U.S. AIR FORCE NEWS

  • Maxwell trainers develop Iraqi air force officers

    Four Officer Training School instructors returned here recently after spending the past several months in Iraq building the country's air force officer training program from the ground up. Maj. Scott Bergren and Capt. Michael Powell worked at Taji Air Base, Iraq, to establish a stand-alone officer

  • Comm team prepares Kadena for cyber war

    "Intruders" from cyberspace are trying to hack into the Kadena Air Base network and steal information from unsuspecting e-mail users. The intruders are not hackers, though they pretend to be to gain access to information they would need if they wanted to cripple the mission here. Fortunately, they

  • American servicemembers deploy to Costa Rica

    More than 600 patients were seen during a two-day medical readiness training exercise Dec. 18 and 19 in Costa Rica by Joint Task Force-Bravo American servicemembers from Soto Cano, Honduras. The team, made up of 28 Airmen and Soldiers spent two days in the village of Piedra Mesa operating a

  • Dec. 24 airpower summary: B-1Bs deliver precision strikes

    Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan during operations Dec. 24, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles performed shows of force

  • A day at the Port

    Senior Airman Andres Silvera, a 332nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron aerial port flight transportation specialist, guides a k-loader into place to offload cargo at Balad Air Base, Iraq. Airman Silvera is deployed from Pope Air Force Base, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Terri

  • Dec. 23 airpower summary: F-16 destroys enemy rocket site

    Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations Dec. 23, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan,A-10 Thunderbolt IIs engaged enemy combatants who were in

  • Holiday greetings

    Army Pvt. Zachariah Harvey, an artilleryman deployed to Camp Taji, reads a holiday card Dec, 24 from members of Girl Scout Troop 47534 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Private Harvey, a native of Le Roy, Minn., was wounded by a gun shot north of Baghdad Dec. 23. He is recovering at the Air Force Theater

  • Dec. 22 airpower summary: F-15s support coalition forces

    Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations Dec. 22, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, an Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle deterred enemy activities