Air Force and contractor personnel, led by the Electronic Systems Center’s 652nd Electronic Systems Squadron, plan to begin equipment installation in July at the new facility being built at an air base in Southwest Asia to house Air Forces Central’s...
Air Mobility Command is interested in a lightweight, man-portable litter system that could easily be used by aeromedical evacuation teams on transport aircraft that lack an onboard litter system. “A man-portable litter system that’s small and light enough to be...
Air Force Special Operations Command dedicated an area of its Melrose Bombing Range at Cannon AFB, N.M., March 14 to the memory of the crew of Jockey 14, an AC-130 gunship that crashed off the coast of Kenya 14 years...
Maintainers of the F-22 at Langley AFB, Va., say they have been able to shave off 39 percent of the time that it takes to maintain the low-observable coating of the modern stealth fighter. “The implications are huge for the...
The Congressionally mandated Interagency Aerospace Revitalization Task Force in its first of five annual reports, released by the Labor Department last week, has recommended “sustained collaboration” among federal agencies; an “integrated, cross-agency and public/private investment strategy;” and “knowledge sharing” to...
The US Air Force and Royal Moroccan Air Force have expanded their bilateral relationship with the RMAF’s purchase of 24 new F-16 Block 52 aircraft, along with training, and support equipment, according to USAF officials. The Pentagon notified Congress of...
Two retired Air Force pilots and one civilian pilot who have been part of USAF’s annual Heritage Flight program since it began in 1997, flew their last Heritage Flight missions during the 2008 conference at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., earlier this...
A C-17 transport aircraft operated by an Air Force Reserve crew from the 315th Airlift Wing at Charleston AFB, S.C., flew a mission March 15 to deliver school supplies to children of the Caribbean island nation of Dominica. Private organizations...
The Air Force has awarded Bronze Star medals to an explosive ordnance disposal technician, an Office of Special Investigations special agent, and a ground combat instructor. MSgt. Manuel Camacho, an instructor with the 96th Ground Combat Training Squadron at Eglin...
Lt. Gen. Stephen G. Wood, commander of the Seventh Air Force in South Korea, has a new name: Woo Chang-hee. The Republic of Korea-US Alliance Friendship Society presented Wood with the Korean name Monday during a ceremony at Osan Air...
President George W. Bush is scheduled to give a speech on the war on terror March 27 at the National Museum of the United States Air Force on the grounds of Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. The speech will be an invitation-only...
March 21-22, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 47 19 66 2,215 CAS/Armed Recon 132 79 211 6,733 Airlift 312 312 10,078 Air refueling 87 87 3,126 Total 676 22,152 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance...