U.S. AIR FORCE NEWS

  • Baseball: Air Force gets two little, too late

    Air Force lost 7-2 to  No. 28 TCU Sunday in Mountain West Conference baseball action at Lupton Stadium. The loss drops the Falcons to 5-18, 0-3 and the Horned Frogs improve to 15-6, 3-0. TCU scored the first seven runs in the game and coasted to the 7-2 win. Frogs' starter Chris Johnson, 3-2, picked

  • Gymnastics: Rogers wins floor exercise

    Sophomore Abigail Rogers won the floor exercise with a career-best score of 9.750, as the Air Force women's gymnastics team dropped a 191.600-185.600 decision to visiting Cal-Berkeley March 18. Rogers' winning mark matched her personal-high score, which she first set at Ohio State. While Rogers was

  • March 10-16: The week in airpower

    In Afghanistan this week 289 close air support missions were flown in support of the International Security Assistance Force and Afghan troops, reconstruction activities and route patrols. A total of 61 Air Force and Royal Air Force intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft flew

  • March 17 airpower: Strike Eagles return fire in Afghanistan

    U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for March 17. In Afghanistan March 16, Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles supporting coalition forces returned fire to an enemy location near Now Zad. The F-15s made three passes over the target area, expending multiple guided

  • Hockey: Falcons advance to NCAA tournament

    Andrew Ramsey and Josh Frider each scored two goals as Air Force beat Army, 6-1, in the championship game of the Atlantic Hockey Association Tournament, Saturday, March 17, at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, N.Y. With the win, Air Force clinches its first ever conference tournament championship

  • Baseball: Falcons fall to TCU, 10-2

    No. 28 TCU broke open a 1-1 tie with six unanswered runs to defeat Air Force 10-2 in a Mountain West Conference baseball game March 17 at Lupton Stadium. The Falcons fall to 5-17, 0-2 while the Horned Frogs improve to 14-6, 2-0. After Air Force tied the game 1-1 in the top of the fourth, TCU

  • Lacrosse: Air Force falls to No. 11 Bucknell

    Giving up a 5-0 lead in the opening half, the Air Force lacrosse team was unable to get past 11th-ranked Bucknell, dropping the 8-3 contest March 17 afternoon at Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium. The Falcons fall to 1-4 on the season with the loss, while the Bison improve to 6-1 overall. Shutting

  • Oldest GPS satellite being prepared for disposal

    The oldest operational satellite in the GPS constellation has broadcast its signal for more than 16 years, during which time that signal's mission applications -- and the people who make sure the signal is available -- have changed dramatically. When Satellite Vehicle Number 15 launched Oct. 1,

  • Airmen hone advanced contingency skills in manuevers

    Airmen practice squad and fire team manuevers March 14 on a Fort Dix, N.J., range with other students as part of a tactics and patrolling class for the Advanced Contingency Skills Training Course. The course, made up of more than 300 students, prepares Airmen for upcoming deployments through

  • Balad air traffic controllers maintain safer skies for Iraq

    With 5,000 air operations per week within a five-nautical-mile radius from surface level to 3,000 feet, the airfield here is the busiest in the Department of Defense. In fact, the runways at Balad Air Base are part of the world's busiest combat operation. At this pace, the 22 Airmen assigned as air