F-22s Arrive in Europe

Four F-22s have arrived at Spangdahlem AB, Germany, for the first European training deployment of Raptors, US European Command announced Aug. 28. The F-22s and 60 airmen from the 95th Fighter Squadron at Tyndall AFB, Fla., and a C-17 from...

For Future, NATO Looks North

By Marc V. Schanz
As part of NATO’s efforts to reset and reinvigorate its training and exercise planning, the Alliance plans to orchestrate and carry out one large-scale exercise like Trident Juncture approximately every three years, NATO Allied Command Transformation boss French Air Force...

Carter Announces Partnership For Flexible Technology

By Jennifer Hlad
The Pentagon is partnering with a consortium of 162 corporations, universities, and nonprofits to establish the FlexTech Alliance, a manufacturing innovation institute for bendable and wearable electronic devices, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced Aug. 28. DOD will invest $75...

Spotlight: SrA. Mason Meherg

SrA. Mason Meherg, a financial services technician with the 509th Comptroller Squadron at Whiteman AFB, Mo., is one of the Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2015. Meherg coordinated all separations and retirements for Whiteman Air Force...

JSTARS Head to Sea with Poseidon

E-8C JSTARS flew a networked anti-shipping scenario with Navy P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft during Exercise Boar’s Nest recently at Robins AFB, Ga. “This exercise showed that the JSTARS manned platform and the P-8 provided an amazing capability to detect,...

Leaders Present New Version of “Little Blue Book”

Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh, and CMSAF James Cody recently delivered the first copies of the new version of the “little blue book” to the service’s newest airmen. The new pamphlet, “America’s Air...

Oregon Air Guard Hosts Sentry Eagle 2015

The Oregon Air National Guard’s 173rd Fighter Wing at Kingsley Field, Ore., recently hosted more than 40 fighters from units in South Carolina, Arizona, Texas, and California as part of Sentry Eagle 2015, a large force dissimilar air combat training...

AFRL Hands Off Ionospheric Research Facility

The Air Force Research Laboratory handed over its High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program facility in remote Gakona, Alaska, to the University of Alaska Fairbanks during a ceremony Aug. 11, officials announced. “The government’s invested about ?290 million federal dollars....

Indian Students Develop Modules For C-130J Contest

Students from universities in India recently presented design concepts for modules to support disaster relief operations in the country, Lockheed Martin said in a news release. Teams from five universities in India met with Indian Air Force C-130J pilots, engineers,...