Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri opened its two-day WOW Air Show on Saturday. Among the weekend’s highlights was a flyover by B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and the ACC A-10 Thunderbolt II Demonstration Team.
Saturday morning broke hot and muggy, not unlike the day 78 years ago when 25 men climbed about a converted B-17 bomber to fly from Greenland to New York after the end of World War II. But the plane never made it.
Senior Airman Brennon Richard Edward Washington denied charges against him of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor.
The U.S. Air Force has pulled a pair of CV-22 Osprey tiltrotors from drills involving U.S. Marines and Japanese troops in southern Japan later this month.
Suicide rates among troops in the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps for the first quarter of 2024 topped pandemic-era rates while the Army saw a significant dip, according to new data released by the Defense Department.
The American and Japanese governments agreed to withhold from local authorities the details of a contaminated water spill last year at the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo, a Japanese newspaper reported Wednesday, citing unnamed officials.
Misawa Air Base, home to two squadrons of F-16 Fighting Falcons, welcomed a new commander Monday who’s no stranger to the base in northern Japan.
The daughters of two Air Force pilots who went missing during the Vietnam War are spearheading an effort to properly update and designate the status of names on the Courts of the Missing monument in Honolulu.
Brig. Gen. Thomas Palenske has also turned his official Facebook page into a morale booster, in which he lauds the achievements of individual airmen, comments on the weather, wildlife and other aspects of life on Guam.
Air Force Lt. Gen. Ricky Rupp, commander of U.S. Forces Japan, blasted Chinese, Russian and North Korean aggression during a change-of-command ceremony for the 374th Airlift Wing based at Yokota Air Base, while stressing the wing’s vital role and the importance of the U.S.-Japan partnership.
Cost projections for the Air Force’s new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile have grown to about $140.9 billion, or 81% more than originally forecasted four years ago.
Four US Air Force and one South Korean air force C-130J Super Hercules airlifters flew over the Korean Peninsula for the first five-transport aircraft sortie last month, according to an Air Force news release.
More job specialties considered “extremely demanding” by the Air Force and Space Force will be eligible starting in October for special duty assignment pay, and more of it.
The Air Force will permanently deploy 36 F-15EX Eagles to Okinawa as part of a broader plan to station more advanced U.S. fighter aircraft across Japan over the next several years, the Defense Department announced.
An Air Force staff sergeant was killed, and five other airmen were injured in a Humvee wreck on Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, service officials said Wednesday.
The governor of Okinawa was expected to file protests regarding two U.S. service members that were indicted for alleged sexual crimes this year.
CV-22 Osprey aircraft resumed flights from this airlift hub in western Tokyo on Tuesday, 216 days after a crash off Japan’s southern coast killed eight airmen.
The Iowa National Guard is assisting in cleanup efforts by clearing debris after historic flooding ravaged the state last week.
The Air Force’s warrant officer training school is open for business, marking a return to the service after nearly 70 years.