How the First Female Pilot to Die on Active Duty with the US Military Cultivated Her Love of Flying Women Airforce Service Pilots, created in August 1943 after WAFS and WFTD merged, flew at 126 military bases, handling 80% of...
The Osprey's Safety Issues Spiked over Five Years and Caused Deaths. Pilots Still Want to Fly It The Osprey is back in the air after being grounded for months following a crash last November that killed eight U.S. service...
Congress Eyes Top Honor for Navy Pilot Who Was Second-Longest Ever US Military POW Lawmakers are working to award the Congressional Gold Medal to retired Cmdr. Everett Alvarez Jr., who spent eight and a half...
It Took 8 Deployments, 3 Pregnancies, and $43,700 in IVF Treatments for Kristin and Joe to Have Their Baby Military service members do not receive funding for assisted reproductive services unless their fertility issues are a direct...
Bronze Statue of Tuskegee Airman Found After Theft from Detroit City Park The statue of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson was reported missing Wednesday evening from Rouge Park on Detroit's far west side...
Navy Aviators Killed in Growler Crash near Mount Rainier Were Decorated Combat Veterans Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay "Miley" Evans, a naval flight officer, and Lt. Serena "Dug" Wileman, a naval aviator, both 31 years old and...
How These US Military Aviators Became the First to Fly Around the World To say the least, the eight Army Air Force aviators who departed Seattle on April 6, 1924, did not face an easy assignment.
The Unbelievable Way Allied Pilots 'Rammed' Nazi Cruise Missiles Out of the Sky Nicknamed "buzz bombs" because of the distinctive sound of their pulsejet engines, the V1 created the drain on morale their...
Newly Trained Air Force Pilots Must Consider Jobs Outside Flying Fighters or Bombers Due to Manning Shortfall A new Air Force policy may require recent T-38 Talon pilot training graduates to fly aircraft other than fighters or bombers...
I Was an Air Force Fighter Pilot. Now I Help Addicts in Prison Turn Their Lives Upside Down. Thirty years after my jet-flying days, I suddenly landed hard inside the concrete walls of San Quentin State Prison: 26 years...
Naval Academy Staff Removed Display on Female Jewish Graduates for Hegseth Visit The U.S. Naval Academy has confirmed that officials there removed items commemorating female Jewish graduates from a historic...
'The Greatest Soldier in American History' Took a Tank Round to the Leg and Kept Fighting The only reason Matt Urban didn't receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly breaking an entire battalion through France...
My Black Roommate Opened My Eyes to an Air Force I Didn’t Know Existed I realized I had been sheltered from much of the world's ugliness and was more than a little naive. I thought the problems I...
4 US Soldiers Who Died in Lithuania Swamp When Their Vehicle Sank Are Identified The recovery operation for the bodies and the M88 was an intricate and arduous weeklong process, enlisting the expertise of...
How Comic Legend Mel Brooks Defused Land Mines During World War II Brooks participated in the Battle of the Bulge -- Germany's final major offensive on the Western Front -- but to his...
