Author: Michael Swaney

The US Air Force is losing so much credibility over buggy administrative software, that even the top enlisted Airman is throwing shade at it. Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force JoAnne S. Bass took to Facebook to address the USAF’s near-universal hatred of a program known as myEval. “We get it, folks,” Bass wrote […]

Over one hundred C-130 Hercules transport aircraft are potentially deadlined, thanks to scratched propellers- and the problems likely go back for decades. The damage to the propellers was likely caused by engraving serial numbers on the blades. “The process used to engrave serial numbers on the propellers likely contributed to cracks that are being found […]

Amy Lavalley Post-Tribune, Merrillville, Ind. Oct. 28—An official with the U.S. Air Force confirmed to the Post-Tribune Thursday that information from First Congressional District candidate Jennifer-Ruth Green’s military record, including details about a sexual assault while she was serving in Iraq, were released to a third party by an individual who did not follow proper procedure. The details, first released earlier this month by […]

Hannah Jones The Macon Telegraph Oct. 20—WARNER ROBINS — The U.S. Air Force grounded 116 planes last month because of the sharp eye of a crew at Robins Air Force Base in Middle Georgia. The airmen were the first to spot an issue with a propeller system commonly used on C-130H aircraft. A maintenance crew at the Warner Robins Air Logistics […]

USAF Major Andre McDonald and his wife Andreen McDonald. Elizabeth Zavala San Antonio Express-News Oct. 19—SAN ANTONIO — A January trial date has been set for Maj. Andre Sean McDonald, 43, an Air Force Reserve officer charged with murder and tampering with evidence in the February 2019 disappearance of his wife. By the time the trial begins Jan. 17, […]

Stephanie Earls The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.) Sep. 27—The Department of the Air Force hasn’t yet issued its final word on the location of U.S. Space Command headquarters — a decision that will determine whether the base remains at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs or moves to Huntsville, Ala. — but a decision is coming. ETA, fall 2022. Two recently completed […]

Air Force ROTC Cadet Gursharan Virk, third from left, takes part in Detachment 255’s color guard ceremony at a football game at the University of Iowa in 2021. Virk is the first Sikh ROTC cadet to be granted religious accommodations by the Air Force in observation of his faith. The accommodations include wear of a […]

Courtesy graphic by Northrop Grumman Rapid City Journal, S.D. The B-21 Raider bomber will make its first public appearance in December, U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, R- S.D., announced Wednesday. The stealth bomber will have a public unveiling in Palmdale, California in the first week of December, Rounds said in a news release. Rounds, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, visited […]

Gina Joseph The Macomb Daily, Mount Clemens, Mich. Sep. 21—Don’t get your hopes up. But it looks as though Selfridge Air National Guard Base (SANG) is once again in the running to become a training center for the F-35 Lightning II fighter jets. The Department of the Air Force (DAF) issued a Draft Environmental Impact Statement […]

Then U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class David Schmitz, 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, prepares pallets for an air drop mission in support of Operation Enduring Freedom aboard a C-17 Globemaster III over Afghanistan, Sept. 18, 2010. Photo by Staff Sgt. Eric Harris A 2020 crash of an F-16 “Viper” has revealed that some of the components […]