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Air Force Officials Adopt Personnel Recovery As Core Function
MOODY AIR FORCE BASE: Air Force officials are transitioning their combat search and rescue motto to an over-arching name that encompasses all rescue assets under the same umbrella mindset with a more current operational focus. Personnel recovery fulfills a promise to never leave an American behind and the new slogan comprises not only combat search [...]
Air Force to Protect Iraq Security Gains as Forces Withdraw from Cities
WASHINGTON: As U.S. forces in Iraq prepare to pull back from most major cities by June 30, U.S. air support will continue to enable and protect security gains made over the past two years, a U.S. commander said in a “DoDLive” bloggers roundtable June 17. Col. Michael Fantini, commander of the 332nd Expeditionary Operations Group, [...]
Air Force Official Discusses 21st Century ISR Challenges
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass: In an environment marked by ever-increasing threats, Airmen must enhance an already-sharp focus on information gathering and sharing, a top Air Force official said during a forum held June 10 in Burlington, Mass. Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula, the Air Force deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, [...]
Maintainers keep F-22s ready in Guam
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam: To support F-22 Raptors deployed here as part of U.S. Pacific Command’s Theater Security Packages, a team of maintenance personnel are working behind the scenes to ensure that each flying mission is a success. The team of 150 Airmen from the 525th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Unit at Elmendorf Air Force [...]
Fighter Drawdown Dynamics: Effects on Aircrew Inventories
Summary The Air Force faces an increasing demand for personnel with pilot skills, a demand driven by the expanding number and size of various staffs (such as those of air operations centers) and an increased demand for operators of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), who, by Air Force policy, must be pilots.1 At the same time, [...]
RAF gives training tips to the Pakistan Air Force
Members of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Flying Instructors School (FIS) have paid a visit to North Yorkshire to come face-to-face with their British RAF counterparts. The visit to RAF Linton-on-Ouse was part of a fact-finding mission to allow the PAF to find out more about the RAF’s training programmes, particularly the advanced courses for [...]
Air Force officials revise fitness program
WASHINGTON: The need for a “clear, understandable and simpler” fitness program will mean significant changes to the Air Force’s current fitness program, said the service’s top officer during a senior leadership conference held June 4 through 6 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz met with the service’s [...]
Air Force researcher wins top science award
LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas: A Wilford Hall doctor has received one of the highest distinctions a researcher can achieve, according to medical officials here. Maj. (Dr) Vikhyat Bebarta, chief of medical toxicology and a staff emergency physician, is the recipient of the Best Basic Science Research Award, presented by the Society of Academic Emergency [...]
General cites importance of airpower for Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan: The Afghan National Army Air Corps is a vital and rapidly growing component of Afghanistan’s security forces and is building airpower to deny terrorists a safe haven in Afghanistan, a U.S. Air Force general here said. Afghanistan’s vast and forbidding terrain, the threat posed by roadside bombs and the country’s nearly total lack [...]
