Iraqi F-16s have joined the air campaign against ISIS terrorists, Iraqi Air Force Commander Anwar Hamad Amin announced during a press conference in Baghdad on Sunday. “The blows of these aircrafts [sic] were accurate and carried out based on accurate...
The operation of six US F-16s from Incirlik AB, Turkey, has significantly broadened coalition air operations against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria, according to the head of the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Kevin...
Operation Inherent Resolve officials and now Moscow are denying reports Russia has dispatched combat aircraft to Syria as well as pilots and advisors to assist the Assad regime by striking ISIS and rebel elements. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Kevin Killea,...
SSgt Douglas Kechijian, a pararescueman with the Air National Guard’s 103rd Rescue Squadron at Westhampton Beach, N.Y., is one of the Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2015. Kechijian excelled as a pararescue element leader in support...
Pacific Air Force officials have not yet signed a memorandum of understanding that would allow Air Force Global Strike Command to set up a detachment of personnel at Andersen AFB, Guam, to support the command’s continuous bomber presence mission. “We...
Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., has deployed more than 1,200 people and nearly 600 tons of cargo this year, shattering previous deployment records, according to a base release. Airmen from every Active Duty unit on base have deployed in support of Operation...
The 1st Expeditionary Rescue Group activated at an undisclosed base in the Persian Gulf region to provided combat search and rescue for coalition forces operating over Iraq and Syria, officials announced. After ISIS fanatics burned a downed Jordanian F-16 pilot...
The Active Duty 96th Air Refueling Squadron at JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, inactivated as an associate unit to the Hawaii Air National Guard’s 203rd ARS in a ceremony Sept. 3, according to a release. The squadron stood up to augment...
Air National Guard C-130 aircrew are training their US Forest Service counterparts to employ the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System to augment wildfire suppression capability. The USFS crews are flying the first of seven HC-130Hs, which were passed from the...