Author: Staff Writer

A US Air Force Security Forces Airman’s death is under investigation at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, and authorities at the Texas-based installation do not believe Coronavirus was a factor. Tech. Sgt. Nicholas A. Vogler, who was assigned to the New York-based 914th Security Forces Squadron, died while attending a month-long instructor’s course in Texas. Vogler […]

WASHINGTON — Investigators believe two Air Force Academy seniors found dead in their dorm rooms in recent days died by suicide, prompting top Air Force leaders to travel Monday to the Colorado institution amid the coronavirus outbreak, service officials said. The back-to-back deaths of the male cadets, who were set to graduate in May and […]

WASHINGTON — Twenty-three U.S.-based Air Force units focused on space operations will move into the Space Force in the coming months as officials build up the military’s newest branch, Pentagon officials announced Tuesday. The units include about 1,840 positions to transfer from the Air Force’s control into the Space Force, said Maj. William Russell, a […]

WASHINGTON — The Air Force halted sending new recruits to basic training this week in an effort to ensure safety for trainees and instructors amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has sickened four individuals in the service’s initial training program, officials said Monday. The pause is only expected to last one week and will allow the […]

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The Air Force’s 18th Wing announced Saturday that two airmen assigned to Kadena Air Base have tested positive for coronavirus, making them the first U.S. service members on Okinawa known to be infected with the disease.  Both airmen, who are not part of the same unit, recently returned from Europe, 18th […]

A second cadet has been found dead at the U.S. Air Force Academy, days after officials reported that a “firstie” who was due to graduate in May had died. Cadets and staff were told in an online briefing on Saturday of the latest death at the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based academy, several members of the institution’s […]

CHIEVRES, Belgium — “Herky 72” pulls a tight turn to the right and then rolls 60 degrees to the left as it nears the drop zone, as if avoiding ground fire. On its final approach to the training area, where it will unload its cargo from the sky, the C-130J Super Hercules drops to just […]

A 24-year-old Air Force special tactics combat controller from Washington state was found dead Thursday after he went missing during a training swim at a Navy base in Panama City, Fla., service officials said. Airman 1st Class Keigan Baker, a native of Longview, Wash., was participating in a combat dive course conducted by Air Education […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A U.S. airman assigned to Kirtland Air Force Base is in federal custody after military investigators searching his KAFB residence found a cache of 17 firearms, two silencers, large amounts of ammunition, bomb-making instructions and photos of rifle magazines with the names of mass shooters written on them. Investigators said in a […]

A former U.S. Air Force Academy cadet was sentenced in a Denver federal court to five years in prison following his conviction for raping a female cadet, authorities said. U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello sentenced Alvaro Pablo Velarde, 20, of Lima, Peru, on Tuesday on two counts of aggravated sexual abuse and one […]