U.S. AIR FORCE NEWS

  • VA officials strive to prevent veteran suicides

    With more than 6,000 veterans committing suicide every year, and 98 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan taking their own lives during fiscal 2009 alone,  Department of Veterans Affairs officials are redoubling their outreach to veterans and promoting the toll-free suicide-prevention hotline. National

  • Aircrew breaks C-17 record with heaviest airdrop

    Members of the 418th Flight Test Squadron here set a record for the heaviest single payload ever extracted out of a C-17A T-1 during flight April 14 over Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. A 77,000 pound jumbo drop test vehicle was extracted out of a C-17 at 25,000 feet. The JDTV is used to test the

  • Photo essay: Airmen train for cold weather survival

    Aircrew members with the 962nd Airborne Air Control Squadron participate in a refresher course April 12 for cold weather survival, evasion, resistance, and escape training  here.View the slideshow.

  • First Minotaur IV Lite launches from Vandenberg

    Members from the 30th Space Wing here launched the first Minotaur IV Lite launch vehicle at 4 p.m. April 22 here. The rocket carried the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2.The Minotaur family of launch vehicles are provided by the Orbital/Suborbital

  • Airmen help Sailors get back in the air

    Airmen here assisted a Navy flight crew when they experienced in-flight complications and were forced to make an emergency landing at Yokota Air Base April 15.The crew members of an SH-60 Seahawk helicopter from nearby Atsugi Naval Base were participating in a routine exercise when they began

  • Airmen, Soldiers team up to tackle threats

    Air Force and Army members here performed a joint, force-protection patrol April 14 near one of the U.S. Air Force's Central Command's main airbases in Iraq.Members of the Air Force's 532nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron and the Army's 1st of the 28th Infantry Battalion  teamed up and armed

  • Airman MIA from WWII is identified, returned home

    The remains of an Airman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and returned to his family for burial with full military honors, according to Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office officials.Tech. Sgt. Walter A. McClellan of the U.S. Army Air Forces will be

  • April 20 airpower summary

    Coalition airpower integrated with ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan during operations April 20 according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.Air Operations in AfghanistanClose-Air SupportQal E NawAn Air Force B-1B Lancer

  • April 19 airpower summary

    Coalition airpower integrated with ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan during operations April 19 according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.Air Operations in AfghanistanClose-Air SupportKonduzAir Force F-15E Strike Eagle