At 4-feet-10 and listed at 120 pounds, Senior Airman Bianca Mendoza is a great example of the phrase “small but mighty.” She currently holds the New Mexico’s Junior Women 56-kilogram powerlifting record in the 20-23 age bracket.

The Air Force’s 33rd Rescue Squadron, based on Okinawa, is getting a new hangar to match its new rides.

More than 250 dead trees and stumps — among the last reminders of a major typhoon that struck Guam last year — are slated for removal from Andersen Air Force Base in the coming months.

Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver the commencement address at the Air Force Academy’s graduation ceremony on May 30, officials announced Tuesday.

Maybe, with a little bit of exposure, kids will consider life as a soldier, sailor, airman, Marine or guardian. That was part of the mission last Friday at the Student Engagement and Career Day held at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., and at a career fair in New Bern, N.C.

More than two dozen rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft took to Kentucky’s skies on Saturday for the 35th annual Thunder Over Louisville.

MacDill Air Force Base in Florida wrangled with an uninvited guest Monday when an alligator was spotted hiding near the wheels of a KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft.

Another contingent of F-22 Raptors have landed on Okinawa as part of an Air Force plan to replace retired F-15 Eagles with frequent rotations of temporary replacement fighters.

Second Lt. James Chitika, a 2022 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, was found dead off base April 16 near railroad tracks in Del Rio, officials at Laughlin said in a news release. Chitika was struck by a train late that night.

An infestation of rats and mice at the dining hall at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana has forced base officials to shut down the facility for more than a week.