|
|
Kadena Completes Successful Deployment Test
Kadena Completes Successful Deployment Test: Most of the more than 100 airmen from the 18th Wing at Kadena Air Base, Japan, who had gone to Andersen AFB, Guam, on Aug. 31 in a test of the wing’s deployment capabilities returned home Sept. 8. During those eight days, tankers from Kadena's 909th Air Refueling Squadron and F-15s from its 67th Fighter Squadron trained alongside F-22s and B-52s deployed from stateside units to Andersen. “We don't do this often, but it's a good workout and it's a testament to the operations group and the 18th Wing's ability to organically operate and be successful in this environment,” said Capt. Tom Hunt, 67th FS project officer. The wing’s contingent overall was more efficient this time around compared to a similar test in 2006, flying the same number of sorties per aircraft despite with a smaller footprint. (Andersen report by TSgt. Mike Tateishi)
9/11/2009
|
Verbatim
Preemptive Action
"Since the [Defense] Department's acceptance of the independent estimates last fall, we've been, in just about every respect, acting as if the program were in a Nunn-McCurdy breach. ... We've been taking all of the mitigating and corrective action that we would take as if there were a Nunn-McCurdy breach."
—Air Force Secretary Michael Donley, discussing with reporters the restructure of the F-35 strike fighter program announced in February 2010 and the probability that the program will soon exceed Nunn-McCurdy cost-monitoring thresholds that would necessitate, per US law, a program review and corrective steps, Washington, D.C., March 2, 2010. |
|
Verbatim
Message for Grandma
"She has working for her as a citizen in the United States an Air Force Reserve that has some very talented, capable, patriotic, and willing individuals doing the business to keep this nation free. Just like her generation—the 'Greatest Generation'—was, I am very proud of the folks that we have got. If not the second greatest, then they are an extension of the greatest generation and they are ready, willing, and able to do the things that she would want them to do to make sure we keep our freedoms."
—Lt. Gen. Charles Stenner, Air Force Reserve chief, responding to a reporter's question on what the reporter should tell his 85-year-old grandmother to convey to her the importance of Air Force Reservists to the nation's security, Orlando, Fla., Feb. 19, 2010.
|
|
|