Category: News

A team of firefighters from Kirtland Air Force Base has deployed to combat the largest wildland fire in the United States. 

The oldest of three remaining Pearl Harbor survivors in the San Antonio area, he didn’t imagine he’d live to be 101. He’ll cross that threshold today, and he says he’s not done having birthdays.

Punishment has been handed down to members of the Mississippi Coast-based Hurricane Hunters after they made a detour to pick up a crew member’s personal motorcycle.

Eight F-35A Lightning II fifth-generation fighters from the Vermont Air National Guard’s 158th Fighter Wing recently arrived at Spangdahlem Air Base to continue NATO’s enhanced air policing mission along the eastern flank.

Airmen from the 22nd Air Refueling Wing completed a 24.2-hour flight on a KC-46A Pegasus May 5-6, to and from McConnell Air Force Base.

Airmen at North Dakota’s Minot Air Force Base are being given a strict order by their superiors: stop killing prairie dogs with blowguns. The issue appears to surround two things common with the remote location, namely boredom and prairie dogs. Minot officials are paying special focus to on-base housing, as the use of said blow […]

Hugh Johnson The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.) May 4—The Air Force Academy announced on Wednesday the death of a cadet from complications caused by a fall last month. Cadet 4th Class Christopher Scott Ryong Adams suffered “severe injuries” in a fall on April 23 during personal recreation, according to Commandant of Cadets Brig. Gen. Paul Moga. Conner Adams, who said […]

Airmen from the 55th Fighter Squadron and Fighter Generation Squadron recently returned home to Shaw Air Force Base after a six-month long deployment to an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia. 

The Air Force Research Laboratory and Eglin Air Force Base’s Integrated Test Team demonstrated a new low-cost, air-delivered capability for defeating maritime threats April 28, that successfully destroyed a full-scale surface vessel in the Gulf of Mexico

Invoking Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s observation that militaries fail when they are slow and “too late” to change, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall urged Congress April 27 to embrace a $194 billion budget request specifically tailored to “transform” and modernize the Air and Space Forces to meet growing challenges from China.