Afghan War Blog

In my travels through Afghanistan I frequently came across a number of Air Force personnel wearing the "JET/IA" shoulder patch...

If you are an F-16 Falcon pilot experiencing an emergency during a take off or landing at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan - how do you stop f...

Should We Unleash America's Airpower in Afghanistan?  David Petraeus (former ISAF commander and CIA Director) and Michael O'Hanlon...

C-130J in Afghanistan ( Photo by AFCENT Oct 2013) A U.S. Air Force C-130J cargo plane crashed on very early on Friday morning in Jalala...

The A-10 Treason Bird Patch is now available for U.S. Air Force officers who wish to kiss their careers goodbye. The patch is now auth...

Everyone knows that the  A-10 retirement  is a bad thing for ground troops but a good thing for helping the United States Air Force fund its...

Two Air Expeditionary Wings will operate in Afghanistan as part of Operation Freedom's Sentinel . The 438th AEW will be based in the ...

Afghan interpreters are a key part of the Coalition's success in Afghanistan. It is difficult to conduct combat operations, civil affai...

The news just doesn't get any better for the use of the new J-35 as a close support aircraft for ground troops. The Air Force would lik...

Senator McCain, the incoming Armed Services Committee chairman, says that the A-10 will be around for a little while longer. Certainly this ...

Congress is fighting hard to save the highly valued (by ground troops if not the Air Force) A-10 Warthog. This close air support aircraft ...

The United States Air Force has a troubling past with the C-27 aircraft . The U.S. Army needed a good, dependable tactical aircraft to tra...

The United States Air Force is getting rid of its MC-12W Liberty aircraft . These unique aircraft were extremely useful in providing intel...

The 18th Air Force has begun using C-5M Super Galaxies to move equipment out of Afghanistan. Most of the retrograde has been completed us...

Next to the Security Force Assistance (SFA) mission in Afghanistan the next biggest mission is retrograde. Getting personnel and equipment h...

The air war in Afghanistan has been heating up. More airstrikes were conducted during the month of August than in any single month in the ...

The last AWACS E-3A stationed at Mazar-e-Sharif departed on September 23, 2014 for its home station. NATO has stationed E-3As in northern ...

Photo by SSG Evelyn Chavez 455th Expeditionary Wing There are all sorts of aircraft flying overhead in Afghanistan. Some are small and ...

The MC-12 W Liberty aircraft has been providing a find, fix, and finish capability to ISAF since December 2009 in Afghanistan. The MC-12 a...

U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircrews are working around the clock to support Operation Enduring Freedom retrograde operation s, ai...