Intel Priorities

The military intelligence program is focused on space security, airborne ISR, cyber capabilities, sustaining and growing the unmanned aerial vehicle fleet, and strengthening security and counterintelligence to address insider threats, according to a heavily redacted copy of the program’s Fiscal...

Lost in the Clouds

Ice buildup and a momentary loss of satellite link caused a MQ-1B remotely piloted aircraft to stall and ?then crash in an undisclosed location last September, Air Combat Command investigators found. Just as the operator at Creech AFB, Nev., momentarily...

General Overload

There are at least 12 US generals in Iraq, despite the fact that only about 5,000 total US troops are deployed to Iraq and Syria, The Daily Beast reported Thursday. Army Lt. Gen. Sean McFarland heads up the war against...

Iraqi Gains Reduce Attacks on US Base

Iraqi advances have reduced the number of attacks on the US firebase where a Marine was killed by an ISIS rocket attack March 19, a deputy commander for Operation Inherent Resolve said Thursday. During a Pentagon briefing, British army Maj....

Guard F-15s Make Up Latest European TSP

A dozen F-15C Eagles from Barnes ANGB, Mass., and Fresno ANGB, Calif., will deploy to Iceland and the Netherlands in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve beginning April 1. Approximately 350 airmen from the Massachusetts Air National Guard’s 131st Fighter Squadron...

Checking Off a 7,000-Item To-Do

A 7,000-item to-do list could have become another morale drain for the nuclear force, but a maintenance team at Malmstrom AFB, Mont., did not let it. The 341st Missile Maintenance Squadron at Malmstrom AFB, Mont., tackled the overdue periodic maintenance...

No Troops Injured in Diyarbakir Bombing

No US troops are known to have been hurt in the bomb attack Thursday that killed six police officers and injured two dozen people in Diyarbakir, Turkey, European Command officials said. The attack targeted a police vehicle near the city’s...

Defense Chiefs Discuss European Security

Defense leaders from 10 northern European allies and the head of US European Command met this week at a conference in Latvia to facilitate bilateral defense communication and cooperation. “We discussed the security situation here in Europe. We had candid...