Raptor Rescue Air Combat Command temporarily lifted its F-22 fleetwide grounding to let the 28 aircraft based at JB Langley-Eustis, Va., escape Hurricane Irene, which hit the East Coast in late August. Grounded due to a malfunction with the aircraft’s...
Air Guard Worries “I’m very concerned that, just because of the age of our fleet, some people might discard our Air Guard as out-of-date and incapable of being recapitalized. I’m not willing to accept that. But I know intuitively that...
“Roles and Missions” Gen. Merrill A. McPeak, USAF Address to the Heritage Foundation Washington, DC October 17, 1994 FULL TEXT VERSION In late 1994, Gen. Merrill A. McPeak lobbed a roles-and-missions bomb into the nation’s defense community. The soon-to-retire USAF...
Get On With It “The False Death of Airpower” strikes a blow for sanity in the continuing national saga of what to do with airpower, indeed with the US Air Force [“Editorial,” August, p. 4]. An underappreciated component of airpower...
Iron Gate Salutes 50 Years In New York City in July, the Iron Gate Chapter celebrated its golden anniversary with a salute to the Air Force—and a visit from the Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. Norton A. Schwartz. Chapter...
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