Monthly Archives: May 2009

Air Force officials want more airmen turning wrenches and loading missiles onto large unmanned aerial vehicles flying over Iraq and Afghanistan.

Third time’s the charm. Or is it always?

The Air Force is molding its combat forces into what Secretary Michael Donley describes as “a smaller, more flexible and lethal bridge” to the F-35 Lightning II by slashing 10 percent of its legacy fighters and reassigning the 4,000 airmen … Continue reading →

A civilian deputy group commander from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., died in Iraq on May 25 while deployed there as a Navy reservist, according to the Defense Department.

Paul W. Airey mentored scores of enlisted airmen during his years as the first chief master sergeant of the Air Force. Those airmen turned out at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday morning to pay their final respects to their former … Continue reading →

SAN ANTONIO — An Air Force nurse charged with murder said he wanted to make a terminally ill man comfortable as he tinkered with his medication just moments after another nurse went on break, one of the patient’s relatives testified … Continue reading →

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — Closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay would purge the U.S. of a symbol used by enemies to divide the nation, the head of the U.S. Central Command said Friday.

Any discussions on repealing the military’s ban on open service by homosexuals must proceed in a “measured and deliberate way” that does not increase stress on a force stretched by two ongoing wars, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs said … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON — The United States could fight an old-fashioned war against North Korea if necessary, even while newer forms of conflict against terrorists and extremists continue, the Army’s top officer said Thursday.