Small fleet, fewer flights weaken Army aircraft training, report saysThe main trends point to fewer helicopters, fewer flight hours, but more drones and aircraft available for missions.By Todd South7 days ago
Air Force’s ‘WiFi in the sky’ provides a backbone for Gaza airdropsThe Air Force's E-11A airborne communications relay jets are providing a crucial backbone for humanitarian aid missions over Gaza.By Courtney Mabeus-Brown3 months ago
Centenarian vets are sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years laterFew witnesses remain who remember the storied Allied assault and history’s biggest amphibious invasion.3 months ago
Last WWII vets converge on Omaha Beach for D-Day and fallen friendsVets, many of them centenarians and likely returning for one last time, pilgrimaged to what was the bloodiest of five Allied landings on June 6, 1944.3 months ago
Air Force promotes more than 1,300 lieutenant colonels this yearMore than 77% of eligible Air Force majors nabbed a promotion to lieutenant colonel on their first try.By Courtney Mabeus-Brown3 months ago
Parachute jump over Normandy kicks off D-Day 80th anniversaryWWII vets are converging on France to revisit old memories, make new ones and hammer home a message D-Day survivors have repeated time and time again.4 months ago
The Air Force’s pool of master sergeants is growing in 2024More than 18.6% of eligible airmen will promote to master sergeants in 2024, up from 17.3% in 2023.By Courtney Mabeus-Brown4 months ago
A jacket, a coin, a letter: Relics of Omaha Beach tell the D-Day storyEighty years ago, Allied soldiers crossed the choppy waters of the English Channel to land on Normandy beaches to defeat Hitler’s regime.By Frank A. Blazich Jr., Smithsonian Institution, The Conversation4 months ago
He was first to report V-E Day — then he was fired for itAP war correspondent Edward Kennedy landed the biggest scoop of his career — while simultaneously ruining it.By Claire Barrett4 months ago
Sierra Nevada wins $13B contract to build Air Force ‘doomsday plane’The Air Force's E-4B, which the president would use to direct forces during nuclear war, is nearing the end of its life and will be replaced by the SAOC.By Stephen Losey5 months ago
Remains of WWII pilot identified decades after fatal bombing missionArmy Air Forces 2nd Lt. John E. McLauchlen Jr. was killed during a World War II bombing mission in Southeast Asia.5 months ago
Fewer Air Force captains promoted to major as competition stiffensNearly 2,000 airmen were chosen to rise to the rank of major in 2024.By Rachel S. Cohen5 months ago