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Oct. 21, 2008
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Kings of Virtual Turkey Shoot

Airmen of the 13th Fighter Squadron and the 35th Fighter Wing at Misawa AB, Japan, were the top-scoring F-16 operators during the first Combat Air Force-wide Distributed Mission Operations Turkey Shoot late last month, according to an Oct. 15 release....

Idaho Air Guard Tops Hawgsmoke

The top team at Hawgsmoke 2008, flown out over the Smoky Hill Range near Salina, Kan., last week, is the 190th Fighter Squadron of the Idaho Air National Guard. Air Force Reserve Command’s 442nd Fighter Wing at Whiteman AFB, Mo.,...

Largest SFS in Air Guard

The North Dakota Air National Guard on Oct. 18 formally activated its new 219th Security Forces Squadron, which is to work with the active-duty 91st SFS at Minot AFB, N.D. to secure 91st Missile Wing ICBM facilities. When fully staffed,...

ABM to ALO Numbers to Increase

The Air Force in Fiscal 2008 put some 25 Air Battle Managers who serve on E-3 AWACS command and control aircraft into the field as Air Liaison Officers and plans to increase that number by 50 percent in 2009. The...

Second Simulator at Dover

Airmen who fly the behemoth C-5 airlifter from Dover AFB, Del., will not need to go elsewhere to get their training for the upgraded C-5, the C-5M, now that the base has two simulators. According to an Oct. 16 release,...

Three Bronze Stars

The Air Force has awarded Bronze Star medals to four airmen for their actions supporting the war on terror. MSgt. Darrin Goetchius, now a maintenance supervisor at Nellis AFB, Nev., served as a combat aviation advisor, training Iraqi forces on...

Airman Engineer Wins Air Force Award

SrA. Christopher Davidson is the Air Force’s Space Systems Operator of the Year for 2007 in the airman category. Davidson is the first airman engineer in the 3rd Space Operations Squadron at Schriever AFB, Colo., where he led the first...

A Tuskegee Highway and More

The National Park Service has opened the National Tuskegee Airmen Historic Site at Alabama’s Moton Field, which, along with Tuskegee Army Air Field, trained black airmen during World War II. During the Oct. 10 opening ceremony, attended by federal, state,...

Ready, RIF

Officials at Sheppard AFB, Tex., are urging civilian personnel there to ensure their paperwork is up to snuff as the base moves toward a Reduction in Force based on the long-awaited outsourcing decision released in late August. And, according to...

Briefer Briefs

Virginia plans to consolidate its Air National Guard and Army National Guard headquarters in Sandston by 2014, moving some 260 jobs from Blackstone and prompting the small town to cry foul, reports The Times-Dispatch. • The New Hampshire Air National...

Air Sorties in War on Terrorism, Southwest Asia

Oct. 16-17, 2008 Sortie Type OIF OEF OIF/OEF Total YTD ISR 54 27 81 10,550 CAS/Armed Recon 67 140 207 29,806 Airlift 255 255 37,649 Air refueling 103 103 14,718 Total 646 92,723 OIF=Operation Iraqi Freedom OEF=Operation Enduring Freedom ISR=Intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance...