Twelve C-17s and five C-5s manned with Active Duty, Air National Guard, and Air Force Reserve Command crews on Nov. 1 began what Pentagon Press Secretary George Little dubbed a “significant airlift event” to help civilian authorities restore power in...

Most of the aircraft evacuated from several Air Force bases on the US East Coast, such as Dover AFB, Del., and JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., to avoid Superstorm Sandy have since returned home, representatives from those installations told the Daily Report....

Air Force operational testers have certified that the service’s new HC-130J Combat King II rescue aircraft and MC-130J Commando II special-mission tanker are “effective, suitable, and mission capable,” announced Lockheed Martin, the airplanes’ manufacturer, on Nov. 1. The certification came...

Papa Knows Best: The multinational Heavy Airlift Wing at Papa AB, Hungary, has flown more than 500 missions with its three C-17s since it began operations in mid 2009, according to unit officials. This includes transporting more than 29,000 passengers...

An expeditionary contingent of F-15Cs, pilots, and aircraft maintainers from Kadena AB, Japan, is currently deployed to JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, in support of the Alaskan NORAD Region, announced NORAD officials. This group is operating in Alaska as the 44th Expeditionary...

The Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a four-year, $39.7 million contract to design, develop, test, and qualify a replacement payload transporter system for the Minuteman III ICBM fleet, announced the company on Nov. 1. The existing payload transporter is nearing...

The United States is witnessing “unprecedented interest and cooperation” across world governments in preventing the use of weapons of mass destruction, said Thomas Countryman, assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation. For example, since a nuclear summit in...

Gen. Guillermo Galvan Galvan, Mexico’s secretary of national defense, last month toured Air Force Reserve Command’s 302nd Airlift Wing at Peterson AFB, Colo., to check out first-hand the unit’s aerial firefighting operations. The wing flies Modular Airborne Firefighting System-equipped C-130s....

Due to the inactivation of 13th Air Force last month, the 1st Air Support Operations Group at JB Lewis-McChord, Wash., shifted under the administrative oversight of the 354th Fighter Wing at Eielson AFB, Alaska, according to wing officials. The move...