A United Airlines plane that had taken off from Newark International Airport in New Jersey and was headed toward Palm Beach International Airport in Florida, made an emergency landing at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to repair a mechanical problem.

Under Trump administration plans, the Commerce Department would be the leading U.S. agency in tracking space objects and alerting space users to potential collisions, taking over a role traditionally handled by the Air Force.

An airman assigned to a unit on RAF Alconbury led police on a pursuit along the A1 motorway near Sawtry, Cambridgeshire on Saturday, resulting in damage to one of their BMW X5 squad cars, road police said on Twitter.

The Tennessee Air National Guard is investigating a video that shows one of its members using a dinosaur hand puppet during a re-enlistment ceremony.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton says a six-time military commander will become its next installation commander.

Scott AFB, which is featured in several scenes throughout “Rampage," serves as the hub for the Air Force wing that tries to stop the giant animals from smashing skyscrapers and harming innocent people.

The arrival of the first two C-17 Globemaster III aircraft marked a milestone in a transformation as the North Carolina National Guard’s 145th Airlift Wing transitions from the C-130 Hercules.

A military spokeswoman confirms south Georgia residents weren't telling fibs or hallucinating: that was Air Force One they saw flying overhead.

American citizens living in southern Europe should now find it easier to meet and talk with recruiters about a career in the Air Force.

U.S. Air Force officials continue trying to ease concerns over an idea to expand military training airspace in southeastern New Mexico.

The commercial gate at Vance Air Force Base, Okla., was closed for more than five hours Thursday due to a bomb scare.

The commander of a support unit at America’s largest air base in South Korea has been relieved of her duties, an Air Force statement said.

A primary role of the National Guard posted to the Mexico border will be to provide added aerial surveillance, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection told Congress on Thursday.

Officials have reopened a gate closed at an Air Force base after a military dog alerted its handler to the presence of explosives. The gate was closed for less than two hours while ordnance experts checked the vehicle and confirmed there was no threat.

A pilot training to become an instructor was at fault in a crash in September at the Nevada Test and Training Range near Las Vegas that destroyed two A-10C Thunderbolt II attack jets, according to an Air Force investigation released Thursday.

Wind blew part of a parachute, which was cut away during a jump over Yokota Air Base, onto a tennis court at a junior high school in nearby Hamura City on April 10.

Airman 1st Class Timothy Wilsey pleaded guilty to the 2016 murder of Airman 1st Class Rhianda Dillard. Wilsey wrote in his journal that he had chosen to kill her because she seemed lonely and friendless.

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A noncommissioned officer in the Air Force whose profane video rant about black female subordinates at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada went viral earlier this year has been demoted, according to her personnel file.

California on Wednesday joined the plan to deploy National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, as federal and state officials face challenges in boosting security to stop illegal immigration.

Nearly 100 people who live near Fairchild Air Force Base have filed a federal class-action lawsuit against manufacturers of a firefighting foam that has contaminated the area’s water supply.

The years-long, drama-filled saga to replace an aging fleet of U.S. Air Force tankers continues to drag on.

The fighter, which was in development for more than 15 years and has battled technical and cost overruns, has been run out of the Joint Program Office in Crystal City, Virginia, with oversight of three versions of the stealth jet.

A U.S. Air Force investigator is accused of pulling a gun on a civilian. William Virgil Dent was arrested on charges including stalking and assault for the March 27 threat.

Gen. David Goldfein, the Air Force chief of staff, has ordered a probe into low-level, non-fatal aviation mishaps, asking investigators to determine whether underlying issues are responsible for an uptick in their frequency in recent years, Air Force officials said Tuesday.

The incident happened at around 5 p.m. Tuesday when a parachutist on a training mission from Yokota cut away his chute mid-flight and landed safely at the base, according to the 374th Airlift Wing.

Maj. Stephen Del Bagno's fellow aviators honored him with skywriting. Actress Brie Larson, who met Del Bagno when he consulted on the upcoming movie Captain Marvel, also tweeted her condolences.

No injuries were reported after a blaze broke out Monday at the home of the 7th Air Force in South Korea.

