Creech Air Force Base News

Nevada military posts took no extraordinary precautions as a result of the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas.

CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. a ' Thirty years ago this week, a group of Iranian "students" shouting "death to America" stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking nearly 100 hostages a ' among them 65 Americans.

Two new programs here are focused on getting care and services to wounded or sick servicemembers and to military families during their loved ones' deployments.

Staff Sgt. David Popp meets with Afghan prison officials during a mentoring session Oct.

" The daily work duties are arduous, involving close tracking of insurgents, patiently watching them dart in and out of shelters and, if the opportunity presents itself, occasionally raining missiles down on their heads.

Airmen operating unmanned aerial vehicles had better get comfortable - they will be staying put until at least Sept.

In this March 13, 2007 file photo released by the Department of Defense, An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle from the 42nd Attack Squadron taxis into Creech Air Force Base, Nev.. U.S. military surveillance drones based in the Seychelles islands are patrolling off Somalia's coast in hopes of stemming a rising piracy trade.

With Joe Biden advocating an Afghanistan strategy that concentrates on remote drones, Douglas Rushkoff visits the Nevada site where soldiers play videogames - and real people die.

Dan Winters The Predator's big brother, the Reaper, is a third bigger, flies three times as fast, and carries a much bigger payload The war begins each day on the long drive into the desert, just past the Super Buffet and the Home Depot and the Petco, and the swath of look-alike houses that cling to the city's edge, along the forty miles of the ...

Air Force leaders met at an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance summit here Sept.

The first MQ-9 Reaper to arrive at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., made its first local flight Oct.1, expanding the capacity for the base's remotely piloted vehicle formal training unit.

Air Force Airman 1st Class Holly Hughes, who is 22 weeks pregnant, and Airman 1st Class Michael Ruark laugh while opening gifts for their daughter Saturday during Nevada's largest military baby shower at Nellis Air Force Base.

Page 1 of 2 Kabul 2009: War of the Worlds redux By Tom Engelhardt An unremarkable paragraph in a piece in my hometown paper recently caught my eye.

The hazards of operating unmanned aerial systems were magnified in September by a number of UAS mishaps for the Air Force and Army.

Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project , runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. He is the author of The End of Victory Culture , a history of the Cold War and beyond, as well as of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing .

Page 1 of 2 Payback time By Julian Delasantellis They say it's not easy to be a teenaged girl these days, and, wherever in the world you're talking about, that's probably right.

As a small boy living near an Air Force base in Florida, Steve Petrizzo would crane his neck as jets roared overhead.

CREECH AIR FORCE BASE: Airmen of the 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing here surpassed the 600,000 flight hour mark in the MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft system Sept.

Airmen of the 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., last month surpassed the 600,000 flight hour mark in the MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft system.

Staff Sgt. Austin May designed an occupational badge, or wings, to be worn by future unmanned aircraft system pilots.