Newly promoted Gen. Craig R. McKinley is the first four-star general to head the National Guard Bureau and the first Air Force officer to lead the National Guard since 2002. Defense Secretary Robert Gates pinned on McKinley’s fourth star during...

The Air Force plan to open more airspace over Utah and Nevada to expand the training area for aircraft predominantly flying out of Hill Air Force Base in Utah has met with continued resistance from environmentalists, civil pilots, and area...

Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada is just one of a chorus voicing concern over potential plans to develop the Upper Las Vegas Wash, reports the Las Vegas Sun. A newly released study on the issue by Utah State University...

Gen. Bruce Carlson, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, plans to relinquish command on Nov. 21 and formally end his 37-year career in January 2009. Carlson entered the Air Force in 1971 as a distinguished Air Force ROTC graduate at...

Training for the Air Force’s Combat Systems Officers will be moving to NAS Pensacola, Fla., from Randolph AFB, Tex., in fall 2010 and when it does, CSOs should have a new training facility in place. Navy and Air Force officials...

The KC-135 force now has three flight simulators located at one tanker training facility, McConnell AFB, Kan., making it the premier follow-on KC-135 training location, according to McConnell officials. The Kansas base recently gained a simulator from Grand Forks AFB,...

On Nov. 14, Army Gen. Ann Dunwoody became the first woman in the US military to reach four-star general. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, and Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey Jr. were among...

Technicians from the Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill AFB, Utah, traveled to Moody AFB, Ga., earlier this month to train A-10 maintainers how to repair major cracks on the close air support aircraft. The Air Force in October identified...

Dover Air Force Base in Delaware now has a new Reconfigurable Desktop Simulator to train C-17 pilots and loadmasters for the active duty 3rd Airlift Squadron and its associate Air Force Reserve Command 526th AS, eliminating the need for the...

Opening its national tour at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial in Arlington, Va. on Nov. 14, the “Fly Girls of World War II” exhibit extols the service of the Women Airforce Service Pilots—the WASP. Air Force Maj....

Nov. 14-15, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 61 23 84 11,722 CAS/Armed Recon 86 109 195 32,862 Airlift 290 290 41,580 Air refueling 90 90 16,104 Total 659 102,268 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance...