Creech Air Force Base News

An MQ-9 Reaper fliesA on a training mission at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada, in 2007.

A Nevada Air National Guard sergeant in southern Nevada has been chosen as airman of the year.

The history of Indian Springs, 45 miles north of Las Vegas, has been tied to transportation, farming, ranching and the military.

"Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan and members of CodePINK Women for Peace rolled their protest against the use of drone aircraft in the war in Afghanistan into the San Joaquin Valley on Saturday.

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan will be part of a protest at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield on Saturday.

A Creech Air Force Base policeman grabbed a video camera and prepared to film anti-war protesters Tuesday near the base's east gate.

Developer rejects Lord statements on detention center A federal detention center won't affect residential sales in the area near the StageStop Casino, Lennard Grodzinsky said Thursday.

Activists with peace groups CODEPINK and Nevada Desert Experience will fast outside of Creech Air Force Base against U.S. drone strikes on Afghanistan and Pakistan over the Thanksgiving Holiday, Nov.

WASHINGTON: As Pentagon officials look for ways to increase intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support for warfighters in Afghanistan, the Air Force's first unmanned aircraft systems wing already is on the case in its never-ending quest to provide more and better intelligence through the systems they fly.

An MQ-1B Predator unmanned aircraft takes off for a training mission at Creech Air Force Base, Nev.

As Pentagon officials look for ways to increase intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support for warfighters in Afghanistan, the Air Forcea s first unmanned aircraft systems wing already is on the case in its never-ending quest to provide more and better intelligence through the systems they fly.

Nevada military posts took no extraordinary precautions as a result of the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas.

CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. a ' Thirty years ago this week, a group of Iranian "students" shouting "death to America" stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking nearly 100 hostages a ' among them 65 Americans.

Two new programs here are focused on getting care and services to wounded or sick servicemembers and to military families during their loved ones' deployments.

Staff Sgt. David Popp meets with Afghan prison officials during a mentoring session Oct.

" The daily work duties are arduous, involving close tracking of insurgents, patiently watching them dart in and out of shelters and, if the opportunity presents itself, occasionally raining missiles down on their heads.

Airmen operating unmanned aerial vehicles had better get comfortable - they will be staying put until at least Sept.

In this March 13, 2007 file photo released by the Department of Defense, An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle from the 42nd Attack Squadron taxis into Creech Air Force Base, Nev.. U.S. military surveillance drones based in the Seychelles islands are patrolling off Somalia's coast in hopes of stemming a rising piracy trade.

With Joe Biden advocating an Afghanistan strategy that concentrates on remote drones, Douglas Rushkoff visits the Nevada site where soldiers play videogames - and real people die.

Dan Winters The Predator's big brother, the Reaper, is a third bigger, flies three times as fast, and carries a much bigger payload The war begins each day on the long drive into the desert, just past the Super Buffet and the Home Depot and the Petco, and the swath of look-alike houses that cling to the city's edge, along the forty miles of the ...