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Aerospace World Aerospace World By Adam J. Hebert, Senior Editor Tanker Compromise Reached The Air Force announced Nov. 6 that the Administration had reached an agreement with Congress over the service’s plan to acquire new KC-767 refueling tankers. The deal would en- able USAF to lease 20 and buy 80 of the Boeing aircraft, ending an extended controversy over USAF’s plan to lease all 100 tankers. USAF photo by SrA. James Seymore Under the terms of the agreement, the Air Force will lease 20 KC-767A aircraft, beginning in 2006. This will allow the service to begin to replace its fleet of aging KC-135s sooner than would have been possible through a traditional acquisition program. USAF will begin its purchase of 80 addi- tional tankers in 2008, with final de- livery in 2014. The service’s acquisition execu- tive, Marvin R. Sambur, said that “de- tails remain to be finalized.” How- A KC-135 tanker on Nov. 6 takes off from Incirlik AB, Turkey. Tankers and ever, he added that the compromise crews from Grand Forks AFB, N.D., McConnell AFB, Kan., and Robins AFB, Ga., agreement “achieves an appropriate deployed to Incirlik in early November to support missions over Afghanistan balance between the need to begin and Iraq. Congress finally approved a plan that will let USAF quickly replace its tanker recapitalization and the hard elderly tankers. (See “Tanker Compromise Reached,” at left.) fiscal realities of the budgeting pro- cess.” tract awards, and “survivability against In October, the first operational revised estimates of the [future] threat Raptor, No. 18, arrived at the pilot F/A-22 Sails Through Review environment.” training schoolhouse at Tyndall AFB, The F/A-22 Raptor, the Air Force’s Fla. Raptor pilots will train at Tyndall highest procurement priority, passed 27th FS To Get F/A-22s First before returning to Langley. its most recent Defense Acquisition The 27th Fighter Squadron, part of Board review, paving the way for the the 1st Fighter Wing located at Lang- Moseley: USAF Must Fill the Bins award of new contracts. ley AFB, Va., will be the first Air USAF reconstitution requires a The review panel in late September Force unit to fly operational F/A-22s. huge infusion of basic items con- concluded that the stealthy fighter’s The service announced the deci- sumed during Gulf War II, said Gen. contractor team “continues to make sion in October. T. Michael Moseley. progress to improve avionics stabil- The squadron flies F-15C fighters The Air Force vice chief of staff, ity,” one of the key developmental and will begin next year to transition testifying before the House Armed stumbling blocks in recent months. from Eagles to Raptors. The F/A-22 Services Committee on Oct. 21, said Next up for award are the program’s is scheduled to reach initial opera- the service must restock depleted Lot 4 (production) and Lot 5 (ad- tional capability in 2005. supplies of precision weapons—both vance procurement) contracts. How- Evidently, the squadron’s history laser guided and satellite guided ever, the panel ordered USAF to wait played a major role in USAF’s deci- types. until the program meets designated sion to make it the vanguard of F/A- Also in the pipeline are new electro- exit criteria. 22 deployment. optical Maverick missiles to replace Plans call for the panel in Febru- The 27th in 1941 became the first older versions and Wind-Corrected ary to meet again to further review unit to fly the P-38 Lightning and in Munitions Dispenser-equipped clus- the F/A-22’s progress, according to 1975 became the first to fly opera- ter bombs to restock older cluster a Defense Department information tional F-15s, said Col. Frank Gorenc, bomb units used in the conflict. Other paper. wing commander. needs include rockets, various small The panel will then evaluate readi- If all goes as planned, the three 1st arms, and fuzes. ness to enter initial operational test FW squadrons will have made the Moseley said most of these items and evaluation, reliability growth plans, transition to F/A-22 operations by the would be procured through supple- exit criteria for the next batch of con- end of 2007. mental funding. 