Exile in Portales

And now airmen can get a medal for sitting in a hole... Criteria for New Medal Announced The Air Force last week announced the criter...

Yet another brick in the wall we call "Not Your Father's Air Force:" That's a screen shot of a blurb in AFA's Da...

From the Usual USAF Source... SrA. Shabree N. Heasell, a geospatial intelligence analyst with the 603rd Air and Space Operations Center...

Back in my day lieutenants looked like this: The take-away was you didn't know whether to salute 'em or get 'em a binky.  ...

A few bits from the AFA's Daily Report beginning with... O, my aching ass: Hey Spike, It's Friday ! ...

Better: From the notes accompanying the vid at The Tube o' You: Published on Dec 5, 2013 ...

From the Usual USAF Source ... Air Frame: Seven C-17 Globemaster IIIs, 11 KC-10 Extenders, and four C-5B Galaxies from the 60th Air M...

From the Usual USAF Source: X-51A Sets Air-Breathing Hypersonic Record :  The fourth and final mission of an X-51A Waverider test vehi...

This is pretty unusual: Col. Bush (right) Grand Forks Commander Relieved Due to Waistline: Air Mobility Command this week relieved...

I recently posted about the reversal of a USAF Lt. Colonel's court-martial conviction for sexual misconduct.  Well, guess what? Ge...

It's pretty easy to go all "Get Off My Lawn" over this... Pentagon Defends Precedence of New Medal: Pentagon officials ...

Which is actually a follow-up to NYFAF XIX: The Russians are Coming, Almost: US and Russian officials continue to hash out the details...

But it's a great place to work... Lucky Thirteen: Airmen voted the Air Force the 13th best place to work in 2012 among the federal ...

Mebbe not YOUR father's, but most certainly mine.  Here's a gallery of custom WW II USAAF A-2 jackets ... and there are some beauts...

From the Usual USAF Source and a Cannon Airplane Patch press release... Suite Digs at Cannon: The 27th Special Operations Wing bro...

(Sigh)  I have a classic case o' The Blahs today and don't feel like doin' much o' anythang, which includes writing a new an...

I came across this last night, via a USAF tweet... Another view... I was gonna post this without comment, but...  A ceremon...

From the Usual USAF Source : Members from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., and Russian Federation air force personnel pose for a group ...

From the Usual USAF Source ... Panetta Honors LGBT Service Members: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta released a video message thanking lesb...

From the Usual USAF Source ... Air Force Gets First Female Fighter Wing Commander: Col. Jeannie Leavitt last week took her place in histor...