Stephen Losey
Senior Reporter
Stephen Losey is the air warfare reporter for Defense News. He previously covered leadership and personnel issues at Air Force Times, and the Pentagon, special operations and air warfare at Military.com. He has traveled to the Middle East to cover U.S. Air Force operations.
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Air Force aircraft readiness plunges to new low, alarming chief
As budget cuts loom, U.S. Air Force leaders lament a fleet in which all aircraft types don't pass muster.
Sound off! Air Force climate survey open through Oct. 30
The Air Force on Monday launched its 2018 Total Force Climate Survey to ask airmen how they think the service is going, and it will remain open until Oct. 30.
Air Force cuts 226 AFIs in latest salvo against hated ‘queep’
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said Tuesday the rescinded Air Force instructions contained 4,795 individual rules, or “compliance items,” that no longer need to be followed.
Gearbox failures, ejection seat setting mistakes led to fatal T-38 crash
The crash of a T-38C Talon training aircraft in Texas last November, which killed one of its two pilots, was caused by a dual failure of the trainer’s troubled airframe mounted gearboxes, according to a new Air Force report.
Medal of Honor recipient Chapman inducted into Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes
Air Force Tech. Sgt. John Chapman was inducted into the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes Thursday, one day after he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
'Extraordinary sacrifice’: Air Force Tech. Sgt. John Chapman posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor
Tech. Sgt. John Chapman, the combat controller who was killed trying to save the lives of a team of Army Rangers during a ferocious Afghanistan battle in 2002, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor Wednesday.
‘How incredible the sacrifice:' In the chaos of an Afghanistan battle, John Chapman’s heroism was clear
Figuring out what happened to Chapman on an 11,000-foot-high mountaintop in the early morning of March 4, 2002 — even confirming exactly when he died — has been difficult. But the full story has finally been pieced together..
Air Force selects 256 for promotion to captain
The Air Force on Monday announced it has chosen 256 officers for promotion to captain.
The Air Force is working on a new dress blues uniform — and it’s going old school
“We’d like to get back to a little more heritage on the jacket,” Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth Wright said. “It has kind of begun to mirror more of a business suit, more than a military service uniform."
GAO raps Pentagon, services for not properly tracking aviation mishap data
As the military faces an alarming uptick in plane crashes and other aviation-related mishaps, some fatal, the Government Accountability Office took the Army, Navy and Air Force to task for not tracking aviation mishap data in the same way.
