Air Force Global Strike Command is planning to set up a detachment of permanent party personnel at Andersen AFB, Guam, to focus solely on supporting the rotational bomb squadron deployed there as part of the Air Force’s continuous bomber presence,...

Air Force Global Strike Command and Pacific Air Forces are still ironing out the details to the Air Force’s proposed new permanent party detachment on Guam. AFGSC boss Lt. Gen. Stephen Wilson has already signed a memorandum of understanding, and...

The decision to permanently assign personnel at Andersen AFB, Guam, to support the Air Force’s continuous bomber presence mission first came from suggestions made through the Force Improvement Program, said officials. Air Force Global Strike Command sent a three-man tiger...

Russia is violating provisions of the Open Skies treaty by barring Air Force OC-135s from observing key strategic areas, according to the State Department’s 2015 arms control treaty compliance report, released on June 5. “We have been unable to conduct...

A B-2, serial number 89-0129, known as the “Spirit of Georgia,” made an emergency landing at MacDill AFB, Fla., following in-flight avionics and communications failures on April 23, officials announced on June 10. The B-2 pilots established communications with MacDill...

Eagles and Strike Eagles from RAF Lakenheath, UK, fanned out to exercises in southern Europe this month to continue training while Lakenheath’s runway is under repair. Fifteen F-15Es and 300 airmen from the 492nd Fighter Squadron relocated to Aviano AB,...

Air Combat Command rolled out an air traffic radar upgrade to minimize signal interference from commercial wind-turbine farms, officials announced. “The results have proven successful by any measure,” Federal Aviation Administration engineering team leader Mark Carmouche said in a June...