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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 […]

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 […]