Hoog Tapped as Assistant Vice Chief of Staff

President Obama nominated Lt. Gen. Stephen Hoog to be the Air Force’s assistant vice chief of staff, announced the Pentagon on Thursday. He would replace Lt. Gen. Frank Gorenc, who has been in this role since April 2012. As assistant...

Looking at Nuclear Motivations

By Marc V. Schanz
While US policy is pushing towards nuclear disarmament, the rest of the world is taking a different tack, said Barry Watts, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, on Thursday. While the United States and Soviet Union...

Kadena Lowers its Silver Flag

The 554th RED HORSE Squadron, Det. 1, concluded Silver Flag training operations at Kadena AB, Japan, when it graduated the sixth and final Silver Flag class of 2013, according to a base release. The detachment is moving to Guam where...

Westover Tests New Tail Enclosure

Airmen from Air Force Reserve Command’s 439th Maintenance Squadron at Westover ARB, Mass., tested the base’s new C-5 mobile tail enclosure, according to a base release. The MTE, “the largest structure of its kind in the Air Force,” is designed...

British Airmen Brought Up to Date on Rivet Joint

Sixty Royal Air Force airmen participated in RC-135 Rivet Joint upgrade training at Offutt AFB, Neb., according to base officials. The training took place in mid-April and included classroom instruction, working with a simulator, and flying in the latest version...

No-Shop Mondays

The Defense Commissary Agency announced that most military commissaries will close on Mondays when the Pentagon’s furloughs of civilian defense employees begin in July as a result of budget sequestration. The furloughs are scheduled to start on July 8 and...

Lawmakers Want Independent Look at Veterans’ Claims Processing

House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) and House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) introduced H.R. 2189, legislation that would establish an independent task force or commission to analyze the Veterans Affairs Department’s disability benefits claims processing system....

McGuire Rededicates C-118 Liftmaster

Air Force officials at JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., rededicated a C-118 Liftmaster on static display in front of the McGuire Passenger Terminal, according to a base release. Earlier this year, restoration of the aircraft concluded after some three-and-a-half-years of work. “The...