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First AFRICOM air chief looks to future
Published on Monday, July 12, 2010 by Angel RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — Maj. Gen. Ronald Ladnier faced a gargantuan task after he left his command at U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Detachment 5: Stand up a numbered Air Force and the air component for U.S. Africa Command from scratch.... Read More » -
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Soldiers become first to receive German honor
Published on Friday, April 30, 2010 by Angel Fourteen members of the Army’s 12th Combat Aviation Brigade on Thursday became the first non-Germans to receive Germany’s Gold Cross, one of that nation’s highest honors for valor.... Read More » -
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Astronauts, famed pilots salute troops
Published on Sunday, March 14, 2010 by Angel RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — The men who were the first and the last to walk on the moon, the astronaut who immortalized the words “Houston, we’ve had a problem,” the only Air Force flying “ace” in the Vietnam War and the test pilot who took the Blackbird on its maiden flight — all together, all mugging for the camera with tro... Read More » -
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Army, Guard athletes aim for bobsled glory
Published on Saturday, February 27, 2010 by Angel WHISTLER, British Columbia — At the very least, there was strength in numbers for the U.S. military in the four-man bobsled at the Vancouver Olympics on Friday. At the most? A gold medal on the horizon for Team USA. Four athletes with ties to the Army and National Guard return to Whistler Sliding Center on Saturday for the final two rounds of the four-man bobsle... Read More » -
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Air Force cutting its fighter fleet
Published on Sunday, February 14, 2010 by Angel By fall, 250 fighters will be in the boneyard and the 4,000 airmen who fly or fix them will have new jobs, according to an officer overseeing the aircraft drawdown.The first planes head for retirement April 1; if all goes as planned, the last ones will be off the flight line by Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year.“Units have already started to put people on... Read More » -
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AF hands out awards to 16 units
Published on Monday, January 25, 2010 by Angel Sixteen units have been honored with 2008-09 Air Force Unit Awards. The winners are as follows:Gallant Unit Citation— 720th Special Tactics Group, Hurlburt Field, Fla. for the period of Jan. 1, 2006, to Dec. 31, 2007.Meritorious Unit Award— 4th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Group from Jan. 18 to Dec. 13, 2006.Air Force Outstanding Unit Award With Va... Read More » -
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AFCent commander: Short tours best
Published on Sunday, December 27, 2009 by Angel The commander overseeing the Air Force’s role in Iraq and Afghanistan favors short tours in the war zones, despite a call by the Pentagon for yearlong deployments for instructors, and envisions airmen someday being stationed in the Persian Gulf with their families if host nations agree.Lt. Gen. Mike Hostage touched on the length of deployments and the Air Force&... Read More » -
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Mentors hired, fired in discreet fashion
Published on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 by Angel The Pentagon’s Joint Forces Command fired a former top U.S. commander in Iraq from his role as paid adviser to the military after he publicly criticized the Bush administration’s conduct of the Iraq war, according to interviews with command officials and e-mails.Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who led U.S. forces in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004, became a sen... Read More » -
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Leg lost, but not his will to be a firefighte...
Published on Saturday, December 5, 2009 by Angel BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Tech. Sgt. Mike Gambill has 19 years with the Air Force as a firefighter. He wants to make it 20.Whether the Air Force lets Gambill mark two decades of service, though, depends on whether he can still do the job after losing his left leg in a motorcycle crash.But the 40-year-old husband and father of three has a new artificial limb — ... Read More » -
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Marines to be first wave in Afghanistan plan
Published on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 by Angel WASHINGTON — New infusions of Marines will begin moving into Afghanistan almost as soon as President Barack Obama announces a redrawn battle strategy, a plan widely expected to include more than 30,000 additional U.S. forces.Obama will try to sell a skeptical public on his bigger, costlier war plan Tuesday by coupling the large new troop infusion with an emphasi... Read More »