August 10, 2015 - RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AFNS) -- The U.S. Air Force deployed a small detachment -- six F-16 Fighting Falcons, support equipment and about 300 personnel -- to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. This follows Turkey's decision to host the deployment of U.S. aircraft conducting counter-Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant … [Read more...]
CSAF Listens to Airmen, Discusses Nuclear Enterprise Mission
August 7, 2015 - MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. (AFNS) -- Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A Welsh III visited three Air Force Global Strike Command bases to listen to Airmen of all ranks who support the Global Strike mission on a daily basis, while addressing the importance of the nuclear enterprise and its future. Earlier in the week, Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee … [Read more...]
Maintainers Extend Life of T-38 Talon
August 7, 2015 - HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AFNS) -- The Air Force's trusted trainer, the T-38 Talon, has a new lease on life thanks to a robust structural-modification program. Technicians in the Ogden Air Logistics Complex's 575th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, recently completed the first aircraft in the program and are currently … [Read more...]
Hohenfels Training Area Cleared to Land C-130 Aircraft on New Airstrip
HOHENFELS, Germany (Aug. 6, 2015) -- A joint team from the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army conducted the first C-130 landing at Joint Multinational Readiness Center, or JMRC, in over two years, July 29. The test landing is a precursor to Exercise Swift Response 15, which will occur at Hohenfels in August. "Today certifies and validates the landing sequence that is going to … [Read more...]
Tech Report: The X-37B
August 5, 2015, FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (AFNS) – The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is an experimental test program to demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable and unmanned space test platform for the Air Force. The primary objectives of the X-37B are twofold: reusable spacecraft technologies for America's future in space and operating experiments which can be … [Read more...]