The drills come a year after the Philippines approved a wider U.S. military presence in the archipelago, which China opposed. U.S. Marines and their Filipino counterparts have staged joint combat drills near southern Taiwan, a flashpoint in the Washington-Beijing military rivalry. The Air Force's new PT uniform has hit basic training and will roll out to AAFES shops later this year. A new risk worksheet introduced by Air Education and Training Command aims to get to the root of maintainer mishaps. American and Filipino forces launched their largest combat exercises in years Monday in a show of allied firepower that has alarmed Beijing. A search for carcinogens at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, found low levels of contamination at two sites. No injuries were reported after a T-6A training jet made an emergency landing Wednesday at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. Maj. Gen. Phillip Stewart pleaded not guilty to multiple charges, including two counts of sexual assault, and will face court-martial June 17. Airmen are now slated to start receiving new PT uniforms 18 months after they first expected to get the new threads. The Space Force's first "Red Skies" orbital warfare exercise tested whether guardians could command and control multiple satellites amid simulated threats. Load More