USAF going MultiCam too.

More than 180 joint expeditionary tasking airmen assigned to provincial reconstruction teams in Afghanistan are now wearing the Air Force's new Operation Enduring Freedom Camouflage Pattern, or OCP, uniform, as their everyday uniform during their deployments, announced service officials, July 7, 2011. These are the first Air Force personnel to don it. The uniform, shown here, has a more advanced camouflage pattern, lighter weight flame-resistant material, and pre-applied bug repellant. Air Force photo by SrA. Sandra Welch

About time.  That Airman Battle Uniform was hideous and ineffective.  Via Air Force Magazine.

Active Shooter practice in a war zone.

No knock on the USAF on this one.  They might need a pat on the back...but it still mystifies me how in an active war zone, there can be areas where you can have a weapon but no magazine in it.  At least they're taking action to deal with the issue if it comes up again.  via Air Force Magazine.

Kandahar Holds Live-Fire Drills to Deal with On-base Shooters: Airmen with the 443rd Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, recently conducted the first live-fire training to teach unit members how to respond to a shooter on base. NATO Training Command-Afghanistan initiated this training in response to the tragic shooting at Kabul International Airport in April that cost the lives of eight US airmen and one US contractor at the hands of an irate Afghan air force officer. The three days of instruction were meant to help improve adviser reaction to such a scenario with activities like rapid-fire drills, quick-fire reaction drills, and seated reaction drills. MSgt. Terry Gilbert of Kandahar's 738th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group, said future plans include incorporating "some building clearing techniques, assault maneuvers, and more advanced weapons handling." (Kabul report by Capt. Jamie Humphries)

F-22's still grounded.

From ASD News.

WASHINGTON - The US Air Force has grounded its entire fleet of F-22 fighters, the most sophisticated combat aircraft in the world, after problems emerged with the plane's oxygen supply, officials said Friday.

The radar-evading F-22 Raptors have been barred from flying since May 3 and Air Force officials could not say when the planes would return to the air.

Wow.

Bad news for the F-22 program.  Worse news for the USAF.

I know that the problem will be solved but while they're doing it I hope they go back and take another look at the F-22 crashes...particularly the one involving the Lockheed Test Pilot that they blamed a loss on.  I think it was ruled partial G-Loc.  If nothing else his record needs to be cleared and these planes fixed and put back into service.

Hey Air Force. The debate is over. Buy AT-6's.

Yeah its pure propaganda.

Yeah its tugging at my protectionist, isolationist, America first heart strings.

Yeah its politically incorrect.

So what.

We protect the world, time to protect our manufacturing base.  USAF.  Buy American.

MC-130J Combat Shadow II