B-1Bs Are Getting Much-Needed ECM Updates
Northrop Grumman and the USAF have signed a contract to update the aging defensive countermeasures system giving B-1Bs new eyes in the backs of their heads.
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In the Philippine Elections US Visiting Forces Agreement Will Be A Major Issue
Election Frontrunners Support the Visiting Forces Agreement Last January 22, 2022, veteran Philippine journalist Jessica Soho interviewed the leading presidential candidates as the May 2022 Philippine Presidential Elections drew nearer. One of the hotly contested topics asked was about the presidentiables’ stances on the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA). The military pact was threatened to be […]
Qatari Fighter Jets Over Idaho?
Folks in Idaho will be seeing F-15Q fighters with Qatari air force markings and no, they are not lost.
Terms Only Those Who Served in The Air Force Will Understand
The Air Force, like the other military branches, developed their own language and culture throughout the years. Here are some of them.
Will The Air Force’s New Approach To Physical Fitness Work?
The Air Force will be implementing a fresh approach to physical fitness by letting Airmen choose their own PT test. Will it work?
Federal Injunction Claims Navy Process For Handling Religious Waivers Is A Farce
A federal judge in Texas has just stopped the COVID vaccine mandate in its tracks when it comes to punishing service members for requesting religious waivers against taking the vaccination. The judge charges in the injunction that the Navy system used to process religious waivers is a farce with rejection already predetermined.
Larry’s Lawn Chair Launch
“So many people have dreams and they never follow through on them.” so Lawn Chair Larry followed his dream and flew with his weather balloons.
Israeli Airstrike on Port in Syria Causes “Massive Damage”
An Israeli airstrike in the Syrian port of Latakia during the early hours of Tuesday morning hit the port’s container facility in the second attack on the port this month. “At around 3:21 am [0121 GMT], the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial aggression with several missiles from the direction of the Mediterranean … targeting […]
Report: Israeli Airstrikes Targeted Syrian Chemical Weapons Facilities
Israel has been bombing targets in Syria for decades that it perceives as a threat to its own security. Most famously, their 2007 raid that destroyed a North Korean-built nuclear reactor in Deir al-Zour province. A story in the Washington Post now claims that Israeli aircraft have made repeated strikes on chemical weapons productions and storage facilities within Syria.
French Troops Kill ISIS Suspect for the 2020 Murders of French Aid Workers in Niger
The Takuba Special Operations Task Force, comprised of French Special Operations troops has killed a key leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) for his part in the murders of six civilian aid workers and two guides in Niger in 2020.
Remembering Tech SGT Forrest L. Vosler, MOH, Dec. 20, 1943
The air war over Europe was a bloody affair for Allied pilots flying bombing missions over occupied Europe and Germany. Large bomber formations were savaged by flak and/or German fighters. Losses were so heavy that any crew that survived 25 missions were sent home. Few did. Things would soon change, however, as the P-51 Mustang […]
Where Am I? And Other Questions Old Vets Ask Ourselves
Brian Hudson gives a funny take on how deploying to so many bases and so many places make it hard to remember sometimes where you actually are settled in finally.
