The Pentagon announced Oct. 24 that SSgt. Brian P. Hause, 29, of Stoystown, Pa., died the day before of non-combat related medical causes while deployed to Iraq from the 20th Equipment Maintenance Squadron at Shaw AFB, S.C. There were no...
Air Force Global Strike Command, a new major command to be led by a three-star general, will be activated by next September, with responsibility for the Air Force’s nuclear missiles and nuclear-capable bombers, service leaders formally announced Friday. The move...
The new Air Force Global Strike Command (see above) will have charge of nuclear-capable bombers, but will provide the aircraft to any theater commander who requests them for conventional missions, Air Force Secretary Michael B. Donley said Friday. Gen. Norton...
On the same day that the Twin Towers and Pentagon were attacked and the airliner crashed in Pennsylvania, the Air Force lost its first aircraft in the Global War on Terror. This airplane, an RQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle operating...
That’s how Gen. Norton Schwartz, Air Force Chief of Staff, described the work done by current and past airmen at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan since coalition operations began there in 2001. During an airman’s call on Oct. 21 on...
The Air Force has awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross to Maj. Daniel Clayton, an A-10 pilot with the 51st Fighter Wing at Osan AB, South Korea. Clayton received the award for his actions during a nighttime combat search and rescue...
Air Force Special Operations Command’s 16th Special Operations Squadron is celebrating 40 years of operations and working toward moving its whole shebang from Hurlburt Field, Fla., to AFSOC’s new western hub at Cannon AFB, N.M., home to the 27th Special...
Oklahoma Air National Guard F-16 pilot, Lt. Col. David Serage flew his 100th combat sortie earlier this month during a mission over Baghdad. The Air Force Academy graduate has 19 years in active and Air Guard service, including flying B-52...
Air Education and Training Command’s 2nd Air Force will have a new 2,000 square-foot operations facility at Keesler AFB, Miss., to serve as its operational command and control hub from which it will control technical training for some 245,000 US...
Prime contractor Lockheed Martin said in an Oct. 22 release that it has delivered the latest flight software for the Space Based Infrared System geosynchronous satellite No. 1, enabling the SBIRS program to begin baseline integrated system testing on the...
The Air Force may benefit in several ways from service-funded research by husband and wife team Dr. Henry Kapteyn and Professor Margaret Murnane at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Their work has focused on nonlinear optical techniques, leading to...
Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaOct. 23, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 25 13 38 10,795 CAS/Armed Recon 43 73 116 30,483 Airlift 140 140 38,469 Air refueling 38 38 15,022 Total 332 94,769...