Sentences with phrase «air force one»

The Air Force is also facing administrative challenges — an ongoing pilot shortage, in particular.

«We are always looking at our policies and, when appropriate, adjusting them to ensure a broad scope of individuals are eligible to serve,» James Cody, outgoing Air Force chief master sergeant, said earlier this year.

The Air Force also provides close - air support, personnel recovery, airlift, and aerial refueling support in Afghanistan.

The Air Force has appointed Brig. Gen. Mike Koscheski to lead its aircrew crisis task force, formed earlier this year.

Each year 2,500 students from the sister service branches train at the Louis F. Garland Fire Academy, located at Goodfellow Air Force Base, in order to become certified Department of Defense firefighters.

With the reinvigorated effort, the Air Force — already facing its own strains — may also see expanded involvement in America's longest war.

Goldfein told Air Force Times that Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, commander of US Air Forces Central Command, and Maj. Gen. James Hecker, the top Air Force officer in Afghanistan, would request any additional resources, and, once they have them, «they'll be the ones that will be driving this new way of doing business.»

What that involvement will look like and require, however, remains uncertain, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein and Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told Reuters.

When Kennedy was assassinated, and Johnson sworn in from the cabin of Air Force One, he projected strength in a time of crisis.

Mueller is said to be delving into Trump's role in drafting the statement, and he is also interested in interviewing several key White House staffers who were with Trump on Air Force One when he initially dictated the statement in July.

The majority of these funds were spent on Air Force operations.

The US Air Force, struggling to retain pilots and fill undesirable positions, is considering paying up to $ 455,000 in annual bonuses, the branch's personnel chief, Lt. Gen. Gina Grosso, told the House Armed Services subcommittee for military personnel on Wednesday.

«The Air Force franchise has left a historic impression not only on sports culture, but it has been a hands - down pop - culture staple.

In addition to financial inducements for established pilots, the Air Force is looking for ways to broaden its intake.

Goldfein told Air Force Times.

The military has carried out numerous operations in Syria against ISIS and other targets, according to the Department of Defense, and members of the US Marines, Navy, Air Force, and Army are active in the country.

Grosso told the subcommittee that the whole service branch — including active Air Force, guard, and reserve — has 1,555 fewer pilots than it needs.

In 2016, Congress raised the limit on what the Air Force could pay pilots to remain in the service to $ 35,000 from $ 25,000, though that fell short of the Air Force's requested $ 48,000 limit.

Taking into account the $ 11 million cost for training a pilot to man a fifth - generation fighter, «a 1,200 fighter - pilot shortage amounts to a $ 12 billion capital loss for the United States Air Force,» Grosso said.

That optimization may mean changing the way ground troops, including those from the Air Force, work with aircraft providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, as well as with the personnel who analyze the information that is gathered.

When European aircraft maker Airbus scouted sites for its $ 600 million North American plant more than a decade ago it settled on a former Air Force base in Mobile.

Though victories against ISIS in Iraq and Syria may make more resources available for Afghanistan, Trump's change in policy comes as the Air Force grapples with a number of protracted operational commitments.

The Air Force is increasingly falling short of its quota of pilots.

He is chairman and CEO of Survival Inc., which makes flak jackets and chemical - warfare - survival kits for the U.S. Air Force, the Secret Service, and other deadly customers.

The U.S. Air Force announced new principles and reforms to its space programs Tuesday, largely to increase speed and defensive capabilities

Among them is the service's high operational tempo over the last three decades, enticements from private industry, and frustration with elements of Air Force life.

Video of the US Air Force testing the MOAB being tested in 2003 can be viewed below.

The first was General Tian Xiusi, a former political commissar of the People's Liberation Army Air Force and a member of the party's elite Central Committee.

At the annual Herzliya security conference near Tel Aviv, Major - General Amir Eshel said qualitative and quantitative improvements in the air force since the 2006 Lebanon war meant it could carry out in just two or three days the same number of bombings it mounted in those 34 days of fighting.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Monday evening that Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter planes found that Maria had strengthened into a storm with 160 mph (260 kph) winds.

A U.S. Air Force chaplain is under fire for saying that Christian people in the armed forces both «serve Satan» and are «grossly in error» if they support fellow service members who practice other faiths.

The Air Force gave him motivation.

Air Force Gen. John Hyten noted that Russia, China and North Korea each assert distinct threats at varying tempos.

While Air Force officials knew the UFO sightings were U-2 tests, they couldn't really tell the public.

Captain Sonny Hernandez, an Air Force Reserve Chaplain in Ohio, had published an article criticizing service members who serve the Constitution instead of Christ, among other shocking things.

On the other hand, such strikes, he said, also act as a deterrent to Hezbollah, whose missile capabilities could mean that the air force and the rest of the Israeli military will fight any future Lebanon war with their own bases under attack.

The picture of Pfc. William Snyder practicing «woodlawn stalking» was taken in early April during a 1 - 173 infantry training exercise at Eglin Air Force Base.

The Third Army, one of the military's most renowned fighting force, which was once based in the Atlanta, Georgia, area, relocated to Shaw Air Force Base inc Sumter back in 2012.

He thinks the application could also help the U.S. Air Force shave tens of millions of dollars a year from its fuel budget by computing more efficient schedules for in - air refueling.

That's because the Air Force had begun its testing of the U-2 aircraft.

Obama's increases would allow for next - generation F - 35 fighter jets, for ships and submarines and for long - range Air Force tankers.

I started as an Air Force pilot.

«The skies of the Middle East are a lot more crowded than before, with lots of players,» Eshel said, pointing to the need for the air force to operate «surgically» to avoid «mistakes».

The following play - by - play, documents the final moments of Capt. Haney, and comes from the U.S. Air Force Aircraft Investigation Report.

There is a magical place in Wales where the UK's Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots conduct low - level flight training - and you can grab your camera and watch them fly on by.

JERUSALEM (Reuters)- Israel would use all its strength from the start in any new war with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the chief of the Israeli air force said on Wednesday, sending a firm warning a decade after their last conflict.

Nobody was injured, and the passengers spent about five hours at the Air Force base before United was able to send a second airplane to taken them to Florida.

What struck me from his early story was that he took the first steps toward founding RE / MAX while still on active duty in the U.S. Air Force in the 1970s.

He jawboned Carrier into keeping jobs in the United States, threatened Boeing for the cost of Air Force One and Lockheed on its F - 35 aircraft, and pharmaceutical companies on their high drug prices.

It started with a United Airlines flight heading from Newark International Airport to Palm Beach, Florida, that had to divert to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Monday at 7:24 p.m.