Air Force Sets Goal of 20 Flight Hours Per Month for Pilots Gen. David Goldfein said there is a push to get pilots more flight time, in tandem with producing more pilots in the ranks.
Some T-6s Will Fly Next Week to Test Maintenance Technique: General The Air Force is giving the green light to launch at least 24 flights of the T-6 Texan II trainer aircraft next week
T-X Trainer Is Coming But What About Light Attack? The Air Force is set to award a contract for its T-X trainer, and should get a funding boost in 2019.
USAF Short About 200 Maintainers, Pilot Training Continues: SecAF After boosting its maintainer ranks in recent months, the Air Force says it's now only 200 airmen short in the field.
Enlisted Drone Program Expands as Air Force Seeks More Operators The Air Force Personnel Center will decide on 40 new airmen out of 134 applicants by next month.
Air Force to Roll Out PT Test for Specific Career Fields This marks the first time specific career fields will have "occupationally specific and operationally relevant standards.
New Air Force Pilot Training Study to Include Enlisted Airmen The announcement of the inclusion comes as the Air Force suffers from a growing pilot shortage.
Air Force Special Operations Forces Train for Next Dynamic Battlefront From engaging in firefights to confined space rescue, the goal for special operators will be to balance all demands put on...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
