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0509World.Pdf Air Force World By Michael Sirak, Senior Editor, with Marc Schanz, Associate Editor Airman Killed in Afghanistan was the second involving the F-22. In SSgt. Phillip A. Myers, 30, an ex- December 2004, a Raptor went down plosive ordnance disposal technician at Nellis AFB, Nev., during the aircraft’s with the 48th Civil Engineer Squadron test and evaluation period. Its pilot screenshot at RAF Lakenheath, Britain, died April ejected safely. 4 in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan from wounds caused by Airman Receives Air Force Cross an improvised explosive device. SSgt. Zachary J. Rhyner, a com- A native of Hopewell, Va., Myers bat controller with the 21st Special had been serving with the 755th Air Tactics Squadron at Pope AFB, N.C., USAF photo by SSgt. James HarperL. Jr. Expeditionary Group in Kandahar. received the Air Force Cross March He was promoted posthumously to 10, joining an elite group of only 187 the rank of technical sergeant for his airmen—including 23 other enlisted accomplishments prior to his death. airmen—who have been awarded the Myers received a Bronze Star Medal service’s highest military decoration. in March 2008 for his actions during Air Force Secretary Michael B. a previous deployment to Iraq. RAF Donley presented Rhyner with the Lakenheath also selected Myers as medal during a ceremony at Pope in its outstanding civil engineer military recognition of Rhyner’s uncommon technician, presenting him the 2008 valor during a mission with a team Maj. Gen. Eugene A. Lupia Award. of US and Afghan special forces in Afghanistan’s Shok Valley on April Airman Killed By IED 6, 2008, that evolved into an intense SSgt. Timothy L. Bowles, 24, a fire 6.5-hour battle with insurgents. truck mechanic assigned to the 3rd Although shot three times and se- Logistics Readiness Squadron at El- riously wounded in his leg, Rhyner mendorf AFB, Alaska, was killed March called in more than 50 air strikes to 15 by an improvised explosive device prevent the team from being overrun near Jalalabad, Afghanistan. and provided suppressive fire to aid Bowles had been serving in Af- in the extraction of his colleagues. A ghanistan since November 2008 with senior airman at the time of the battle, the 755th Air Expeditionary Group’s Rhyner also received a Purple Heart Nangarhar Provincial Reconstruction during the ceremony from Air Force Team. The IED destroyed the vehicle Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz. that he was in. It was part of a four- vehicle patrol checking on a local Donley Stays On school. The White House announced Feb. Bowles was born in Anchorage, 26 that Air Force Secretary Michael B. Alaska, and grew up on Davis-Monthan Donley would remain in his current post AFB, Ariz., where his father was sta- as USAF’s top civilian official under tioned. the Obama Administration. In a press release that day, President Obama Test Pilot Dies in F-22 Crash characterized Donley as one of the Lockheed Martin test pilot David P. “distinguished individuals” staying on Cooley, 49, was killed in the March 25 from the Bush Administration who pos- crash of an F-22 Raptor fighter about sess “the commitment and expertise to 35 miles northeast of Edwards AFB, help guide the Department of Defense Calif., where the aircraft was assigned at this critical time for our nation.” for test purposes. Donley became Acting Secretary Cooley joined Lockheed Martin in in June 2008 after the departure of 2003, having retired as a lieutenant Michael W. Wynne. Donley was sworn colonel after 21 years in the Air Force. in officially as the 22nd Air Force He was working with the F-22 Combined Secretary last October. On the eve of Test Force at Edwards where USAF and the new Administration taking power, company pilots conduct Raptor testing. he expressed his willingness to keep The Air Force is conducting an serving until replaced or otherwise investigation into the crash, which asked to depart. 10 AIR FORCE Magazine / May 2009 Air Guard Gets New Leaders recently as commander of the 162nd Osprey Ready for Combat Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Moisio, an Ari- Fighter Wing, an F-16 pilot training unit Air Force Special Operations Com- zona Air Guardsman, became deputy at Tucson Arpt., Ariz. mand in early March cleared the CV-22 director of the Air National Guard on In another leadership move, CMSgt. tilt-rotor aircraft to conduct combat op- March 6. He filled the post left vacant in Christopher Muncy from the Ohio Air erations worldwide, if called upon. The June 2008 when now-Maj. Gen. Stanley National Guard was announced Feb. 23 platform, which replaces the now-retired E. Clarke III took on a new assignment as the Air Guard’s new command chief, MH-53 helicopter, is designed for long- on the Air Staff. succeeding CMSgt. Richard Smith, who is range infiltration, extraction, and resupply. Moisio, an