By Bryant Jordan Feb 09, 2016 The Air Force on Tuesday released a 2017 budget geared to rebalance the force and counter readiness problems resulting from years of deployments, personnel shortages and sequester-forced spending caps that have cut into modernization programs across the board. At $167 billion, the service’s budget is roughly $5 billion more […]
By Bruce S. Post FEB. 1, 2016 The passionate disagreements about the F-35 and industrial wind share a commonality: the meaning of home. “Home is the place,” wrote Robert Frost, “where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Home and hearth are rooted in our soul, private places of respite […]
By Marina Malenic February 11, 2016 Key Points F-35s have accumulated more than 50,000 flight hours The 25,000 flight-hour milestone occurred in December 2014, and that number doubled in just more than one year Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters operating at 12 international locations have accumulated more than 50,000 flight hours, the […]
By Blake Stilwell Feb. 11, 2016 Normally, James Martin is the very model of a modern major general. But the Air Force officer, who is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget, recently collapsed at the podium while answering questions about the F-35. Air Force Deputy for Budget Carolyn Gleason held Maj. Gen. Martin up, while aides came to […]
by Bryan Myers & Sheila MacVicar February 2, 2016 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The bad news for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter – the most expensive weapons program in history, with an estimated price tag of $1.4 trillion – continues to pile up. In a stark new assessment, a Pentagon report documents significant and on-going problems […]
By CLYDE HABERMAN JAN. 24, 2016 One of the earliest stealth weapons on record was a stone used by the young Israelite David to kill the Philistine giant Goliath. In the biblical account, David shunned the conventional armaments of his time: sword, helmet, armor. Instead, he went forth with a slingshot and a few stones, […]
“We are among “those that live by the airport.” However, we have never complained about the noise, until this past summer (and only to each other). We’ve lived here 15 years, love the area and being close to everything. We moved in from Meridian after 17 years of the sprawl out there. Our home was […]
By Bud Foster Jan 26, 2016 TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -Three residents who live in midtown Tucson in the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base flight path have filed a suit against the U.S. Air Force. The suit, filed by the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Intereston behalf of Gary Hunter, Anita Scales and Rita […]
By Caitlin Schmidt January 23, 2016 Three residents of neighborhoods near Davis-Monthan Air Force Base have filed for an injunction in federal court, seeking to require the Air Force to conduct a more detailed analysis of how increased training flights from the base will affect the community. Rita Ornelas, Gary Hunter and Anita Scales filed […]
BY SVEN BERG DECEMBER 23, 2015 Some Boiseans believe the deciders have made up their minds to bring louder military jets to Boise. Many of these people live near the airport, so they’d be most affected by the noise. They suspect their concerns don’t matter to the city government, Idaho Air National Guard and U.S. […]