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EERY ERE I HIS OY CONTENT CATEGORIES OUSE ITH PAIE THROS SEARHI FOR HIS TO H New systems, technologies, and hardware requirements ISSI ES A ISSI RIHT AR H Air Force combat and peacetime operations H Adversary advances and posture Devastation and Inspiration  ere was no way Kolfage would let “giant voice”—those sirens installed “Oh shit oh shit.” Security forces airman Brian Kolfage Cortez go back to Iraq without him. He all over Iraq and Afghanistan in the Sight returned. “Is my hand blown survived injuries di† icult to comprehend. looked for someone he could scare into following years that gave troops a four- o ? Oh shit oh shit I am hurt bad.” switching, to convince that Iraq was to eight-second head start to run for a Kolfage opened his lungs and yelled H By Tara Copp too dangerous, so that he could take bunker and escape incoming re. for help. He tried to move but Cortez Acqusition policy and organization his spot and be with Cortez. He found This was 2004, and Balad wasn’t and nearby soldiers were already on y rst journey into Iraq started with a sandy convoy, four airmen a new kid, a soon-to-be dad. Kolfage expecting the 107 mm rocket shell that him, they stu ed muscled hands and from Texas, and a Humvee named “Linebacker 10.” growled: You might lose your legs. He exploded ve feet from Linebacker 10’s forearms and towels into Kolfage’s low- It was March 26, 2003.  e four guys were from the Air Force’s 17th scared the guy into staying back, and baby-faced airman. er bleeding half to try and save his life. Security Forces Squadron at Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Kolfage got his place next to Cortez.  e blast  attened Kolfage to the Kolfage looked at Cortez crazy with MTexas: A1C Valentine Cortez, 21; SSgt. Chad Wurm, 28; SrA. Daniel Holmes, 22; Cortez and Kolfage were only on sand. His eyes were stuck open but he blood on him. He pushed against his and A1C Brian Kolfage, 19. their rst weeks at Balad, but they al- only saw darkness as his body and hair battle buddy and yelled for Cortez to let H I was a 28-year-old embedded reporter along for the ride; I had no prior military ready had a system. Night shift. Sleep. disappeared into a cloud of sand and him see his legs. Cortez put his bloody Intelligence, Surveillance, Ronnaissance systems, trends, and concepts experience whatsoever. In my multiple trips to Iraq since, none of the experiences Gym. Eat. Repeat. smoke. Each of his senses knocked to hand over Kolfage’s eyes to protect him or people I’ve met or reported on have made as deep of an impact as those four “We did everything together,” Cortez black. from deadly shock. airmen made on my rst ride in. But in 2003, as the weeks wore on, I was called said. “I’m dreaming,” Kolfage thought,  e attack and response was 30 sec- back to Washington, to my “real” job covering Congress.  e guys stayed deployed. On this day, Kolfage awoke rst. He “those malaria pills give crazy, crazy onds, start-stop. Kolfage screamed for Our lives would not intersect again until a year later, when Wurm reached out: put on his shorts and a T-shirt and shuf- dreams.” water and Cortez dumped a bottle on “Have you heard about Kolfage?”  ed out of the tent that he, Cortez, and a  en his senses raced back, scream- his face and mouth as medics arrived ✪ ✪ ✪ handful of other men shared outside of ing, “You’ve been hit.” screaming, “don’t do that you’ll kill H Congressional and legislative issues Balad’s  ight line. Cortez was slower to Hearing returned rst. Kolfage shud- him.” Kolfage slumped and told him Top: A severely injured A1C Brian SEPT. , ‹: A streak of dust and Kolfage didn’t have to be there. He rise. As Kolfage opened the tent  ap, he dered at the wail of a base siren. He he was tired. Cortez slapped him hard Kolfage receives the Purple Heart in sunlight pushed Kolfage awake. 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MSGT. JOHANN KO MSGT. ASHLEY T. STRONG be kept abreast of USAF breaking news and to research other MQ-9 Evaluator Sensor Operator Dental Flight Chief 78th Attack Squadron (Air Force Reserve Command) 21st Medical Squadron (Air Force Space Command) Creech AFB, Nev. Schriever AFB, Colo. Home of Record: Fremont, Calif. Home of Record: Tallassee, Ala. matters that relate to the US Air Force. MSgt. Johann Ko flew 952 combat hours supporting National Com- MSgt. Ashley T. Strong drove US Air Forces in Europe’s largest dental mand Authority objectives that enabled 19 engagements and killed 47 personnel reliability program, supporting 42,000 patient visits, enabling insurgents. He led an 11-person flight and authored wing-, group-, and a 99 percent war-ready rate. She undertook Air Force Medical Opera- squadron-level awards packages to secure awards for 11 airmen. As an tions Agency’s top priority by initiating two process improvement teams MQ-9 instructor and evaluator, Ko executed 56 upgrade events, taught aimed at building a medical records guide to support Veterans Aš airs over 85 flight hours, and certified 11 members on moving target attack. claims. As the 31st Fighter Wing operations security manager, she led Additionally, Ko led 28 Total Force integrated aircrew members as sec- two vulnerability town hall meetings that resulted in a 79 percent reduc- tion chief. His team eliminated two Tier 1 high-value targets and was tion in security breaches in 16 squadrons. Strong chaired the Aviano AB, awarded back-to-back 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing Mission Crew of Italy, team that enacted policies responsible for slashing alcohol-related the Quarter awards. Ko graduated from the NCO Academy as a distin- incidents by 34 percent. She championed the Green Dot violence-pre- guished graduate. vention education program by facilitating two early adopter courses, 29 overviews, and key spouse training for the Team Peterson community.

