OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Nebraska, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Strategic Command issued the following news: By Staff Sgt. Whitney Erhart, 131st Bomb Wing Public Affairs DIEGO GARCIA, British Indian Ocean Territory - U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 110th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron completed a hot pit event with the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber during a Bomber Task Force mission, Aug. 21, 2024. Hot pitting is the act of having an aircraft land, refuel and take off without shutting its engines down.   more

OFFUTT AFB, Nebraska, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Air Force Offutt Air Force Base (55th Air Wing) issued the following news: By Capt. Barrett Schroeder, Air Combat Command JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. -- Air Combat Command received its first EA-37B Compass Call, aircraft 19-5591, for pilot training Aug. 23, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The EA-37B, a wide-area airborne electromagnetic attack weapon system using a heavily modified version of the Gulfstream G550 airframe, was delivered by  more

DAVIS-MONTHAN AFB, Arizona, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Air Force Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (355th Fighter Wing) issued the following news: By Capt. Barrett Schroeder, Air Combat Command JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. -- Air Combat Command received its first EA-37B Compass Call, aircraft 19-5591, for pilot training Aug. 23, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The EA-37B, a wide-area airborne electromagnetic attack weapon system using a heavily modified version of the Gulfstream G550 airframe  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Omaha District issued the following news release: RIVERDALE, N.D. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct vegetation management activities during August and September on sandbars in the Missouri River between Garrison Dam and Huff, N.D. The Bismarck-Mandan river reach (river miles 1325 to 1310) will not be sprayed. This work is being done to keep the sandbars free of vegetation and usable by the threatened piping plover for n  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Omaha District issued the following news release: YANKTON, S.D. -- During September, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct vegetation management activities on sandbars in the Missouri River between Yankton and Vermillion, S.D., the upper portion of Lewis and Clark Lake near Springfield S.D. and Niobrara, N.E., and as far upstream as Pickstown, S.D. This work is being done to keep the sandbars free of vegetation and usable by t  more