12 AIR FORCE Magazine / December 2003 Troops Need Reconstitution, Too As Moseley sees it, the Air Force also needs to reconstitute its person- nel to go along with its hardware. He told the House panel that the equivalent of 7.3 of the Air Force’s 10 Air Expeditionary Forces are, even now, “globally engaged.” Fully eight of the 10 were engaged during Gulf War II. USAF photo by SSgt. Alex Koenig The force has been so busy for so long that it has fallen well off its train- ing, education, and rotation sched- ules. USAF needs to get back on track, said Moseley. The Air Force “must focus on re- constituting capabilities, not just com- modities,” he explained. Air Force leaders are struggling to get back to troop rotations lasting 90 days. The 90-day rotations were sus- pended at the start of the war and have not been reinstated. Air Force plans call for resumption of the 90- An Air Force C-130 drops fire retardant on a wildfire in Southern California. day AEF standard in March. Four USAF wings helped fight the fires: Air National Guard’s 146th Airlift At that time, said Moseley, Air Force Wing, Channel Islands AGS, Calif.; Air Force Reserve Command’s 302nd AW, fighter and bomber forces “will be Peterson AFB, Colo.; ANG’s 153rd AW, Cheyenne, Wyo.; and ANG’s 145th ready to resume normal rotations.” AW, Charlotte, N.C.. Moreover, added Moseley, “we will have completed the repositioning of our war reserve stocks.” However, said the vice chief, the The Latest In Iraq Air Force “will not meet the March goal” in certain high-demand career fields because they are engaged in OIF Casualties Slowly Climb sustained combat operations and are By Oct. 23, deaths during Operation Iraqi Freedom reached a total of 548 not able to work off their training since combat operations began. These include 219 deaths due to hostile backlogs in time. actions and 124 noncombat fatalities. Since the end of major combat operations May 1, deaths totaled 205. Of those fatalities, 104 were due Dyess B-1Bs in Record Surge to hostile fire, and 101 were from noncombat causes. A group of 18 B-1B bombers based at Dyess AFB, Tex., surged in Octo- Gulf War II fatalities passed the total from the 1991 Gulf War on Sept. 13, ber, generating 114 sorties in 68 when they reached 294. In the 40 days from Sept. 13 to Oct. 23, 49 hours. This was a record rate, Air additional Americans died in Iraq, slightly more than one per day. Force officials said. Operation Iron Thunder, as the Ansar al-Islam Terror Leader Apprehended surge exercise was called, ran from US officials captured Aso Hawleri, a top member of the Ansar al-Islam Oct. 7 through Oct. 9 and produced terror organization that has ties to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda terror 321 simulated bombing runs, accord- network, in Iraq. Hawleri, also known as Asad Muhammad Hasan, was ing to a service news release. taken into custody in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, according to the USAF has “known for a long time” Associated Press. that B-1Bs could strike targets from long range with large payloads, noted Thought to be the third-ranking member of his terror organization, Col. Jonathan George, commander Hawleri was reportedly taken into custody by members of the 101st of the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess. Airborne without shots being fired. He went on to say that this surge operation “demonstrated the impres- Saddam Hussein Holed Up Near Tikrit? sive amount of firepower ... that we could potentially unleash on the en- US officials said in October that they believe deposed Iraqi dictator emy” in a relatively short period. Saddam Hussein may be hiding out near his hometown of Tikrit, in north- If those 114 flights had been ac- central Iraq. “We have clear indication he has been here recently,” said tual combat sorties, said George, Army Maj. Troy Smith, a deputy brigade commander in Tikrit. “He could the B-1Bs could have delivered more be here right now,” Smith said Oct. 13. than 2,500 Joint Direct Attack Muni- tions. To deliver that same weapons Hussein’s exact whereabouts—or even if he is still alive—has been load, a force of F-16 fighters would unknown since the attacks March 20 that marked the beginning of need 1,400 sorties. Operation Iraqi Freedom. Overall, of the 55 former regime leaders on the coalition’s “most wanted” list, 38 are reportedly in custody, three are Jones Says US May Quit Bosnia thought dead, and 14 remained at large by mid-October. US peacekeeping forces may be withdrawn from Bosnia in 2004, re- AIR FORCE Magazine / December 2003 13 Aerospace World ported Marine Corps Gen. James L. sion lacks the “maturity” needed to In recent years, the Departments Jones. send military peacekeepers home. of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Jones, the Supreme Allied Com- US troops have been helping to keep have received roughly even shares mander, Europe and commander of the peace in Kosovo ever since Opera- of defense funds, though this was not US European Command, made the tion Allied Force in 1999 prompted always the case. (See “Footing the announcement Oct. 10. Serbia to withdraw its forces from the Bill for Military Space,” August, p.
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