Author: Staff Writer

Each year, Air Mobility Command recognizes Airmen who have made outstanding contributions to the Air Force’s global mobility mission.

The F-15EX Eagle ll is undergoing its first-ever operational test mission paired with F-15Cs and F-15Es at Nellis Air Force Base Oct. 18-25.

VALDOSTA — A former Air Force airman pleaded guilty to two counts of impersonating an officer after he pretended to be a federal agent at various times, including making a traffic stop, offering to solve a crime, and appearing at crime scene investigations armed while claiming to be an agent.

Gen. Mike Minihan, commander of Air Mobility Command, approved a third Interim Capability Release mission set for the KC-46A Pegasus, Oct. 13.

Dobbins Air Reserve Base officially welcomed its new commander over the weekend in a change of command ceremony ahead of Brig. Gen. Craig McPike’s move into his new role as vice commander of the 22nd Air Force.

“I knew this was going to be different — all of the assumptions and experiences from the past in Afghanistan were invalid,” Cook said. “I spoke with the leadership before they left and made sure they understood that

The Air Force is testing a mammoth, 5,000-pound bomb designed using advanced modeling to increase its impact in reaching and destroying hardened underground facilities the likes of North Korea’s ballistic-missile and nuclear-weapons facilities.

Closing statements concluded Friday and jury deliberations are underway in the case against an U.S. Air Force airman who is accused of killing a Mennonite woman.

The Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron Hurricane Hunters, from Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, completed their final flight into Hurricane Sam, Oct. 2, which still churns in the Atlantic, but due to its location and the discontinuation of the tropical storm warnings, has been downgraded from a category four storm.

The Hawaii-based 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command is overseeing what it is calling a “temporary ” and “experimental ” deployment of one of the Army’s Iron Dome Defense Systems to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam for operational testing.