Furloughs Severely Dropped AF Depot Production Sequester-mandated furloughs put a dent in what had been a significant increase in depot production this past year, but the...
Air Force's Top NCO Lauds Force Amid Drawdown, Promotion Changes The Air Force’s top enlisted man offers assurances that ongoing personnel cuts and other changes will not hurt the force.
Air Force Details Plans to Boost Number of Fighter, Drone Pilots The Air Force wants to increase the number of fighter pilots it trains each year to 1,375 officers, officials announced...
SOCOM Wants to Deploy MQ-9 Drones to Remote Areas Air Force Special Operations Command wants to pack up an MQ-9 Reaper in less than eight hours, fly it anywhere in the world...
Pentagon Building Case for Air Force Fleet Upgrades The Air Force now has the oldest fleet of bombers, fighters and tankers in its 67-year history.
Last Surviving 'Doolittle Raider' Takes Stage at Air Force Conference The last surviving member of the "Doolittle Raiders" took center stage at this year's Air Force Association conference.
New Air Force Tanker May Avoid Budget Ax The U.S. Air Force's new refueling tanker made by Boeing Co. may dodge automatic budget cuts known as sequestration next year...
Air Force EPR Chief: 'This is the KC-46 of Promotions' A room filled with anxious airmen questioned the chief of the Air Force's Enlisted Force Policy Branch at the Air Force...
Air Force to Consolidate Battlefield Training Locations to '3 or 4' The Air Force will consolidate eight locations it uses to train its battlefield airmen into "three or four," an official said...
Welsh: F-22 Flew to Drone's Rescue off Iran Coast Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh on Tuesday sketched out a dramatic tale of a lone F-22 Raptor chasing off Iranian fighter jets...
This World War II POW Endured More Than 50 Years in Captivity When Anna Gabulya saw a television report of a POW’s return to Hungary a half-century after he served during World War II...
Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Bribery Plot Retired Adm. Robert P. Burke, once the second-highest uniformed officer in the Navy, was commanding its forces in Europe and...
Pentagon Says Troops Can Only Be Exempt from Shaving Their Facial Hair for a Year Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a...
Black Vietnam Veteran’s Story Reveals War’s Harsh Realities 50 Years Later It was May 1970, deep in the jungles of Vietnam, and 19-year-old infantryman John Smith stepped to the edge of a hill to...
Trump Says US Forces Sank Third Suspected Drug Boat off Venezuela President Donald Trump did not say how many people were killed in the third strike.