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A1C Tyler Covington works maintenance on the blades of an F119 engine at Tyndall AFB, Fla. New engines in the works could improve fighter flight range up to 30 percent, improve stealth capabilities, and produce enough spare energy to H Leadership and Personnel: If there is news within the ranks, fire directed energy weapons. Real propulsion breakthroughs may be you will find it covered in the Daily Report ready to leave the lab and enter the fleet. ENGINES OF INNOVATION The Daily Report offers companies access to its USAF and ruly game-changing break- great benefit to the F-35 strike fight- By Jim Mathews program, launched in 2012 and con- course. Engineers, at the cost of mil- dle-nosed fighter and would be incapa- throughs in US fighter en- er, allowing it to sustain high-speed cluding this year. lions of dollars, worked to find even ble of developing the kind of high-thrust T gines are nearly in hand. After flight at treetop altitudes, something are truly a generation ahead,” said Pratt The term “adaptive” refers to an one or two percent improvements in performance a fighter must have. more than a decade of labor by Air it can’t do today. The work is ad- & Whitney’s James Kenyon, senior engine that can change its internal fuel efficiency. Then came ADVENT, shorthand Force Research Laboratory and en- vanced enough that, given a green director of advanced programs and geometry to be efficient in a variety of These refinements focused on man- for the Air Force’s ADaptive Versatile defense industry readership through text and banner gine-makers Pratt & Whitney and light, a new development program technology, in a 2016 news release. missions and flight conditions. aging the trade-offs between high- ENgine Technology. Started in 2007, General Electric Aviation, increases with a short execution time line could Subsequent development—funded by er thrust and fuel efficiency. In the it coalesced ideas on adaptive designs in speed and range, reduced depen- be launched and start producing new the Air Force, Navy, and in-house— TRADE-OFFS 1990s, those compromises led to the and variable cycles that engineers had dency on tankers, and a menu of new power plants by the early 2020s. have yielded “tremendous progress” Aircraft jet engines operate on what’s introduction of commercial “big fan” been talking about for years. tactics are just some of the advantages since 2012 and “we’re eager to move called the Brayton Cycle, named after engines—typically seen slung under In ADVENT, the Air Force funded coming in the next few years. TREMENDOUS PROGRESS into the next phase of adaptive engine the Englishman George Brayton, who the wings of airliners—designed to GE Aviation and Rolls-Royce North advertising within the column. This is an affordable and By 2021, engineers are expected So significant are the improve- development,” he said. commercialized this thermodynamic move large masses of air with the least America—the two engine-makers not to have built and tested flightworthy ments that the new engine technology That next phase is the Adaptive En- cycle in the 19th century. It describes fuel possible. The bigger the fan, the then involved in the F135 engine engines that could, for example, give effort has been exempt from recent gine Transition Program, or AETP, a the gas turbine process of compressing more air that could move and thus the program for the F-35 strike fighter— new fighters 30 percent more range budget cuts, to quicken the pace that five-year project that began last sum- air, mixing it with fuel, causing com- more thrust that could be generated to work on very high-pressure ratio than they have today, produce enough the new power plants can be deployed mer with $1 billion contracts each to bustion, expansion of the resulting per input of fuel. Typically, more than engine cores and adaptive, multistage targeted way to reach the decision-makers at the Pentagon and spare power to fire directed energy in the inventory. Pratt & Whitney and General Electric gases, and vectoring them through an three-quarters of the air “bypassed” fans and low-pressure sections. weapons, or run cool enough to im- “We’ve gained tremendous insight Aviation. It will refine and mature exhaust to produce thrust. the core engine. Higher pressure ratio compressors prove stealth. Besides those advan- from our experience designing en- technologies developed in the Adap- By a decade ago, refinements of the In the tactical arena, though, a 12- can drive more core engine airflow,

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