Air Force Special Operations Command will start forward deploying some of its CV-22 Ospreys at RAF Mildenhall, England, in Fiscal 2012. The Air Force then will base additional tilt-rotor aircraft in Pacific “over the next couple of years,” said Lt....
In the middle of what turned into a month of pop-up crises, the expeditionary wing formed to support Libya operations was a “magical” effort—comprising active duty, Air National Guardsmen, and Air Force Reserves—that came together overnight , Gen. Raymond Johns,...
Air Force Global Strike Command is increasing its rotary-wing personnel pool to allow for round-the-clock missile field security alerts once the current UH-1N Huey helicopter force is replaced. Transitioning to the future common vertical lift support platform “requires a plus-up...
Gen. Mark Welsh, head of US Air Forces in Europe, thinks the Air Force can save some money by reducing its mentorship of some other countries’ air forces. In Wednesday’s Four Star Forum, he said: “The one thing we can...
Air Force Special Operations Command comprises some of the most stressed career fields in the entire Air Force. Some air commandos have deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan as many as 20 times, said AFSOC Commander Lt. Gen. Eric Fiel, Wednesday...
Covering transportation for all of the Department of Defense is a demanding job—as at any given moment, one crisis can compound into multiple crises, according to US Transportation Command boss USAF Gen. Duncan McNabb. This year, everything broke open in...
Expanded efforts in building the capacity of smaller sized air forces in Central American partner nations is one area that Gen. Douglas Fraser, US Southern Command head, highlighted in his address at AFA’s Air & Space Conference Wednesday. He said...
South American drug traffickers have upped the ante once again in their efforts to sneak their wares, in particular cocaine, into the United States, Gen. Douglas Fraser, US Southern Command boss, told attendees at AFA’s Air & Space Conference Wednesday....
Operation Odyssey Dawn was a poster child for maintaining forward basing, Maj. Gen. Margaret Woodward, head of 17th Air Force/Air Forces Africa and air commander of the operation, told reporters Wednesday. “We talk all the time about … global reach,...
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes that the US would face “hollowing out” its military if the “sequester mechanism” actually comes into play. Panetta told reporters Sept. 20, during a briefing on the DADT repeal, that the Defense Department could trim...
Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen said earlier this week at a Pentagon press briefing that “programs that are behind schedule or woefully over budget should be considered for elimination” as the Defense Department and military services seek the planned...
The DOD POW/Missing Personnel Office announced identification of the remains of four airmen, part of a 10-man B-17 crew lost in the Pacific in 1943. The airmen were on a bombing mission over Papau New Guinea in their B-17 Naughty...