Air Force Special Operations Command’s CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft will soon deploy for the first time abroad, Army Gen. William Ward, commander of US Africa Command, said Wednesday. Speaking to defense reporters in Washington, D.C., Ward said CV-22s will participate...

The Michigan Air National Guard’s 127th Wing at Selfridge ANG Base outside of Detroit formally relinquished its air sovereignty alert mission on Oct. 2 to the Ohio ANG’s 180th Fighter Wing based in Toledo. Selfridge’s F-16s have protected American skies...

A US Central Command investigation into a coalition air and ground attack against anti-Afghan government forces in the vicinity of Azizabad in Afghanistan’s Herat Provence on Aug. 22 has determined that a greater number of civilians was killed than previously...

Reportedly for the first time, airmen from Australia, Britain, Canada, and the US are flying operational sorties as part of the same crew in the same aircraft. This history is being made in an E-3 AWACS air-surveillance aircraft from the...

The Missouri Air National Guard’s 131st Fighter Wing held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 4 at Whiteman Air Force Base to recognize the unit’s transition to the 131st Bomb Wing—the name change has yet to formally occur—and mark the grand opening...

Air Force Reserve Command’s 445th Airlift Wing on Oct. 4 dedicated its new operations building at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, to the memory of Maj. LeRoy W. Homer Jr., a former wing member who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Homer,...

Despite the ongoing wing inspections that have sidelined a portion of the Air Force’s A-10 fleet, “Hawgsmoke 2008,” a biennial A-10 bombing and gunnery competition, will take place as planned later this month, albeit with fewer participants. Air Force Reserve...

The remains of Capt. Lorenza Conner, an Air Force pilot missing for 41 years since the crash of his F-4D fighter in North Vietnam, have been identified, the Department of Defense announced Oct. 8. Conner’s F-4D was shot down by...

Air Force Office of Scientific Research-sponsored researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are investigating affordable and efficient methods of storing solar energy so that entire buildings could be powered daily using only a few gallons of water and the...

Oct. 7, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 27 14 41 10,129 CAS/Armed Recon 47 69 116 28,730 Airlift 134 134 36,331 Air refueling 58 58 14,184 Total 349 89,374 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance...