According to Lt. Col. Raj Agrawal, 2nd Lt. Devin Rushing “fought through crashing waves, brought him back to shore, and worked with a life guard to resuscitate the young man.”

Airman 1st Class Benjamin Hutchins risked his life in an attempt to save two Fort Bragg paratroopers. For those heroics, and actions in a firefight days after the 2009 rescue attempt, Hutchins will receive the Silver Star.

Jean, 83, and her brothers Gordon, 84, and Charles, 81, all enlisted right out of high school. She and her brother Charles, who both served in the air force, will be on board the Patriot Flight that takes off October 1.

The move comes as temperatures cool and the summer watering season comes to a close.

Throughout the agricultural fields that dominate North Dakota,150 Minuteman III nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles are encased in silos in the ground.

Air Force Maj. Casey Bowen fulfilled his dream of swimming across the English Channel Monday, completing the 21-mile distance to France in 12 hours 9 minutes.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who inherited a tangled web of problems in the Air Force nuclear missile corps when he took over the Pentagon in 2015, says he sees reason to believe that a push for improvement is beginning to show results.

On Monday, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter toured Minot Air Force Base to press the case that if these facilities and weapons aren’t upgraded, the United States will no longer be able effectively to deter other nuclear-capable nations.

An Air Force colonel facing court-martial next month on multiple counts of sexual assault was found dead Sunday at his Colorado home, according to the Air Force.

The Air Force is investigating after another F-35A Lightning II fighter jet caught fire while preparing for takeoff on Friday.

The crisis stems from crushing budget constraints under the congressional sequester, too many nonflying tasks that distract pilots from their main job, and a perception that the Air Force doesn’t value them, several pilots said.

Four of the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System E-8 aircraft were grounded recently for inspection at Robins Air Force Base.

The Air Force is exploring a “full gamut” of options to tear down, privatize or spend millions of dollars to renovate as many as 89 historic brick homes at Wright-Patterson, which has nearly all of the existing government-owned homes in the military branch.

A senior airman accused of growing and selling marijuana is being investigated for possible military law violations to include mishandling of classified information, according to court documents.

Authorities say an F-35A fighter jet from Arizona caught fire during an engine start at an Air Force Base in Idaho.

Though it would no longer have repercussions on their military service, no Air Force athlete has publicly come out as gay or lesbian during their time with the Falcons.

SpaceX said Friday that evidence points to a large breach in the rocket's helium system during a routine prelaunch test that turned into a devastating fireball three weeks ago.

Military and civilian families won’t be returning to Turkey for the foreseeable future, as the Pentagon decided this week to change the status of permanent duty assignments there to one-year, unaccompanied tours, Air Force officials in Europe said Friday.

Charges against John Alan Deming include possession of marijuana and cocaine, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and possession of a firearm with a controlled substance.

An airman temporarily assigned to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam was found unresponsive on a beach Friday and was pronounced dead later the same day at a military hospital on the island, the Air Force said.

According to information from the Defense Department, the contract calls for Cessna to provide six 208B Grand Caravan EX turboprop airplanes to the U.S. Africa Command and Pacific Command areas for use in counterterrorism.

The new blaze broke out at 2 p.m. on the north side of the coastal, mostly undeveloped Vandenberg Air Force Base is unrelated to the other fire that's on the south side, base officials said.

Training missions were put on hold so personnel could respond to Tuesday's crash that killed one pilot and hurt another.

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Thousands of aircraft are lined up efficiently in the desert. Seen from above, their bright surfaces gleam like the skeletons of U.S. Air Power Past. They call it The Boneyard.

The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group started out as a place to store B-29 bombers and C-47 cargo planes after the end of World War II. Those are gone now, and time is running out on some other noteworthy planes.

Imagine being a serious aircraft buff, surrounded in your workplace by thousands of planes ranging from the biggest and baddest bombers to experimental models that never made it to full production. That's the case for many workers at The Boneyard.

Before senior Air Force officials settled on Raider, they launched a contest seeking ideas - and the results were decidedly mixed.

The blaze at Vandenberg Air Force Base was 70 percent contained, and base officials said they were hopeful that number would go up throughout the day.

A Marine Corps pilot was rescued Thursday afternoon after an AV-8B Harrier jet crashed into the sea off the coast of Okinawa.

Officials are notifying 267 patients who underwent gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures at an Air Force Academy clinic that they might have been exposed to contaminated medical equipment.

The pilot who died after ejecting from a U2 spy plane that crashed in northern California was identified Wednesday as Lt. Col. Ira S. Eadie.

The crash of a U-2 spy plane that killed one pilot and injured another during a Tuesday training mission could bolster arguments in favor of unmanned systems, as the long battle against the decades-old plane’s retirement winds closer to an end.

The customers filed a federal class-action lawsuit against companies that manufactured a military firefighting foam that's thought tied to contaminated wells. The foam was used for decades at Peterson Air Force Base.

The United States landed a B-1B Lancer in South Korea for the first time in 20 years Wednesday, labeling it the “closest flight ever to North Korea” by the supersonic bomber.

About 1,400 airmen are off the hook for millions of dollars in housing allowance they received in error while living off base in Germany, officials said.

Italian police are investigating the death of an airman found unconscious in his dorm room early Sunday morning, the 31st Fighter Wing said.

A 38-year-old ex-convict was sentenced to life in Nevada state prison without parole for his role in a plot by a mother of four to kill her husband, a U.S. Air Force service member from Guam, for his life insurance.

A pilot from Beale Air Force Base was killed and a second was injured Tuesday after a U-2 spy plane, one of the most famous aircraft of the Cold War era, crashed Tuesday morning near the Sutter Buttes.

Maintenance and high deployment rates are among the issues keeping Air Force combat fighter squadrons from meeting annual training requirements, according to a federal audit released Monday.

The name of America’s future stealth bomber, the B-21 “Raider,” honors the legacy of World War II's Doolittle Raid, one of the most innovative strategic missions in Air Force history, service Secretary Deborah Lee James announced Monday.

A wildfire burning on the south side of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California grew to 4,500 acres Monday despite an aggressive air and ground attack to stop flames from advancing.

In a ceremony at Fort Bragg, N.C., the 440th Airlift Wing's colors were furled, ceremonially marking its inactivation. Col. Karl Schmitkons, the wing's last commander, said it was a difficult goodbye.

Tens of thousands of Japanese nationals poured onto the flight line at Yokota Air Base over the weekend for a taste of American and military culture.

An Air Force official says a wildfire burning at a Central California base has forced the postponement of a satellite launch.

The Air Force on Friday grounded 13 of its new F-35A aircraft after discovering that insulation around coolant lines inside the fuel tanks was peeling and crumbling. Two F-35As belonging to Norway were also grounded with the same damaged lines, the Air Force said.

A new exhibit at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force that commemorates a dangerous mission conducted by the Air Force 20th Special Operations Squadron in November 1968.

The remaining members of the 440th Airlift Wing will mark the unit's pending inactivation this weekend in ceremonies on Fort Bragg and in downtown Fayetteville.

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In Senate committee testimony, the chiefs of the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and Navy complained about anemic budgets and painted bleak pictures of cash-strapped services with aging equipment, under-trained troops and a lack of preparations for war with a major world power such as Russia or China.

B-1B Lancers, flanked by U.S. and South Korean fighter jets, flew over Osan Air Base south of Seoul on Tuesday in a show of force and solidarity with Seoul four days after the North conducted its fifth and most powerful nuclear test.

For nearly 10 years, Tech. Sgt. David Nafe was largely in the dark as he fought against memory loss, migraines, mood swings and stigma.

Boeing faces a dogfight with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon for the contract to produce about 350 jets through the T-X advanced trainer program. The winning entry would replace the aging T-38 fleet.

The T-X is designed to replace the T-38 , which was first built by Northrop Grumman in 1959. Although production of that trainer ended in 1972, it has remained one of the main means of training military pilots.

A fire suppressant foam linked to the shutdown of two drinking water wells at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base injured a firefighter during a training incident and the Defense Department has launched an investigation to determine how widespread the problem is across the nation.

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Baseball players and fans at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo have something to cheer about: a new ballpark.

New role would put him in charge of the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons and give him full control over the military's satellites and missile defense systems.

Roscoe Brown, who died July 2 at the age of 94, got his wish Friday at the Intrepid Museum, where a band played C Jam Blues and other jazz favorites, and a cross-section of New Yorkers gathered on the deck of the massive aircraft carrier to remember the pilot, educator and activist.

With a measured cadence, squadron by squadron, 117 names were read off Friday evening at the Air Force Academy. It's an annual tradition at the academy, where the school pauses each September to remember its dead.

Out of an original pool of 19 bases, the U.S. Air Force is considering Moody Air Force Base for mission control and launch and recovery units in support of the new MQ-9 Reaper Remotely Piloted Aircraft Wing.

Despite a catalog of high-profile failures in production and Congressional detractors lining up to criticize it, politicians are scrambling to have the multirole fighter based in their respective states.

Religious content in a flag-folding speech during a retirement ceremony at Travis Air Force Base had nothing to do with why the speaker was removed from the ceremony, an Air Force investigation has found.

A Wisconsin district court has indicted the chief of the U.S. Air Force Fire Service, accusing him of stealing more than $130,000 intended for charities and using those funds to pay for vacations, gambling and paying off credit card debt.

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is on the short list to become a new home base for drone pilots.

Lt. Gen. John "Jay" Raymond will pin on a fourth star and take the helm of the Peterson Air Force Base command, which oversees the nation's military satellites and heads Air Force computer warfare operations.

Freddie J. Dawkins, 81 received the Department of the Navy Career Service Award signed by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus at a ceremony honoring his 63 years of service in the armed forces and as a civil servant.

Charles Amos Wilson III, a support member of the 461st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, is charged with the premeditated murder in the fatal shooting of his fiancee, who was 8-1/2 months pregnant.

Three military veterans once involved in the U.S. drone program have thrown their support behind a Yemeni man’s legal fight to obtain details about why his family members were killed in a 2012 strike.

The ground shook as the U.S. Air Force B-52 blasted off from this British airfield on a 1,000-mile flight to the Czech Republic, where airmen were calling in close air support.

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Family members and friends shared their fond memories of Elaine Harmon Wednesday morning, while acknowledging the long fight it took for the World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots veteran to finally be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

Air Force guidelines call for most accident investigations to be finished within a month, but Air Combat Command says the probe of the June 2 crash near the Colorado Springs Airport is more complex than that timeline would allow.

The U.S. Air Force's program to develop and field a new intercontinental ballistic missile to replace the aging Minuteman III in the nuclear arsenal is now projected to cost at least $85 billion, about 36 percent more than a preliminary estimate by the service.

Three long-range U.S. Air Force bombers are now in the United Kingdom to take part in a NATO war game intended to exercise alliance air power, U.S. European Command said.

Generals are rarely brought to trial within the military justice system, much less convicted, and punishment is often just a demotion in rank. Many members of Congress would prefer that independent military prosecutors handle the cases rather than commanders.

Though it’s only 13 miles northeast of the Strip, Nellis might as well be on another planet. Many who now live in Las Vegas weren’t around when it took root, before neon consumed Las Vegas Boulevard.

On the island of Kwajalein in the South Pacific, the Air Force has hired Lockheed Martin to build a billion-dollar facility projecting a huge radar wedge 1,800 miles into space to find orbiting debris.

Air Force Capt. Tim Finley was sure he’d broken a bone. Somehow, he got up off the Mongolian steppe and dusted himself off, trying not to look injured. He wasn’t about to quit the Mongol Derby. His mission was too important.

