• Airmen aid coalition ground forces one leaflet at a time

    American Airman and the Australian Defence Force recently teamed up to deliver critical information to Iraqi civilians in southern Iraq. A Dyess C-130 Hercules, working in conjunction with Australians from Overwatch Battle Group (West)-4, conducted two one-day missions to drop 330,000 leaflets

  • B-1B destroys al-Qaida torture compound in Iraq

    A B-1B Lancer aircrew destroyed an al-Qaida torture compound and prison with six guided bomb unit-38 Joint Direct Attack Munitions at 2:07 p.m. March 10 in Zenbaraniyah. The bombing marked a change of fortunes for the village, where local villagers began standing up to the terrorists a little more

  • March 6 airpower summary: C-130s support coalition forces

    Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations March 6, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, in order to deter enemy activities an Air Force A-10

  • Replace aging aircraft or risk irrelevancy, general says

    The commander of Air Force Materiel Command, which is responsible for delivering war-winning capabilities to the rest of the Air Force, said during a visit to Air University here that Air Force officials must develop and buy new aircraft or risk the service becoming irrelevant. The Air Force must be

  • Dyess C-130s help airborne operations return to Fort Hood

    "Stand Up!, Hook Up!," these were the words more than 20 personnel heard as they rushed to exit a perfectly good airplane on the first airborne operation conducted here in more than ten years, and the first such operation for a sustainment brigade. The 317th Airlift Group partnered with Fort Hood to