The Air Force is taking a three-pronged approach to addressing spare-parts issues threatening the F-35 stealth fighter jet program, according to its Air Education and Training Command.

Analysts say the Ohio base’s major employers should get more work as a result of the billions of dollars in new spending for the nation’s defense during the next two years.

2nd Lt. Travis Burch was charged earlier this month with conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman for encouraging service members to send him photos of their genitals from locations around the world and rewarding contributions with commemorative T-shirts, patches and coins.

The governor of Nevada ordered flags to be flown at half-staff to honor a U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds pilot who died this week in a training flight crash.

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About 250 Japanese demonstrators sang, passed out leaflets and held up signs Friday to protest the arrival of CV-22 Ospreys a day earlier at the home of U.S. Forces Japan.

Col. Thomas P. Sherman, 44, will take over the top leadership post at the 88th Air Base Wing in June, replacing Col. Bradley McDonald, who will retire after a 24-year career and return to his home state of Idaho, according to Wright-Patterson.

The Air Force Thunderbirds pilot killed in a training crash Wednesday in Nevada was a longtime aviator who joined the elite demonstration team this season after two and a half years flying F-35s in Florida, according to the Air Force.

A report of an active shooter at a Massachusetts Air Force base that prompted a brief lockdown and shelter-in-place order turned out to be a false alarm.

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A large crowd of photographers watched from the base perimeter as the Ospreys — capable of taking off like helicopters, then tilting their rotors to fly long distances as fixed-wing aircraft — touched down near parked C-130J cargo planes.

Airman 1st Class Bradley Hale was found unresponsive at a temporary lodging facility at Andersen Air Force Base and declared dead at 3 a.m. on March 27. The Air Force is still investigating the death.

After what insiders say was a surprise announcement by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, the Colorado Springs command that could send U.S. troops to the Mexican border was waiting for guidance.

A retired senior master sergeant, Rodriguez had been invited by Master Sgt. Charles Roberson to speak while the flag was folded during Roberson’s retirement ceremony at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., two years ago.

The Air Force announced Friday that it is more than doubling the maximum number of hours of free child care it offers families of deployed airmen.

Air Force Reserve pilots, maintainers, space operators and cyber specialists who want to quit the service will have to stay in uniform for at least six months under a plan to address critical skills shortages.

Jesse Furse will spend at least the next five years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to nine child pornography charges in federal court in Albuquerque on Tuesday.

The Wright brothers opened America’s first flying school for civilians here in 1910, but they struggled to find plane parts and deal with high winds. The school closed after about 10 weeks. A military depot came next. That lasted a lot longer.

The Air Force has affirmed the religious rights of a colonel who claimed he was wrongly disciplined for refusing to sign a certificate of appreciation for the same-sex spouse of one of his airmen last year.

A team of British divers hopes to raise 6,000 pounds ($8,430) on an all-or-nothing Kickstarter to find the plane and uncover the truth behind the crash.

The original plan for basing the Ospreys at Yokota would have added about 1,100 people to a population of 11,500. However, the squadron will initially bring only about 100 people, with that number growing as additional aircraft are deployed.

With the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II, the U.S. has fielded two of the world's most sophisticated, maneuverable and stealthy fighter jets. They both function as airborne shepherds of America's flock of older combat aircraft. Unfortunately, they have a difficult time communicating with each other.

Residents may experience aircraft noise and GPS unavailability April 1-6 when the 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group conducts boat operations in the Gulf of Mexico and Choctawhatchee Bay.

At its peak, the base was home to more than 5,000 people, nearly 20 percent of Bangor's total population.

Thirty F-15C Eagles from the Air National Guard’s Oregon-based 173rd Fighter Wing are scheduled to resume flight operations Thursday after being grounded over pilot safety concerns last week.

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Airmen from the 8th Fighter Wing at Kunsan Air Base are celebrating a legendary former commander the way they do every March — by growing Robin Olds mustaches.

The Air Force identified the deceased as Airman 1st Class Bradley G. Hale, 20, who was deployed to Guam from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana.

The U.S. Air Force may have to cut purchases of Lockheed Martin's F-35 by a third if it can't reduce operations and support costs by as much as 38 percent over a decade, according to an internal analysis.

