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A top military commander said Friday he will push the Air Force to move faster to get firefighting cargo planes fitted with new tanks after some flights to fight the California wildfires were stalled.
An Air Force colonel was named the new commander at the air base where a B-52 bomber was mistakenly armed with six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and flown to a Louisiana base, the military said Tuesday.
Shaun Carney threw two touchdown passes and Bobby Giannini returned a fumble 85 yards for a score early in the fourth quarter to lead Air Force to a 20-12 win over Wyoming on Saturday.
The Air Force said Friday it would punish 70 airmen involved in the accidental, cross-country flight of a nuclear-armed B-52 bomber following an investigation that found widespread disregard for the rules on handling such munitions.
The Air Force is planning to fire at least five officers for an incident in which nuclear-armed missiles were mistakenly loaded on a B-52 bomber and flown across the U.S. — the worst known violation of nuclear security rules in decades.
The faded green Soviet-era Mi-17 helicopter hovered 30 feet off the ground while veteran pilot Amin Jan tested the controls. Then he zoomed upward and banked left, filling the side window with a view of Kabul's mud-brick homes below.
The Civil Air Patrol has removed its national commander after investigating complaints that another patrol member took Air Force tests for him.
Relying on a new Air Force analysis of radar and satellite images, crews looking for millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett combed the rugged Nevada backcountry on foot and by air.
Relying on new leads from Air Force experts, crews looking for famed aviator Steve Fossett plan to comb a rugged area near Death Valley by air and foot, authorities said.
Three weeks after the Air Force began investigating the mistaken arming of a B-52 bomber with nuclear weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked for an outside inquiry led by a retired general who once commanded the strategic bomber fleet, an official said Thursday.
Three suspected Islamic terrorists from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing "profound hatred of U.S. citizens" were arrested on suspicious of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on U.S. facilities in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The Army and Air Force are considering disciplinary action against seven officers — including four generals — who violated ethics rules by assisting a Christian group in the production of a fundraising video.
Firefighters faced a threat of strong wind gusts Monday as they battled a huge wildfire in central Utah, where several small communities were evacuated.
The Army fell short of its recruiting goal for May, its first significant slip in two years. The active-duty Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force met or surpassed their May targets, although the Army National Guard and Air National Guard fell far short.
Two of the newest — and most expensive — fighters in the U.S. Air Force wrapped up a three-month deployment and roared out of Japanese skies Thursday, completing the F-22 stealth fighter's debut on the international stage.
An Air Force veteran has filed a federal claim after an operation at a Veterans Administration hospital in which a healthy testicle was removed instead of a potentially cancerous one.
At least 25 bombers being escorted by the Tuskegee Airmen over Europe during World War II were shot down by enemy aircraft, according to a new Air Force report.
Lucy was drowning and turning blue, so Randy Gurchin recalled his Air Force training on mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
A military jury ignored an Air Force captain's plea for leniency Wednesday, sentencing him to 50 years in prison for raping four men and attempting to rape two others.
The Brigham Young players leaped and bounded off the court to a chorus of boos from the Air Force student section. It was the precise sound the Cougars wanted to hear. BYU knocked off No. 25 Air Force 62-58 on Tuesday night, ending the Falcons' 30-game winning streak at Clune Arena.
An Air Force drill sergeant who posed nude for Playboy magazine has been removed from active duty, she and the Air Force said Wednesday. Michelle Manhart, who appeared in a six-page spread in Playboy's February issue, said she got word Friday that she was removed from "extended active duty" and was also told that she was demoted from staff sergeant to senior airman.
The White House on Thursday defended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi against Republican criticism that her desire to fly in an Air Force transport plane is an extravagance.
Republicans on Wednesday assailed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's request for access to an Air Force transport plane as an extravagance, though former Speaker Dennis Hastert flew in a military jet as well.
An Air Force staff sergeant who posed nude for Playboy magazine has been relieved of her duties while the military investigates, officials said Thursday.
Fed up with unnecessary gold-plated fighter jet programs, the service's impatience with counter-insurgency and its anti-China rhetoric, back in August I proposed the disbanding of the U.S. Air Force.
What it does on its own -- strategic bombing -- isn't suited to modern warfare. What it does well -- its tactical support missions -- could be better managed by the Army and Navy. It's time to break up the Air Force.
The inspection was covered in the Minot Air Force Base's own official publication and can be seen online
The key base used by the US military for air strikes in the Middle East is being made ready for a war against Iran, a Scottish newspaper reported Monday.
Russian strategic bombers began on October 16 a series of long-range training flights over the Arctic region, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and the Black Sea with simulated bomber raids and missile launches missiles at testing grounds in northern and southern Russia.
Air Force reaction to the unauthorized transfer of armed nuclear missiles from Minot to Barksdale.
For Tech. Sgt. Ralph Binion III, 366th Services Squadron food services, a year-long deployment in Afghanistan is unlike any other deployment he's experienced during his time in the Air Force.
The Air Force said Friday it would punish 70 airmen involved in the accidental, cross-country flight of a nuclear-armed B-52 bomber following an investigation that found widespread disregard for the rules on handling such munitions.
WASHINGTON — The Air Force said Friday it has punished 70 airmen involved in the accidental, cross-country flight of a nuclear-armed B-52 bomber following an investigation that found widespread disregard for the rules on handling such munitions.
The Air Force has decided to relieve at least five of its officers of command and is considering filing criminal charges in connection with the Aug.
Trying to leapfrog 20 years into the future, Northrop is stating its vision for the next generation after the upcoming future strike aircraft for the USAF.
Neighbors in the south area of Mountain Home were somewhat surprised Tuesday evening when a special operations team with the Mountain Home Police Department conducted a drug raid and arrested seven adults and one juvenile for a variety of drug-related charges.
today we have an anti-war movement that largely fails to point out connections between war and patriarchy or gendered domestic inequalities. To galvanize organizing against militarism to its full potential, we must question its gender-blind approach.
As unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, become a staple of modern military operations, their uses and forms have grown more varied. Today they range from slingshot-launched spybots to global guardians.
Lieutenant General Bruce Wright, commander of the roughly 50,000 US forces in Japan, Washington's biggest ally in Asia, said in an interview this week the Iraq War is reducing the availability of US troops and equipment to meet other contingencies and eating up funds that might b …
A retired lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve who served with the Navy's Supervisor of Salvage questioned in a little-noticed editorial Sunday why six active nuclear armed cruise missiles were being transferred to an active bomber base that "just happens to be the staging ar …
Given that strategic Tu-160 bombers have resumed their regular patrol, Russia will probably have to revive their full-scale serial production at Kazan Aircraft Production Association, Interfax-AVN reported. "In Kazan, there are the planes [Tu-160], which construction hasn't …
This thing is amazing, check out the picture. Just east of the entrance to Bruneau Dunes State Park is the a-MAZE-ing site of Quey's Maze & Pumpkin Patch. Here, visitors can wind their way through a corn maze owned by Quey and Merleen Johns...
The RAF has launched an investigation after a jet accidentally dropped a 14kg practice bomb during an exercise.
As Gen. John P. Abizaid began his second year at U.S. Central Command in July 2004, the simple solutions he had hoped would defeat improvised explosive devices in Iraq seemed further away than ever.
While waiting to be confirmed by the White House for a top civilian post at the Air Force last year, Charles D. Riechers was out of work and wanted a paycheck.
The saga of the V-22 — the battles over its future on Capitol Hill, a performance record that is spotty at best, a long, determined quest by the Marines to get what they wanted — demonstrates how Washington works (or, rather, doesn't).
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