The Air Force logged its best year in terms of aviation safety in Fiscal 2014, according to a service release. Compared to Fiscal 2013, there was a 32 percent reduction in overall Class A aviation mishaps in Fiscal 2014, along...
Pacific Air Forces Commander Gen. Hawk Carlisle, who has been tapped to lead Air Combat Command, said some of his top priorities in his new role will be solving persistent command and control issues as well as data link challenges...
Pacific Air Forces likely will continue rotating Global Hawks to Japan after remotely piloted aircraft’s initial deployment to Misawa Air Base wraps up, said PACAF Commander Gen. Hawk Carlisle. “We are looking at the (deployment data) and by all accounts...
Pacific Air Forces boss Gen. Hawk Carlisle said Russia has shown no signs of scaling back its increased military presence in Asia-Pacific, including exercising strategic forces and conducting wider intelligence gathering activities. During a phone interview with reporters on Oct....
The F-15D pilot who ejected from his aircraft before it crashed during a training mission from RAF Lakenheath, England, on Oct. 8 has been released from the hospital and is “in fine spirits,” reported Stars and Stripes. The pilot, who...
Hundreds of airmen who left the service under the voluntary separation pay program do not have access to government medical coverage, even though they were told they did. Air Force spokesperson Rose Richeson said the service has provided medical care...
Rep. John Carney (D-Del.) is on a quest to prevent the Delaware Air National Guard’s C-130 Hercules from being permanently grounded, which he warns would “mean the end” of the state Guard’s flying mission. Carney is urgently seeking to gain...
Sixteen of the 20 C-27A transports the Air Force bought for the Afghan Air Force for $486 million did not to meet operational requirements in Afghanistan and were sold as scrap for $32,000, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction...
The Air Force announced two temporary duty policy changes targeting travel reimbursements. The first change, which took effect Oct. 1, affects incidental travel expenses. Under new regulations, expenses for laundry in the contiguous US, tips to baggage handlers by uniformed...
