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...
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
