The Mississippi Air National Guard at Key Field has trained more than 124 active duty airmen to operate USAF’s new MC-12W Project Liberty intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance platform since it received its first MC-12 in March 2009. The MC-12 began operations in Iraq...

CMSgt. Mike Ramos, an Air Force Special Operations Command combat controller, has received the Legion of Merit to honor his more than 30 years as a leader in special tactics operations. AFSOC boss Lt. Gen. Donald Wurster noted at the...

That is the word from Col. Bruce McClintock, commander of the 96th Air Base Wing at Eglin AFB, Fla., reports the Pensacola News Journal. McClintock was talking Jan. 13 to state legislators who are considering a measure that would lift...

Lockheed Martin executive Dan Crowley told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that the company is still discussing the troubled F-35 program with Pentagon officials, but he expected to see profits tied to successful testing and platform deliveries as the development phase...

As we reported Thursday, airmen were among the lead elements sent to Haiti following a massive Jan. 12 earthquake, including airmen of the 720th Special Tactics Group flying Wednesday aboard two 15th Special Operations Squadron MC-130Hs, both from Hurlburt Field,...

As scheduled, a force of airmen and 15 F-22 Raptors from the 90th Fighter Squadron at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, has deployed to Andersen AFB, Guam, as part of the now-normal Pacific Region rotation to support the US Pacific Command theater...

Retired Lt. Gen. James F. Record, who commanded 12th Air Force and Air Forces Southern prior to his retirement in 1997, died Dec. 22 from a form of leukemia. He was 71. Record entered the Air Force in 1961 through...

Retired Maj. Gen. John J. Pesch, who led the Air National Guard from April 1974 to January 1977 died Jan. 10 at his home in Virginia at age 88. He entered the Army Air Forces in 1942, initially flying the...

Associated Press reports that USAF has allowed two Air Force officers who stole classified material from a Minuteman III launch facility to resign. Capt. Paul Borowiecki left the service in September and Capt. Javed Abbas in December, USAF told AP....

Air Sorties in Southwest Asia, Jan. 11, 2010 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 28 29 57 645 CAS/Armed Recon 18 79 97 1,050 Airlift 147 147 1,705 Air refueling 47 47 470 Total 348 3,870 OIF=Operation Iraqi...