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When the U.S. military wanted to define the look of a nascent branch of the armed forces, it turned to Tracy Roan and her team of designers in the Air Force Uniform Office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

The Air Force is testing a mammoth, 5,000-pound bomb designed using advanced modeling to increase its impact in reaching and destroying hardened underground facilities the likes of North Korea’s ballistic-missile and nuclear-weapons facilities.

Closing statements concluded Friday and jury deliberations are underway in the case against an U.S. Air Force airman who is accused of killing a Mennonite woman.

The Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron Hurricane Hunters, from Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, completed their final flight into Hurricane Sam, Oct. 2, which still churns in the Atlantic, but due to its location and the discontinuation of the tropical storm warnings, has been downgraded from a category four storm.

The Hawaii-based 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command is overseeing what it is calling a “temporary ” and “experimental ” deployment of one of the Army’s Iron Dome Defense Systems to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam for operational testing.

An Air Force fighter jet slated to debut later this year in Europe passed a milestone when it dropped mock nuclear bombs during training flights designed to ensure its ability to fulfill NATO’s nuclear deterrence mission, the military said Monday.

The New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing has wrapped up its annual support to the National Science Foundation in Greenland as Airmen and LC-130 “Skibirds” returned to Stratton Air National Guard Base Sept. 22.

Three Russian fighters intercepted a U.S. B-52H Stratofortress bomber Sunday near disputed territory that is claimed by Russia and Japan, according to Pacific Air Forces.

The move-in dates for some 760 Air Force personnel and contractors coming to Joint Base Langley Eustis, already postponed from an earlier target date of this fall, are still to be determined, the Air Combat Command said.

Air Force brass are refining lessons learned from an intensive three weeks of Alaskan flying for Langley Air Force Base’s 94th Fighter Squadron and 192nd wing last month but for Lt. Col. Jonathan Kuntz, the 94th’s commander, the big take-away is simple.