 66 25 91 Airlift 157 157 Air refueling 44 44 Total 89 35 201 325 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance Airlift includes Horn...