Operation Enduring Freedom Turns 10

Friday marks the 10th anniversary of the start of Operation Enduring Freedom. “While our raids today focus on the Taliban and the foreign terrorists in Afghanistan, our aim remains much broader. Our objective is to defeat those who use terrorism,...

Panetta Explains Guidelines for Ending NATO’s Libya Mission

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday consensus exists among NATO members on how to decide when to end the alliance’s operation in Libya. NATO will make the decision based on guidelines for evaluating the conditions on the ground there, he...

Carter’s New Job

Ash Carter became deputy defense secretary during a private swearing-in ceremony at the Pentagon Thursday. He replaced Bill Lynn, who stepped down after serving in that role since February 2009. Carter has been the Pentagon’s acquisition executive since April 2009...

Nellis Airman Awarded DFC

Maj. Ryan Hayde, an A-10 pilot and commander’s action group chief for the 57th Wing at Nellis AFB, Nev., received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his heroic actions in Afghanistan. On Oct. 29, 2010, Hayde led a nighttime A-10 flight...

JSTARS Gets Associated, No Longer Blended

Air Force officials activated the 461st Air Control Wing to operate E-8 JSTARS aircraft at Robins AFB, Ga., in an active association with the Georgia Air National Guard’s 116th Air Control Wing. The 116th ACW originally formed in 2002 as...

Medical Group in Place at New Home

The 937th Training Group stood up at Joint Base San Antonio with the mission to develop, conduct, and evaluate military medical training. The unit, previously known as the 882nd Training Group, relocated to San Antonio from Sheppard Air Force Base...

Here Comes the Sun

A C-17 from JB Lewis-McChord, Wash., landed at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, for the first re-supply flight of Operation Deep Freeze’s 2011-12 summer field season. Staged from Christchurch, New Zealand, the C-17 overflew the city’s iconic cathedral—damaged in a devastating earthquake...

Huddling Round the Fire

Personnel at Thule AB, Greenland, installed exhaust boilers on each of the base’s five locomotive-style engines that generate electricity for the base. The boilers will help produce heat for Thule, which, located 700 miles above the Arctic Circle, requires year-round...