The Air Force major commands simply will not have the number of top enlisted airmen they had hoped for as the service plans to eliminate about 320 chief master sergeant slots because of “budgetary restraints over the next three years,”...

The word from Pacific Air Forces boss Gen. Howie Chandler is that his budget this year is better than last, but “next year is looking not as good, to be honest about it,” reports the Honolulu Advertiser. Chandler talked with...

According to the new head of US Forces Japan, Air Force Lt. Gen. Edward Rice, the changes coming for US Air Force elements in Japan, including the addition of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, require some rethinking about airspace training...

In Afghanistan on May 21, USAF F-15Es used GBU-31 and GBU-38 joint direct attack munitions to destroy enemy combatants in Bermel and Nangalam, according to a May 22 Air Force release from Southwest Asia. And, in Gardez, Afghanistan, a USAF...

Airmen at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., launched a Minuteman III ICBM May 22, sending it about a thousand miles farther than normal for such reliability and accuracy testing, according to a May 22 release from the 30th Space Wing. The re-entry...

A general “downturn in its satellite assembly and integration business” has led Boeing to announce that it must lay off about 750 employees in southern California, according to a May 21 company release. Boeing recently lost out on the contract...

Two instructor pilots flying a T-1 Jayhawk from Laughlin AFB, Tex., landed short of the runway at Preston-Smith International Airport in Lubbock about 10 p.m. May 21, reports Southwest Texas LIVE. The pilots, who were unharmed, had been on a...

The top DOD intelligence official, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper, has issued a new Defense Intelligence Strategy paper. Clapper writes in the paper that the "pace, scope, and complexity of change" in the upcoming era "will challenge the minds and resources of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise." He notes that it will take a "concerted, collective effort" by the enterprise, which he defines as the DOD intelligence, counterintelligence, and security communities, to protect intel assets "against all forms and domains of attack" and to transform itself into an "agile, global, and diverse" entity. The paper lays out a series of strategic goals, objectives, and priorities. We present it here.

Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaMay 20, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 26 15 41 4,124 CAS/Armed Recon 53 49 102 12,398 Airlift 140 140 17,926 Air refueling 57 57 5,727 Total 340 40,175...