Bob McCarty Writes

J.T., a family friend who’s serving in the U.S. Air Force at Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan, shot this photo of a British soldier silhouetted against the setting sun.  It’s probably one of the most peaceful photos one might see from that part of the world.

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Following the May 7 roll-out of the fiscal year 2010 budget proposal for the Department of Defense, Air Force officials announced in a news release today plans to retire legacy fighters to fund a smaller and more capable force and redistribute people for higher priority missions.
The Combat Air Forces restructuring plan would accelerate the retirement [...]

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In an American Thinker opinion piece today, Cliff Thier expresses grave concern about the future of Israel and worries that President Barack Obama will use U.S. Air Force assets to prevent Israeli forces from taking out Iran’s nuclear weapons capability.  Among other things, he writes:
Israel knows it must do take out the nuclear weapons capability [...]

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When I served as an Air Force public affairs officer years ago, I had the privilege of working with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds on several crowd-pleasing occasions.  Therefore, when I saw the team — formally known as the “U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron” — had released the schedule for its 56th season, I [...]

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It’s not often that this blogger agrees with labor union officials, but today I find myself in agreement with the International Association of Machinists on the matter of the Pentagon’s questionable awarding of a contract to to Northrop Grumman/EADS Airbus for delivery of the Air Force’s next-generation aerial refueling aircraft.
Below is the text of an [...]

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