“Air Force” on The Daily Caller

HAMPTON, Va. (AP) — Some of the nation’s 200 F-22 Raptor pilots want to be moved into other jobs because of oxygen-deficit problems with the stealth fighter, an Air Force leader said Monday. (more)

Montana Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg has been attempting to right a perceived wrong committed against 157 now-former Air Force officers involuntarily dismissed late last year. (more)

Two probes of the Afghan Air Force (AAF) conducted by the American-led military coalition and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration are currently underway, officials told the Wall Street Journal. (more)

The Chapman University of Military Law and the AMVETS Legal Clinic have notified the U.S. Air Force of their intent to sue over what they say was an illegal termination of 157 Air Force majors. (more)

The Chapman University of Military Law and its associated AMVETS Legal Clinic are blowing the whistle on what they say is an injustice set to be perpetrated on 157 Air Force majors on the last day of November. (more)

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The public affairs office at an Air Force base near Tucson says no shots have been fired and no one has been hurt, but traffic into and out of the base is limited because of an unspecified security situation. (more)

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — An Air Force base near Tucson was on lockdown Friday afternoon amid unconfirmed reports of gunfire. (more)

The Pentagon has worried for months that a project backed by a prominent Democratic donor might interfere with military GPS. Now Congress wants to know if the White House pressured a general to change his testimony. (more)

Are you a spy? If you have a family member in the Air Force and have seen any of the material released by WikiLeaks, USAF lawyers are saying you may be in violation of the Espionage Act. (more)

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Heather Sommerdyke spent $12,000 on two liposuction surgeries last spring. She was running eight to 10 miles, six days a week. She even switched to a starvation diet. It was all part of a last-ditch effort to trim her waistline to the 35.5-inch maximum for female airmen. She gave birth to her second child two years ago, and her midsection never quite recovered. (more)

Activist group Judicial Watch is appealing a decision by the Air Force to withhold documents related to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s use of military airplanes. (more)

The Senate should reject any stand-alone amendment overturning the 1996 congressional law preventing gays from serving in the military. Why? (more)

The Air Force is barring its personnel from using work computers to view the Web sites of The New York Times and more than 25 other news organizations and blogs that have posted secret cables obtained by WikiLeaks, Air Force officials said Tuesday. (more)

My apologies for combining a common phrase from Presidents Obama and Nixon. You rarely see that done, for good reason. (more)

The X-37B robotic spacecraft, which resembles a miniature version of the space shuttle, touched down at Vandenberg Air Force Base early Friday morning, marking the first time an American unmanned vehicle returned from orbit to land on its own. (more)

A Los Angeles woman, traveling by air the day before Thanksgiving, did not want radiation from an airport full-body scanner; she also did not want TSA goons to grope her. So she wore a revealing bikini and avoided both radiation and groping. The Obama White House is not nearly so clever.  China groped the missile defenses of our homeland and President Obama said and did nothing. No one noticed. Well, almost no one. (more)

One headache President Obama has not had to deal with is anti-draft demonstrations. (more)

While their protectors face danger in the field of battle, many Americans go about their everyday lives oblivious to the hard work and sacrifice of American troops and their families. (more)

The first BCS standings are out and Boise State is already chasing a couple of teams from the power conferences. (more)

Replacing the aging fleet of aerial refueling tankers has been an Air Force priority since 2002.  That year, Congress approved funding for Boeing to lease up to one-hundred 767s to replace the 50-year-old KC-135 tankers.  However, the deal fell apart in the wake of a 2004 bribery scandal that resulted in the convictions of a top Pentagon procurement officer and a senior Boeing official. (more)