Author: Staff Writer

Around 3.8 billion dollars in DoD funding may be going spending along the border between the US and Mexico, costing the military a handful of aircraft, vehicles and extra money for government equipment replacement programs. The US Air Force will be losing around $336 million in the deal, which will ultimately result in the loss […]

US Air Force personnel with “religious” preferences that allow for beards, hijabs, turbans and other non-standard exemptions to grooming policy are getting their big break, including a considerable facial hair upgrade. The guidance, which was published last Friday, covers a wide variety of faiths, including the Norse Pagan faith, Islam and Sikhism.  Beards, which were […]

WASHINGTON — The newly established Space Force will grow from its one member now to an estimated 15,000 to 16,000 troops in the coming years, Pentagon planners reported this week to Congress, but it remains unclear what Space Force members will be called. Space Force planners are taking the naming of their troops very seriously, […]

2019 was a dismal year for the US Air Force when it came to suicides, reaching record-breaking heights that the service never wishes to surpass again. Around 137 Airmen across all components took their own lives last year, a thirty-three percent boost over the 2018 numbers. “Suicide is a difficult national problem without easily identifiable […]

TOKYO — The Air Force tightened curfew for service members at Misawa Air Base in northeast Japan after several alcohol-related incidents, including drunken driving, over the past two months, according to an order issued Sunday by the commander of the 35th Fighter Wing. “In the last 60 days, there have been 5 cases of driving […]

WASHINGTON — Reports of sexual assaults at military academies were up 33% last year, reinforcing a disturbing trend at the elite institutions for the past few years. The annual Department of Defense report, released Thursday, said the schools received 149 reports of sexual assault during the 2018-2019 academic year, up from 117 reports last year. […]

One of two aviators killed Monday when their Bombardier E-11A crashed in Afghanistan was a grass-to-brass lieutenant colonel in his 25th year of Air Force service. The captain he flew beside was an experienced B-1 bomber pilot. The Pentagon on Wednesday identified the pair as Lt. Col. Paul K. Voss, 46, of Yigo, Guam, and […]

A flight carrying government employees evacuated from the U.S. Consulate in the Chinese city of Wuhan amid a coronavirus outbreak will land at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County instead of Ontario International Airport, officials announced Tuesday night. Curt Hagman, chairman of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, said in a video news release that […]

A man previously identified as “Jon Doe” has been confirmed to be an Airman that was once from Travis Air Force Base. Keith Keiffer, 32, was located in an Amador County ditch near Highway 88 and French Gulch Road in Pine Grove Wednesday afternoon. A West Virginia Native, Keiffer was found with a head injury, […]