Airmen deployed to Bagram AB, Afghanistan, for combat search and rescue work frequently have to sub for soldiers who conduct the Army’s UH-60 Blackhawk medical evacuation mission because the USAF HH-60G Pave Hawk can handle bad weather. During one recent...
The “pause” the Air Force’s new leadership has put on the service’s push to create a Cyber Command—which generated numerous news reports that the whole enterprise was down the drain—prompted Louisiana officials to trek to Washington to find out the...
Two Illinois lawmakers have written to the head of the National Guard Bureau, Army Lt. Gen. Steven Blum, to urge him “to take further steps with the Air Force to assign a flying mission to the 183rd [Fighter Wing].” In...
The 86th Contingency Response Group from Ramstein AB, Germany, has 15 airmen on the ground in Tbilisi, Georgia, to maintain aerial port operations for the regularly arriving flights of US humanitarian aid. Since flights began, the US forces have delivered...
Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, head of NORAD and US Northern Command, said Wednesday that “great progress” is being made in some areas with the Russian Air Force. But the current rift in US-Russia relations over Russia’s invasion of Georgia...
The Air Mobility Battlelab and Air Force Research Lab experts developed a means to enable aircrews to employ night-vision goggles during nighttime refueling operations, deciding the simplest approach was to modify the exterior and interior lighting on the KC-135 and...
The Air Force has awarded Bronze Star medals to four airmen of the 819th RED HORSE at Malmstrom AFB, Mont., for their actions while deployed to Southwest Asia. Capt. Glenn Cameron, who commanded a 32-person team from seven units that...
The switch of Buckley Air National Guard Base to Buckley Air Force Base in 2000 required a long-term facility plan that includes some 19 projects that are either done or in the works through 2015. Among the projects already completed...
In case you missed it the first time we ran this time, the Air Force informed us earlier this month that it is reviewing its practice of issuing daily summaries of coalition air activities in Afghanistan and Iraq. Until further...