Author: Michael Swaney

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 […]

Tawanda Rooney, deputy director of the Air Force concepts, development and management office, announces funding for historically Black colleges and universities to create a university affiliated research center consortium during a press briefing at the Pentagon, Arlington, Va., June 27, 2022. UARCs are research centers affiliated with a university to ensure that technology and engineering […]

As the fiscal year 2023 approaches, some Airmen are going to find out their pay is soon to be reduced due to fiscal constraints. Airmen who work some of the more difficult jobs will see cuts to their Special Duty Assignment Pay (SDAP) starting October 1st. SDAP is intended “to compensate enlisted service members who […]

All F-35s in US Air Force Inventory are airworthy once again, following a series of ejection seat inspections. The fleet is back to normal operations following an inspection of 706 seat initiator cartridges from 349 F-35s. USAF Air Combat Command spokeswoman Alexi Worley stated that a small number of F-35As that were already in depot […]

Noah Feit The State A South Carolina man and former member of the U.S. Air Force is going to prison for a sex crime involving a minor, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. , a 25-year-old Moncks Corner resident, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for production of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release. There is no parole in […]

Sig Christenson San Antonio Express-News Jul. 28—The Air Force has grounded 279 planes, a significant portion of its training aircraft, the T-38 Talon and T-6A Texan II. It blamed a problem with “quality defects” in the manufacture of explosive cartridges in the escape systems on both planes, which are used to train novice and instructor […]

New York Army National Guard leaders stretch before the Army Combat Test on April 27, 2019 at the Division of Military and Naval Affairs in Latham, N.Y. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Capt. Jean Marie Kratzer) Lauren Stanforth Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Jul. 26—COLONIE — State Police have charged a 20-year-old man who allegedly made a […]