U.S. AIR FORCE NEWS

  • A-10 makes wheels-up landing

    An Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II made an emergency landing here without its landing gear March 25.The aircraft was participating in a Green Flag sortie out of Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The plane, which had one person aboard, is assigned to the 75th Fighter Squadron at Moody AFB, Ga. The pilot

  • Chairman of Joint Chiefs visits Pope

    Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Pope Air Force Base and Fort Bragg March 31. While at Pope, he toured Pope's Green Ramp, visiting with warfighters from many of Pope's squadrons. He met with an aeromedical evacuation crew from the 43rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron;

  • Training video filmed at AFPC, various locations

    "Roll 'em!" the director yelled. The clapboard was snapped and the film crew jumped into action.Although this is a common occurrence in Hollywood, it's an unusual one at the Air Force Personnel Center here. The filming was part of two 15-minute videos that will be used for training Air Force family

  • Lakenheath Airmen support NATO summit

    The 493rd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron's aircraft and Airmen currently are projecting airpower and establishing air superiority from Bulgaria in support of the NATO summit as part of Operation Noble Endeavor in Bucharest, Romania. F-15 Eagles deployed from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, are

  • Miami beats Air Force, 3-2, in overtime in NCAA tourney

    Miami's Justin Mercier scored with just under five minutes remaining in overtime to lift the top-seeded RedHawks past fourth-seeded Air Force, 3-2, in the semifinals of the NCAA Northeast Regional at the DCU Center, March 29, in Worcester, Mass. Miami got on the board quickly on the first shift of

  • Ramstein Airmen participate in Exercise Thracian Spring

    Airmen from the 86th Airlift Wing and the 435th Air Base Wing at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany, as well as master jumpmasters from the 5th Quartermasters at Rhein Ordnance Barracks, Germany, joined forces with Bulgarian military forces to conduct Exercise Thracian Spring here from March 26 to

  • Academy volunteers help Navajo Korean War veteran

    Air Force Academy cadets, civil engineering professors and family members performed volunteer work during the Academy's spring break March 24 to 28 on a Navajo reservation here. Organized by the Academy's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Southwest Indian Foundation, one of

  • Airmen expand Air Force global reach with KC-10s

    Providing 1 million gallons of jet fuel weekly, the KC-10 Extender and the Airmen of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing who support it give global reach to U.S. and coalition aircraft supporting operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. "The common theory on tankers is that we are a force