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Air Force World by Aaron M Air Force World By Aaron M. U. Church, Associate Editor Airman Killed in Afghanistan Wilkens, 26, of Bend, Ore.; and SrA. Julian Lt. Col. John Darin Loftis, 44, of Pa- S. Scholten, 26, of Upper Marlboro, Md., screenshot ducah, Ky., was killed in an insurgent died in the crash, the Defense Depart- attack on the Afghan Interior Ministry ment said. They were returning from an in Kabul, Feb. 25, according to the Operation Enduring Freedom mission. Defense Department. Hall, a U-28 pilot, was assigned to Assigned to the Air Force Special the 319th Special Operations Squad- Operations School at Hurlburt Field, ron. Whitlock, also a U-28 pilot, and Fla., Loftis was serving with the 866th Wilkens, a combat systems officer, were USAF photo by MSgt. Sean Mitchell Air Expeditionary Squadron in Kabul members of the 34th SOS. Scholten, a when a gunman shot him. mission systems operator, served with Loftis was one of two US military of- the 25th Intelligence Squadron. ficers killed in the attack on the ministry The Air Force is investigating the that was seen as retribution for the cause of the accident. accidental burning of several copies of the Koran at Bagram Airfield. Also killed Locklear Takes PACOM Reins was Army Maj. Robert J. Marchanti II. Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III became Fluent in Pashto, Loftis was the chief commander of US Pacific Command on plans advisor for the AfPak Hands March 9. He succeeds Adm. Robert F. program, which trains US service per- Willard, who had held the command sonnel in Afghan and Pakistani culture since October 2009. and language. Locklear previously commanded US Naval Forces Europe, where he had Djibouti Crash Kills Four Airmen been assigned since October 2010. Four airmen assigned to Hurlburt Field, Fla., were killed in the crash Rewinged Warthog of a U-28 intelligence-surveillance- Boeing and the Air Force recently reconnaissance aircraft near Camp rolled out the first rewinged A-10C Lemonnier in Djibouti on Feb. 18. ground-attack aircraft in a ceremony at Capt. Ryan P. Hall, 30, of Colorado Hill AFB, Utah. Springs, Colo.; Capt. Nicholas S. Whit- “This enhanced wing assembly will lock, 29, of Newnan, Ga.; 1st Lt. Justin J. give the A-10 new strength and a new Budget-Strategy Mismatch The Pentagon’s Fiscal 2013 budget request doesn’t match the new national defense strategy, which emphasizes air- and sea power rather than land forces, according to Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the Center for Budgetary and Strategic Assessments. “If you look at [Fiscal] ’12 to ’13,” the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps all gain, while “the Air Force goes down,” Harrison said in an address at a Feb. 17 Mitchell Institute for Airpower Studies presentation. Air Force-specific “blue” funding—excluding money passed to other defense and intelligence agencies—actually declines three percent in the Fiscal 2013 budget proposal. At the same time, Army-specific funding rises four percentage points, while Marine Corps funding effectively rises by one percent. Unlike the Air Force, ground services are funding personnel costs through the overseas contingency budgets instead of their baseline budget. As a result, they manage to maintain high personnel levels even as USAF has been forced to cut end strength. That “saves” the Army $4 billion and the Marines $1 billion respectively, said Harrison. While USAF paid the price up front, the other branches will find it difficult to maintain force levels “when we are no longer in combat operations,” said Harrison. 12 AIR FORCE Magazine / April 2012 foundation for its continued service into The Feb. 15 rollout followed the Air the two new rounds of Base Realignment 2040,” said Mark Bass, Boeing’s mainte- Force’s proposal earlier in the month to and Closure proposed by the Obama nance, modifications, and upgrades vice eliminate five A-10 squadrons from the Administration for 2013 and 2015. president, in a company news release. Fiscal 2013 budget. “I have serious questions whether we Boeing is under contract to deliver 233 “We’re reducing 102 A-10s” but “there save any money from a BRAC process,” wing sets to the Air Force through 2018. are still going to be 246 A-10s left in the Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) said during a The company is producing the wings at inventory,” Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Feb. 14 hearing. its facility in Macon, Ga. Schwartz said at a Pentagon briefing in Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) said The kits are supplied to Ogden Air early February. he would oppose more rounds of BRAC, Logistics Center at Hill for installation arguing that the US military is already on those A-10s in the fleet with com- Balking at BRAC being reduced “to an unacceptable level.” paratively thin-skin wings that have been Members of the Senate Armed