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  • New Optical Gear the Way of the Future

    A high power, gyro-stabilized set of binoculars with a laser spot tracker inside may be the newest way to help aircraft and ground forces find the same target. The Stabilized Portable Optical Target Tracking Receiver or SPOTTR is used by airmen on the ground to assist fighter and bomber pilots find

  • Andersen prepares for Valient Shield

    Air Force bombers, fighters, tankers and support aircraft from the Pacific theater are arriving and making preparations to participate in Valiant Shield 2006. The U.S. Pacific Command exercise, which begins June 19 and lasts through June 23, will be conducted in the vicinity of Guam. Valiant Shield

  • Hickam honors WWII veterans with new C-17

    The delivery of the 7th of eight C-17 Globemaster IIIs here today brought 15th Airlift Wing and Pacific Air Forces Airmen together with World War II veterans. The aircraft is christened The Spirit of “Go For Broke,” which is a tribute to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The 442nd fought fiercely in

  • Tanker Task Force Keeps Northern Edge Flying

    If drivers could fill up the car with gas without stopping, imagine how efficient driving would be. The monstrous Tanker Task Force (TTF) here provides efficient service to drivers in the air during Northern Edge, Alaska’s premier joint training exercise. Seventeen tankers and 12 total force units

  • Hawaii Airmen to deliver health care to Fiji

    Pacific Air Forces and 15th Medical Group Airmen left here on a health care mission to Suva, Fiji this morning. The team will train selected Fijian military leaders and participate in a humanitarian outreach program. “We’re going to be working with the Fiji Ministry of Health and Fiji School of

  • Arctic Warrior becomes Thunderbird

    When a six year-old little girl decided she wanted to become an Air Force pilot when she grew up, little did she realize that not only would her dreams come true, but she would also be chosen to fly for one of the world’s premier aircraft demonstration teams. Fast forward 24 years to the present day

  • Northern Edge aims for air, sea dominance

    “Our end result (of Northern Edge 2006) is to establish complete dominance in the air and at sea,” said Col. John Marselus, chief of the Joint Exercise Division, or JED, for U.S. Alaskan Command. The focus of the annual joint-service exercise is to prepare joint forces to respond to crises in the

  • Virtual 'heavies' key to Northern Edge simulations

    The days of deploying an E-3 Sentry and other command and control aircraft to military exercises may soon be a rarity. With a large crew and an aging airframe, airborne warning and control systems, or AWACS, are expensive to deploy for a two-week training opportunity. But thanks to powerful computer

  • Icemen save six mushers, 89 dogs from snowstorm

    As Sammy sat atop Eagle Summit in February, stranded due to a snowstorm centered on that leg of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, he may have wondered to himself, “How did I get myself into this mess, and more importantly, how am I going to get myself out?” Luckily, Iceman Team members