US Air Force News

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. Lt. Col. Luke Thompson sometimes skims his C-130 cargo plane just 150 above the ground, battling smoke, shifting winds and rugged terrain on his way to blast thousands of gallons of gooey pink fire retardant onto the front lines of a wildfire."It's kind of like pushing an elephant around on ice," he said.The Air Force ...

Sunday, July 05, 2009 KABUL: Two US soldiers and seven Afghan policemen were killed in separate explosions Saturday.

Ousted President Manuel Zelaya said Saturday that he would return to Honduras to try to retake office following last week's military-backed coup, despite warnings of a potentially bloody confrontation and the interim government's vow to arrest him and put him on trial.

Ousted President Manuel Zelaya said Saturday that he would return to Honduras to try to retake office following last week's military-backed coup, despite warnings of a potentially bloody confrontation and the interim government's vow to arrest him and put him on trial.

Air Force Major David Graham wanted to be a pilot since was a kid growing up in Horseheads.

The grieving family of an RAF pilot who died with his navigator when their Tornado jet crashed into an Argyll hillside said they took comfort from the fact he died "doing what he loved." Flight Lieutenants Kenneth Thompson, 27, and Nigel Morton, 43, of 43 Squadron, RAF Leuchars in Fife, were on a training mission with another Tornado when their F3 ...

Saturday, July 04, 2009 KANDAHAR: The Taliban Movement fighting the foreign troops in Afghanistan said Friday that it had not started directly countering the British and US operations underway in Helmand province but was using guerrilla tactics.

U.S. Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on the second day of the biggest American military operation here since the fall of the Taliban government in 2001.

Each combat controller is a fully qualified air traffic control expert, able to manage the complex air operations above a combat zone or remote airfield.

The Central Intelligence Agency crucified a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to a report published in The New Yorker magazine.

Northrop Grumman received a $75 million contract award on 30 June, with the sum providing long-lead funding to start building two RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30 and four Block 40 unmanned air vehicles for the US Air Force.

D. a Druze Air Force officer complained Wednesday that his was humiliated by the security staff at the Eilat airfield.

French planes hunted on Wednesday for the flight recorder from a plane that crashed into deep water off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros.

The new commander of McChord Air Force Base expects a lot of work from an anticipated troop buildup in Afghanistan.

COLUMBUS - Take it from Jim Tressel, now an experienced world traveler. There are few places like Djibouti in early June.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison, which saw some of the fiercest Vietnam War protests in the nation, is shedding its long-standing antimilitary image by hiring a military historian and teaching a new course for military officers.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 The Boeing Co. has announced it won a $750 million, 10-year contract from the U.S. Air Force for engineering support on the B-52 bomber.

A Spanish court on Tuesday shelved a judge's investigation of an Israeli air force bombing in Gaza in 2002 that killed a suspected Hamas militant and 14 civilians, including nine children, siding with prosecutors who said Spain lacks jurisdiction.

Soldiers ousted the democratically elected president of Honduras on Sunday and Congress named a successor, but the leftist ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced what he called an illegal coup and vowed to stay in power.

Ahmed J Versi President Barack Obama's landmark speech to an invited audience at Cairo University earlier this month had nothing new.