Author: Staff Writer

A former Air Force Thunderbird and combat pilot assumed command of the 36th Wing at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, on Wednesday. Brig. Gen. Jeremy Sloane, an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot with 2,500 flying hours, took command of the wing’s five groups and 20 squadrons along with 14 joint tenant units from outgoing commander Brig. […]

American news and opinion site Salon apparently has it out for seasoned A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot and US Senator Martha McSally, going so far as to dig up comments made in an academic paper written over a decade ago. Roger Sollenberger, an Austin, Texas-based writer for Salon who has also been published by BuzzFeed and […]

SAGINAW, MI – A Saginaw native serving in the U.S. Air Force has earned military honors for saving the life of a woman in danger of drowning.

A retired officer who served in the Wisconsin Air National Guard is currently being reviled by the public after making insensitive comments about a young female Soldier who was gruesomely murdered at Fort Hood, Texas.

The USAF F-16 pilot of the 20th Fighter Wing -who died in a fatal crash on Tuesday night- has been identified as a 1st Lieutenant by the name of David Schmitz.

An F-16CM crashed during routine training at Shaw Air Force Base on Tuesday evening. The crash occurred around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to a spokesman for the base. The pilot of the F-16CM Fighting Falcon, assigned to the 20th Fighter Wing, was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead a short time later. It […]

Coronavirus cases have accelerated among Air Force recruits in San Antonio since the service ramped up testing five weeks ago, including a recent spike of 13 cases in one week. So far, a system of isolating positive cases and quarantining small groups developed at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland has allowed basic training there to continue. […]

On June 26, an active duty Air Force captain was rushed from the Scott AFB pool and taken to Memorial East Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. He has been identified as Capt. Nicholas Egich.

WASHINGTON — U.S. F-22 Raptor stealth fighter aircraft were scrambled to intercept two Russian military planes off Alaska’s coast late Wednesday in the fifth such incident U.S. military officials have reported this month. The F-22s intercepted two Russian IL-38 Dolphin maritime patrol aircraft, which flew within about 50 miles of Unimak Island, according to a […]

As Gen. Charles Brown, commander of Pacific Air Forces, prepares to leave the Pacific theater for the service’s top job next month, he takes with him a firsthand sense of China’s military ambitions in the region. “I’m concerned by increasingly opportunistic activity by [China] to coerce its neighbors and press its unlawful maritime claims while […]