Author: Staff Writer

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 […]

The Air Force is developing cruise missiles that could be launched in large numbers from the back of cargo planes, according to officials from the service’s research laboratory. The lab combined with the Air Force Special Operations Command to launch simulated versions of the missiles from an MC-130J special operations tanker in January at Dugway […]

The US Air Force is taking advantage of mass layoffs within the airline industry to try and bring pilots back into the fold- it’s just figuring out “how to do it” that seems to be the challenging part. In light of personnel shortages, the Air Education and Training Command has been looking at ways to […]

In a memorandum dated June 18, 2020, Lt. Gen. Dorothy Hogg, Air Force Surgeon General authorized five-year shaving waivers for Air and Space professionals diagnosed with Pseudofolliculitis Barbae, effective immediately. Driven by feedback from the field, the change is intended to provide more time for skin to heal and prevent a recurrence. The previous policy required […]

Guam is seeing an increase in coronavirus infections at Andersen Air Force Base, with 35 members hospitalized and quarantined. The servicemembers were part of an unidentified unit that arrived on May 25, and were staying at the Guam Reef Hotel. An investigation has been launched by the USAF to see if mandatory protection protocols were […]

The U.S. Air Force has made history twice this month with its latest appointees. The Air Force on Friday selected Chief Master Sgt. JoAnne S. Bass to be its next chief master sergeant, the first woman to serve as its top enlisted leader. Bass, whose mother is Korean, is also the first Asian-American to hold the position, […]

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — On Sept. 20, 2008, Air Force Maj. Rodolfo Rodriguez was outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, when a dump truck rammed the hotel’s security gate and caught fire. Rodriguez, who was 34, immediately called in the attempted terrorist attack to his command before the line suddenly went silent. The […]

The young Air Force pilot killed in an F-15C fighter jet crash in the North Sea off the coast of England this week was a man of strong faith who showed love and respect for others, even in the face of danger, friends and family recalled.

Democratic senators on Tuesday grilled a Trump administration nominee about her role in blocking and weakening regulations on toxic chemicals, including compounds known as PFAS that have contaminated water supplies around Fairchild Air Force Base. The hearing came on the heels of a federal study that found PFAS blood concentrations far exceeding national averages among […]