Commentary by Master Sgt. Melissa Phillips 436th Airlift Wing Public Affairs DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AFPN) -- Before I left for my current deployment, an 8-year-old asked me out of the blue, "Why do you have to go to…

SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- Coalition airpower supported coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan during operations June 14, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. In Afghanistan, an Air Force B-1B…

Contact Your Lender Before Higher Payments Put Your Home at Risk Homeowners with adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) who are not able to make their monthly payment when the interest rate goes up should contact their lenders as soon as possible to…

Twelve Indicted, Nine Arrested PHOENIX -- On May 25 in Phoenix, a thirty-eight count federal grand jury indictment was unsealed against 12 people: Lutrell Maurice Sharpe, 39, Micah Lynn Bowens, 38, Jennifer Sue Sellers (a licensed Nevada real estate agent),…

by Staff Sgt. Carlos Diaz U.S. Central Command Air Forces Public Affairs CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq (AFPN) -- The numbers tell half the story: 700 combat missions, 140 joint patrols with Iraqi policemen in the streets of Baghdad, and 1,500 Iraqi…

Phoenix, Arizona - The United States Supreme Court recently rejected further hearings concerning Jeffrey Landrigans death sentence for the 1989 murder of Chester Dyer. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court reversed a U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision…

WASHINGTON PM Beef Holdings, LLC, a Windom, Minn., establishment, is voluntarily recalling approximately 117,500 pounds of beef trim products used to make ground beef, due to possible contamination with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agricultures Food Safety and…

An MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle sits in its hangar at Balad Air Base, Iraq, May 17 awaiting its next mission. The Predator provides armed reconnaissance, airborne surveillance and target acquisition for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S.…

USDA Releases Some Swine and Poultry for Processing WASHINGTON, May 7, 2007 There is very low risk to human health from consuming meat from hogs and chickens known to have been fed animal feed supplemented with pet food scraps that…

Image of the first of three buoys in the Captain John Smith Chesapeake Water Trail, which sits just off shore from a statue of its namesake in Jamestown, Va., shortly after being deployed in late April 2007 by NOAA and…

TUCSON Alberto Antonio Sanchez, 23, of Toluca, Mexico, was sentenced in Tucson on April 26 to 120 months incarceration by U.S. District Judge Frank R. Zapata. Sanchez pleaded guilty on February 15 to Transportation of Illegal Aliens for Commercial or…

Nicholson - Vets "Shouldn't Fight For Benefits Earned" WASHINGTON - Military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan can look forward to more timely receipt of benefits, better information and more streamlined processes, thanks to streamlined federal procedures announced by Secretary…