U.S. AIR FORCE NEWS

  • Wrestling superstars end Afghan tour

    World Wrestling Entertainment superstars, and its flamboyant chairman Vince McMahon, wrapped up their third “Tribute to the Troops” tour with a live-to-tape show of WWE’s Monday Night “RAW.” The wrestlers ended their tour Dec. 9. Before leaving Dec. 10, WWE Women’s Champion Trish Stratus said her

  • Airmen keeping search and rescue 'choppers' flying

    Whether it’s for a matter of life and death or a routine mission, 64th Expeditionary Helicopter Maintenance Unit troops here keep their combat search and rescue helicopters ready. The unit’s more than 30 Airmen never stop working to maintain and repair the HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters that fly from

  • Supersonic Raptor drops first guided bomb

    An F/A-22 Raptor flying at supersonic speed dropped its first 1,000-pound guided joint direct attack munition over the range here. Since July, Raptor program have flown seven JDAM supersonic separation test missions under a variety of conditions. The aim is to prove the JDAM can safely separate from

  • Airman gets 17 years confinement

    A general court-martial sentenced an NCO to 17 years confinement after finding him guilty of rape, sodomy and striking a child. A military judge also sentenced Tech. Sgt. Larry Pauly to a dishonorable discharge and reduction to airman basic. Sergeant Pauly, of the 3rd Maintenance Operations

  • Warfare center offers online courses

    Ever wonder how wartime planners decide the best ways to organize and deploy air mobility forces and assets? Who goes in to start a bare-base operation, security forces or the tanker airlift control element and what are the variables in determining how many pallets you can load on a fully tanked

  • Officers needed for advanced degree, cross-flow opportunities

    Qualified officers who apply by the Jan. 15 application deadline may compete for and earn a master's degree in the Program for Acquisition and Contracting Experience with follow-on cross-flow assignments. Eligible contracting and acquisitions officers must have between three and seven years of

  • Male, female athletes of the year announced

    One shoots at targets, the other at strikeouts, but both are the Air Force Services Agency’s Athletes of the Year for 2005. Maj. Roger Sherman, a special assistant to the commander of U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., is the 2005 Male Athlete of the Year. He is a member of the

  • Lab keeps fuel, oxygen flowing

    Some laboratory workers here provide a quality analysis of all fuels and gases used in the region. They also analyze fuel when a mishap or possible contamination occurs.In a war zone, both these functions are important missions. “The majority of the samples we receive are products that have been

  • Armor Airmen helping save lives

    Not many people can say their work saves lives everyday. But Airmen at “Big Bob's” Add-on Armor Shop can. The 49 Airmen of the 732nd Expeditionary Logistic Readiness Squadron’s shop strip down heavy equipment and tactical vehicles and rebuilding them stronger. The shop got its name from the Army

  • Weather flight spins up 'Santa's Mailbag' program

    Air Force volunteers are once again hosting Santa’s Mailbag, a free holiday program that lets children from around the world request and receive a letter from Santa Claus postmarked from North Pole, Alaska. Members of the 58th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron started the program more than 50 years