U.S. Air Force News

April 27, 2015
Buckley EO earns AF-level recognition

The 460th Space Wing Equal Opportunity Office was awarded the Colonel L. Joseph Brown Award - Equal Opportunity Program as part of the 2014 Manpower Personnel and Service Annual Awards Program.
April 26, 2015
AF sends aircraft to support disaster-assistance operations in Nepal

The U.S. has sent an Air Force aircraft to Nepal to deliver personnel and cargo in support of disaster-relief operations, according to Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren.
April 26, 2015
Elmendorf Airman named Alaska bodybuilding champion

Airman 1st Class James Jones, a 673rd Communications Squadron cyber systems operator, participated in the 2015 National Physique Committee Alaska State Championships on April 4. He spent more than a year preparing, chiseling at his physique slowly but surely every day. Hundreds of hours in the gym,
April 25, 2015
New AF maintenance technology keeps aging tankers flying

The 92nd Maintenance Squadron now uses a new technologically advanced parts fabrication machine extending the life of one of the Air Force's oldest airframes -- the KC-135 Stratotanker.
April 24, 2015
Airmen return A-10 to air after catastrophic engine failure in Iraq

A maintenance repair team from the 332nd Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron recently responded to an A-10C Thunderbolt II that suffered a noncombat-related engine failure and had to divert to Al Asad Air Base, Iraq.
April 24, 2015
Acquisitions enterprise: Agility and people key to reform

Dr. William LaPlante, assistant secretary of Air Force acquisition, along with the Navy and Army acquisition secretaries testified on acquisition reform before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, April 22.
April 24, 2015
Medal of Honor recipient speaks to McConnell Airmen

The first living Medal of Honor recipient from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq shared his story with McConnell Air Force Base members April 21.
April 24, 2015
Medics participate in Ultimate Caduceus 15

Members of the 22nd Medical Group, and units from across the U.S., participated in Ultimate Caduceus 2015, giving them the opportunity to conduct aeromedical evacuation training, April 16-18, at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans, Louisiana.
April 24, 2015
Troops conduct biannual 'ammo barge' mission in Alaska

Twice a year, millions of pounds of explosives and ammunition travel north through Pacific waters in a biannual migration designed to resupply military installations across Alaska.
April 24, 2015
AF releases new integrated priority list

The Air Force released its second comprehensive two-year integrated priority list (IPL) this month.The IPL strategically orders requirements for facility sustainment, restoration, modernization, environmental, energy, dormitory and demolition projects across the Air Force.

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