Ser- Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, prone to cracks in the past. vices Committee are concerned about testifying at the hearing, told the Senators An HC-130 King and an HH-60 Pave Hawk, both from the Air National Guard, JB 03.14.2012 Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, practice refueling maneuvers. These aircraft and their crews perform combat search and rescue missions and have been heavily tasked to support operations worldwide. AIR FORCE Magazine / April 2012 13 Air Force World USAF photo by MSgt. Jeremy Lock Flying Leaner, Greener: An F-16 from the 180th Fighter Wing, Toledo Express Arpt., Ohio, undergoes preflight checks before taking off with a 50-50 blend of The F-16 SLEP effort would be a conventional and biofuels. A pair of Ohio Air National Guard F-16s successfully “depot-level upgrade program,” accord- switched between a biofuel blend and standard JP-8 fuel in midflight for the first ing to a USAF spokeswoman. time during a training drill in February. Running on a mix of camelina-derived bio- The Air Force announced it plans fuel and JP-8, they rendezvoused with a KC-135, taking on a load of standard JP-8 to SLEP a portion of its F-16 fleet in fuel. After completing the sortie, the pair returned to base, topping off again with 2017; airframes receiving the CAPES the biofuel blend for the next sortie, showing that they could seamlessly switch improvements would re-enter service between the fuel types. in 2018. that as a former Congressman whose play, data link enhancements, and an 18-Hole Nuclear Tee Off district had been affected by a base improved defensive suite. In the first full year of the New START closure, “I recognize how controversial Notional plans call for an initial con- nuclear weapons agreement, the US this process is for members and for tract for 30 SLEP kits in March 2016, and Russia each completed 18 on-site constituencies.” However, he insisted followed by a second contract for 48 nuclear inspections—the maximum that in his opinion BRAC “is the only additional kits in January 2018. permitted under the treaty. effective way to achieve needed infra- structure savings.” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) voiced support for consolidation, say- ing, “It’s appropriate to consider another round” of BRAC. F-16 Refresher USAF photo TSgt.by Arian Nead The Air Force requested both a ser- vice life extension and upgrade for 350 F-16s in its Fiscal 2013 budget request. Aimed at keeping the fleet viable until F-35s enter service in strength, the service life extension program would include a “full-scale durability test and structural modifications to add eight to 10 years of service life to each airframe,” according to USAF’s budget overview, released in February. A further Combat Avionics Pro- grammed Extension Suite will be added to a select number of SLEP airframes In the Hot Pit: Airmen with the 380th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron and would modernize those F-16s with help perform a “hot pit” refueling on an F-15 Eagle on a flight line in Southwest Asia. a more capable active electronically During a hot pit refueling, the aircraft is fueled while the engines are still running, to scanned array radar, new cockpit dis- reduce ground time and get the aircraft quickly back up for another mission. 14 AIR FORCE Magazine / April 2012 Since New START entered into force in February 2011, the two countries also exchanged 1,800 notifications through the treaty’s risk-reduction centers, ac- cording to a summary issued by the State Department. To enhance stability and trust, the US notified Russian counterparts “every time a heavy bomber ... moved out of its home country for more than 24 hours,” USAF photo by SrA. Melanie Holochwost as required by the rules, the Feb. 5 news release noted. The Air Force exhibited a B-2A stealth bomber for the Russian delegation and conducted a one-time demonstration of the denuclearized B-1B bomber. In exchange, Russia gave US observ- ers their first look at the RS-24 mobile ICBM system, which can deploy inde- pendent warheads on several different targets. Slimming USAFE Not Such a Bad Guy: This “suicide bomber” is actually TSgt. Derrik Morris, a 332nd The Air Force is inactivating two Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron noncommissioned officer in charge of a security escort team in Southwest Asia. Morris, aided by an interpreter and his 332nd ESFS team, Europe-based squadrons as part of the led the training of host nation airmen in how to respond to unconventional, deadly threats. Pentagon’s posture change emphasizing Asia and the Middle East. The 81st Fighter Squadron at Spang- and ground trials at Dyess AFB, Tex., in B-1Bs at Dyess and Ellsworth AFB, dahlem AB, Germany—an A-10C unit— February, paving the way for fleetwide S.D., were due to begin receiving the and the 603rd Air Control Squadron, upgrades.
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