Air Force Academy gradu- retiring after 37 years of service. Muncy, AFSOC spokesman Don Arias said ate, joined the Air Guard in 1984 after who served most recently as command March 16 that Hurlburt’s 8th Special serving as an A-7D and A-10 pilot in the chief of the Ohio ANG, joined the Air Operations Squadron had six CV-22s active duty Air Force. He served most Guard in 1979. at its disposal that were ready for The Air Force’s all-purpose pararescuemen—better known as “PJs”—bring a blend of warrior and paramedic to the battles unfolding in Southwest Asia. Here, two Air Force PJs are hoisted into an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter during a proficiency exercise carried 04.10.2009 out near Joint Base Balad in Iraq, north of Baghdad. Meanwhile, a gunner mans a ma- chine gun that would be used for covering fire in a real rescue. The airmen are assigned to the 64th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron in the US Central Command theater. AIR FORCE Magazine / May 2009 11 Air Force World USAF photo by Capt. Chett Collier operations. As a run-up to the initial the MV-22, has served in Iraq and is be- Load up: Airmen from AFRC’s 315th Air- operational capability milestone, AF- ing considered for duty in Afghanistan. lift Wing load one of two US Coast Guard SOC sent four CV-22s to Africa’s Trans- H-65 Dolphin search and rescue helicop- Saharan region in November 2008 to 2010 Defense Topline Grows Slightly ters onto a C-17 at Charleston AFB, S.C. participate in a multinational military President Obama released his Fiscal Both helicopters were headed to Central America for missions in that region. exercise called Operation Flintlock. 2010 base budget on Feb. 26, including The Air Force plans to buy 50 CV-22s. a $533.7 billion topline for the Depart- request represents a nearly four percent The Marine Corps version of the Osprey, ment of Defense. This defense topline increase over the $513 billion appropri- ated by Congress in Fiscal 2009. As of late March, the Administration More Lawmakers Support Split Buy of Tankers was expected to present the budget details to Congress in May. Testifying Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), chairman of the House Armed Ser- before the House Budget Committee vices Committee’s panel on air and land forces, joined a chorus of influential March 3, Office of Management and lawmakers calling for the Department of Defense to purchase new aerial Budget Director Peter R. Orszag of- tankers from both Boeing and Northrop Grumman for the Air Force’s KC-X fered some insights into the defense tanker recapitalization program. budget, saying it would provide for the “I think that a consensus is developing” in Congress for a split buy, Aber- increase in Army and Marine Corps crombie told reporters after speaking at a defense industry conference in end strength, give service members a Washington, D.C., March 11. 2.9 percent pay raise, improve military This strategy is juxtaposed against Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates’ housing, and provide better medical stated preference for taking another stab at a winner-take-all competition treatment for wounded troops. even though the KC-X effort faltered last year amid controversy after Northrop At the same time, Orszag said it Grumman’s KC-30 tanker was selected over Boeing’s KC-767. The belief is would set realistic requirements and that a split buy is the best means of ending the current stalemate between incorporate “best practices” to control the companies and their supporters in Congress. cost growth and schedule slippage of Abercrombie joined Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), head of the House Ap- weapons programs. propriations Committee’s defense subcommittee, in endorsing the split-buy strategy. Murtha said March 12 he was working to include billions of dollars US Downs Iranian UAV in Iraq in the next war supplemental to jump-start a split-buy tanker acquisition. A US fighter aircraft shot down an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle Feb. 12 AIR FORCE Magazine / May 2009 ment of Defense was allocated under C-130 Fleet Sidetracked by Faulty Barrel Nuts the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Air Force on March 4 issued a time compliance technical order calling This funding will enable more than for a fleetwide inspection of hundreds of older C-130 Hercules transports 1,500 maintenance and repair projects across the active duty, Air National Guard, and Air Force Reserve Command valued at $1.1 billion, said Air Force components. The inspections were ordered after discovery of cracks three Civil Engineer Maj. Gen. Del Eulberg. days earlier in the upper-wing joint barrel nuts of a Hercules undergoing There will also be $260 million for Air routine depot maintenance at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Ga.
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