The Elsik brothers -- Flint, a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, and Michael, a sergeant in the Air Force stationed at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico -- will promote to the pay grade of E6.

A Virginia town is honoring Korean War vets on Labor Day as a celebration of their willingness to answer the call of duty and transition from industry to national service.

The Pentagon is believed to have spent about $400 billion on the F-35, is roughly 70 percent over budget, and faces scores of problems that include lack of a working gun.

Textron, the last U.S. company to build cluster bombs, announced in a securities filing this week that one of its subsidiaries would no longer produce the controversial and internationally derided munition, citing dwindling demand.

Gary West began his journey on Aug. 1 in Lubec, Maine, and is cycling to Key West, Fla., on a hybrid trek bicycle as he travels with 16 U.S. flags representing the heroes and their families.

Air Force Master Sgt. Travis Shaw didn't expect to need to use his medical training last month for an emergency situation in his own house.

Security officials at Scott Air Force Base are preparing for big changes on Sept. 15, when any Missouri visitors to the base will need identification beyond just a state drivers license.

The concept of logistics readiness is not new to the Air Force, but studies authored in the early 2000s suggested merging two separate functions, supply and transportation, as a way of upgrading a system whose roots dated back to World War II. The 436th LRS came into being with that merger in 2003.

The jury determined Wednesday that Dumitru Martin bribed a contracting officer at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield for pacts to provide storage containers and other products and services to the U. S. Air Force in Romania.

The last remaining United States manufacturer of cluster bombs is ending production of the controversial weapon, citing reduced orders for the internationally banned munition. The decision by Rhode Island-based Textron Systems follows a White House order last May to block the transfer of a Textron shipment of CBU-105 cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, a move first reported by Foreign Policy.

Twelve Japanese students from an Okinawan vocational school worked across Kadena Air Base to broaden their English skills, learn about American business and better prepare themselves for the workforce.

The Air Force is moving toward buying new planes for J-STARS, but Isakson said it’s not happening fast enough.

Missouri workers may need passports to work at Whiteman Air Force Base in coming months.

A bipartisan contingent of the state's congressional delegation is urging the federal government to relocate F-16 squadrons to Holloman Air Force Base and expand training efforts at the southern New Mexico post.

The Air Force pilots who made a low-altitude pass over Bank of America Stadium and uptown Charlotte on Monday have been restricted from flight duties as the military and the Federal Aviation Administration investigate the incident.

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A major U.S. air expeditionary wing in Southwest Asia has had to significantly increase its operations to ensure all necessary cargo is getting into theater to support the coalition against the Islamic State group, sometimes in the face of danger, officials said.

Former Sen. John Edwards has pledged to support hundreds of U.S. sailors, Marines and airmen who say they were sickened by radioactive fallout from the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.

Airmen at McConnell Air Force Base perform the most KC-135 refueling missions in the Air Force.

Dee Dowis, whose mastery of Air Force’s option offense made him a Heisman Trophy finalist, died early Monday morning in a traffic accident near Atlanta.

Air Force and FAA officials are looking into a low-altitude flight by four military jets over Charlotte, N.C.'s Bank of America Stadium Monday morning that startled residents and office workers.

The goal of the conference is to come up with long-term solutions that would impact the nation and its security.

The secretary of the Air Force is pushing to award a Medal of Honor to the first Connecticut native to die in the war in Afghanistan, based on new evidence 14 years after his death.

Two-term U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, who represents the 8th District, calls the departure of the 440th Airlift Wing on Fort Bragg “a short-sighted decision” that has spawned a series of troubling issues. The Army has long opposed Air Force plans to shut down the 440th, fearing that it could compromise training.

A person was rescued Thursday from the hood of a submerged pickup near Trapper Creek by an Air National Guard helicopter pararescue crew.

A wildfire at Joint Base Lewis-McChord is sending unhealthy amounts of smoke into surrounding community.