Representatives from the Air Force Cyber Command (Provisional), the ArkLaTex Chapter of the Air Force Electronics and Communications Association and the Cyber Innovation Center will hold the 2009 Air Force Cyberspace Symposium June 16 to 18 at the Shreveport Convention Center in Shreveport, La.
The theme of this year's symposium is "Collaboration in Cyberspace." Along with the existing Air Force and Department of Defense focus, the event will include exploration into how other governmental agencies approach cyberspace.
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More than a dozen F-15E Strike Eagles, two DC-10s and a C-17 Globemaster III met the rising sun over the Atlantic Ocean en route to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, April 29.
Approximately 350 deploying Airmen from the 336th Fighter Squadron and 4th Maintenance Group will spend the next four months providing close-air support for Operation Enduring Freedom, which began in October 2001 in response to the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The deployment comes at a time when things are literally heating up within the central Asian nation. As spring's temperatures thaw Afghanistan's frozen, mountainous landscape, insurgent operations increase.
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Beginning May 1, Airmen around the Air Force will begin celebrating Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month with events, speeches and various other activities at their bases.
Events will highlight the culture and achievements of Americans of Asian and Pacific Island descent.
Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month is celebrated with community festivals, government-sponsored activities and educational activities for students. This year's theme is "Lighting the Past, Present and Future.
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Approximately 1,400 U.S. and foreign military members are participating in Red Flag-Alaska 09-2. The amplified workforce calls for additional support to provide basic needs, and Airmen in the 354th Force Support Squadron have willingly answered the call.
"Red Flag-Alaska brings an increased number of military members to Eielson," said Andy Flores, 354th FSS general lodging manager, "but we've developed a system to accommodate the additional population on base."
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Defense Department officials are directing servicemembers and government civilians deployed in overseas war zones to refrain from taking aspirin unless under a doctor's orders, a senior military physician said here April 30.
"Aspirin use for reasons other than medical indications is discouraged," said Army Col. (Dr.) Tony Carter, director for operational medicine and medical force readiness under the deputy assistant secretary of defense for force health protection, a component of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.
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Six Airmen from Pacific Air Forces units arrived here Feb. 4 to cure the island's contaminated water supply ruined due to unusually high tides and have treated more than 1,840,000 gallons of water for residents here.
Unusual weather around the Pacific region caused six irregular high tides to flow across Roi-Namur and into the island water supply, said Greg Heffner, the water plant operator.
The island gets the majority of its water from lens wells that recover rain water that Mr. Heffner and his team treat daily.
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Over the Arizona desert near Tucson, nine student pilots took the "final exam" for a career most people only dream about in April. They are in the final stages of training to become F-16 Fighting Falcon pilots for the Air Force.
At the end of 7.5 months of intense F-16 Basic Course Training with the Texas Air National Guard's 149th Fighter Wing in San Antonio, the students participated in Exercise Coronet Cactus at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
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Pilots from the Wisconsin Air National Guard's 115th Fighter Wing in Madison, honed their air-to-air combat training skills along side their naval counterparts from the Strike Fighter Squadron 2 (VFA-2), Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif., during a two-week training mission here.
Air Guard pilots from the 176th Fighter Squadron put their F-16C Fighting Falcons to the test against FA-18F Super Hornets from the active-duty Navy squadron. The training missions featured air-to-air and air-to-ground offensive and defensive combat tactics designed to simulate real-world operations.
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Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan during operations April 29, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.
In Afghanistan, a coalition aircraft employed a guided bomb unit-12 to hit an enemy fighting position. The strike was carried out after Afghan National Army troops clearing a series of compounds started taking enemy small-arms fire from the area. The aircraft coordinated with ground force observers to confirm that the weapons fire was coming from the targeted location before bombing the position.
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Some thirty-five years ago, 2nd Lt. Norton Schwartz graduated Undergraduate Pilot Training, walking away from here with a set of silver wings and a promising career with unlimited potential.
On April 24th, now Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz came full circle, returning to Laughlin as the guest speaker at the wing's dining out.
This was the first time in Laughlin's history that a sitting Air Force chief of staff visited the base, according to Todd Schroeder, 47th Flying Training Wing historian. The visit not only was historic for the base, but nostalgic for the general, who said he was very pleased to accept the invitation to return his first duty station.
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