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The Drive
March 28, 2018
“The Afghan pilots have learned their trade during combat and our advisors have expanded their skills in a deliberate step by step approach,” U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Phillip Stewart, the American officer commander in charge of NATO's Train Advise, Assist Command-Air (TAAC-A), said in aÃâà...
Business Insider
March 28, 2018
The service has already paid to replace the wings on 173 of its A-10s, but Boeing, which originally built the wings, has since shut down production, and the Air Force didn't have funding for new wings for the remainder — 40 of which would have to be grounded by 2021, according to CNN. Those aircraft are still flying withÃâà...
AirForceTimes.com
March 28, 2018
... crash in western Iraq, was posthumously awarded the Meritorious Service Medal and the Air Force Commendation Medal during a memorial service ... 21 memorial service at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia was attended by more than 1,000 airmen, family and friends, Air Combat Command said in aÃâà...
The Drive
March 26, 2018
“At a time when federal research funding may be uncertain we want the United States Air Force to be the sponsor of choice for research scientists.” ..... fight the enemy in their airspace if you want to make air superiority work,” U.S. Air Force General Mike Holmes, head of the service's Air Combat Command,Ãâà...
Daily Press
March 17, 2018
Col. Jason Hinds, who commands the 1st Fighter Wing, said the presence of experienced Virginia National Guard pilots is invaluable. “With them being here, we don't have a shortage at all,” he said. Hinds also credits the Air Force at large and Langley-based Air Combat Command with being committed toÃâà...
Arizona Daily Star
March 11, 2018
U.S. Air Force Gen. Mike Holmes, Air Combat Command commander, Maj. Tyler Schultz and Capt. Samantha Harvey, 354th Fighter Squadron A-10C Thunderbolt II fighter pilots, and Chief Master Sgt. Frank Batten III, Air Combat Command command chief pose for a picture at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base,Ãâà...
Airforce Technology
March 7, 2018
US-based security solutions and services provider Telos has secured a new $108m contract to provide planning, infrastructure systems, networks operations, and support for the US Air Force's (USAF) Air Combat Command (ACC). Under the terms of the deal, Telos will be responsible for carrying outÃâà...
AVweb
March 7, 2018
The U.S. Air Force is losing its pilots to lucrative airline jobs, according to a report in this week's Air Force Times, and that's likely to continue if the military pilots don't get more flight time and upgraded airplanes. “We are seeing an Air Force that is back on its heels,” John Venable, a former F-16 pilot, told theÃâà...
Airforce Technology
March 7, 2018
US-based security solutions and services provider Telos has secured a new $108m contract to provide planning, infrastructure systems, networks operations, and support for the US Air Force's (USAF) Air Combat Command (ACC). Under the terms of the deal, Telos will be responsible for carrying outÃâà...
GovConWire
March 6, 2018
Telos has secured a potential five-year, $108 million task order under the U.S. Air Force's Network-Centric Solutions-2 contract vehicle to provide network operations, infrastructure systems, planning and related services for the Air Combat Command. The company said Monday it will work to help theÃâà...
AirForceTimes.com
March 5, 2018
Hawk Carlisle, former head of Air Combat Command. “It really does.” ... “Anything that's taking those airplanes away, where you can't see the power of the United States Air Force, that does concern me.” AMC stood ... Dave Goldfein has often warned, “Pilots who don't fly … will not stay with us.” But if thereÃâà...
Air Force Magazine
February 23, 2018
Mike Holmes, commander of Air Combat Command, speaks at the Air Force Association's Air Warfare Symposium on Feb. ... China, for example, seeks “domination in [their] region first, then the world,” Holmes pointed out, and on the way there China is modeling its own air force after the US Air Force.
DefenseNews.com
February 22, 2018
Instead of buying a new version of the JSTARS ground surveillance, command and control plane, the Air Force plans on investing in other assets like the E-3 Aircraft ... Sgt. Gregory Brook/U.S. Air Force) ... Mike Holmes, head of Air Combat Command, during a roundtable with reporters later the same day.
DefenseNews.com
February 21, 2018
Air Mobility Command recently completed an assessment about how to improve the survivability of aircraft in contested environments, Gen. ... Everhart told reporters that Air Force Global Strike Command and Air Combat Command, which oversee the service's bomber and strike assets, also participated inÃâà...
Air Force Link
February 20, 2018
An MQ-1 Predator sits on the flight line Dec. 8, 2016, at Creech Air Force Base, Nev. The Predator started as an RQ-1 in the late 1990s, providing only reconnaissance capabilities until the early 2000s, when it was equipped with two AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and designated as a multirole asset. (U.S. AirÃâà...
62nd Airlift Wing
December 31, 1999
13, 2018, near Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark. Team Little Rock hosted over 65 Airmen from six wings to train together and showcase tactical airlift. ... exercise challenged us to work across the C-130 community with assets from Pacific Air Forces, United States Air Forces in Europe, Air Combat Command,Ãâà...
Robins Rev Up
December 31, 1999
Senior Master Sgt. Travis Shaw, Headquarters Air Combat Command Surgeon General pararescue programs manager, talks to Airmen during a water confidence training class in Anderson Field House at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., March 6, ... (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Monica Roybal).
Air Force Link
December 31, 1999
SHEPPARD AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) -- The shortage of pilots in the Air Force has been well documented, but the United States isn't the only ... The colonel said U.S. pilots received air combat maneuvering training in their follow-on aircraft, which would be the F-15C Eagle or the F-22 Raptor.
Arizona Daily Star
December 31, 1999
U.S. Air Force Gen. Mike Holmes, Air Combat Command commander, left; Maj. Tyler Schultz and Capt. Samantha Harvey, 354th Fighter Squadron A-10C Thunderbolt II fighter pilots; and Chief Master Sgt. Frank Batten III, Air Combat Command command chief. Schultz and Harvey received the DistinguishedÃâà...
SpaceNews
December 31, 1999
That presumption has put Air Force Space Command in the spotlight. “We are at the war fighter table. We are not in the cheap seats anymore,” said Maj. Gen. Joseph Guastella Jr., director of integrated air, space, cyberspace and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations at Air Force SpaceÃâà...
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