Two Air Force C-17s and one C-130, along with multiple aircrews, aeromedical evacuation teams, and agencies from around the world, came together in late July to help save the life of a British soldier who was seriously wounded in Afghanistan....

Airmen of the 355th Fighter Wing at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., last month made history by becoming the first unit to deploy a full complement of A-10Cs, the newest version of the venerable A-10 ground-attack aircraft, to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. These...

The Air Force and Missile Defense Agency last month successfully completed the trial period of the upgraded early warning radar at Thule AB, Greenland, thereby clearing the system for operations. In addition to its roles in tracking space objects and...

Air Force officials last month held the first-ever service core functions symposium at the LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education on the grounds of Maxwell AFB, Ala. The event was meant to help USAF define its new core functions...

Air Force officials on July 23 broke ground on the Air Reserve Personnel Center’s new headquarters building that will be located on the grounds of Buckley AFB, Colo. “We are about to marry up a world-class facility with a world-class...

Airmen last month successfully mated an X-51A hypersonic flight test vehicle with its host launch platform, a B-52 bomber, at Edwards AFB, Calif. This flight test vehicle arrived at Edwards in June. The fit check was one of the myriad...

Members of the North Dakota Air National Guard’s 119th Wing, the “Happy Hooligans,” on July 27 completed the final sortie of their first rotation in the combat theater with their C-21 transports. “It’s the first time the Happy Hooligan tail...

Northrop Grumman says its industry team last month delivered to the Air Force the final Minuteman III first-stage solid rocket motor that was remanufactured under the propulsion replacement program. In a release Monday, the company said teammate Alliant Techsystems (ATK)...

The Air Force’s Space Based Infrared Systems Wing says it has successfully completed the 20-month development of the flight software subsystem (FSS) for the first space based infrared system early warning satellite, GEO-1. In a release Monday, the wing said...

Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest AsiaAug. 1, 2009 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 23 26 49 8,959 CAS/Armed Recon 28 73 101 20,321 Airlift 148 148 27,662 Air refueling 39 39 9,826 Total 337 66,768...