About 40 U.S. airmen and one Air National Guard C-130 from West Virginia spent last week in Senegal teaching medical evacuation techniques to members of nine different regional air forces.

A pair of Navy fighter squadrons are arriving this week at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, completing the transfer of the USS Ronald Reagan strike group’s fixed-wing aircraft from their old home base near Tokyo.

The B-52s from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, will train with Australian F/A-18A Hornets, PC-9 aircraft and Joint Terminal Attack Controllers in military airspace near RAAF Williamtown.

The Air Force plans to put kids into the cockpit to teach them how to fly in hopes of sparking youth interest in aviation as the military struggles with a pilot shortage.

The future of the U.S. Air Force looks a lot like the unmanned flying mission conducted by the 188th Wing at Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith, according to Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson.

On leave from the Air Force Academy over Presidents Day weekend, Cadet Third Class Jack Bell played the hero twice in the span of 72 hours — first by finding a pilot whose plane went down in a mountainous area just west of Gilroy, then talking a suicidal man down from a freeway overpass.

Brigadier General Jeannie Leavitt, 57th Wing Commander, helped Larsen with her research for her role in Marvel's first movie focused on a solo female star.

For many years an F-15 on a pedestal has welcomed people to Robins Air Force Base, but now it is gone.

To help relieve its pilot shortage, the Air Force needs to lean on more bad guys. Check that: They need good guys who fly like bad guys. And one Newport News-based contractor has that job in its sights.

The U.S. military denied news reports that it was preparing to abandon bases in Qatar and Turkey after issuing a flurry of Twitter posts from multiple commands Sunday.

Fairchild will be the military's largest wide-bodied active duty base in the world and the 92nd Air Refueling Wing will field the largest tanker fleet in the Air Force.

An unauthorized vehicle crashed shortly after it gained access through the main gate at Travis Air Force Base in Northern California late Wednesday, fatally injuring the driver, according to a statement from the base public affairs.

The change would potentially see airmen trade their digitized tiger stripes designed to mimic a Vietnam-era uniform for a brown-and-green pattern made for use in Afghanistan.

Capt. Christopher "Tripp" Zanetis and Master Sgt. Christopher Raguso are remembered for their work as firefighters, as well as their service in the New York Air National Guard. They were among seven airmen killed in a Thursday helicopter crash in Iraq.

Once again, claims that groundwater pollution left behind by defense plants and other industries are causing cancers and other illnesses are pouring in from Tucson’s south side.

A military man arrested after a high-speed motorcycle chase through West Texas later apologized to police and area residents on Facebook.

Spangdahlem Air Base wrapped up a two-week exercise Thursday night, during which flying ramped up day and night. Loud sirens signaled for airmen to take cover under desks, among other training drills.

The United States is pivoting to a “great power competition” with China and Russia as it adds billions of dollars to restore military readiness and plans to add thousands of airmen to its ranks, a top Air Force leader says.

The Air Force is working with Senate and House defense committees to put language in a future defense authorization bill that would permit reimbursement for expenses incurred by communities impacted by tainted groundwater contamination from nearby bases.

Drafted in the third round by Minnesota after his junior year in 2016, Griffin Jax has found leadership at his base willing to work with him on scheduling to allow pursuit of his military and baseball ventures.

A curator said the four-engine bomber with the famous nose art of two women will be displayed in a “very dramatic and impressive” way at the world’s largest military aviation museum.

The discussion of a new Space Corps could play a role in proposed policy plans for the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act. Trump’s comments might have drawn quips referring to fictional, intergalactic fights, but some military leaders and lawmakers took the president’s pitch seriously.

Navy divers have recovered all salvageable debris after an emergency forced a fighter jet to drop its fuel tanks into a Japanese lake last month.

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson says President Donald Trump deserves the credit he's taking for helping to push down the cost for two new Air Force One jets.

The family of Clinton Field, an administrator in the U.S. Air Force, was found dead in their home early Tuesday in a triple homicide-suicide.

Though uncommon, getting discharged between 19 and 20 years on medical grounds does happen. It almost happened to Jerred Mitchell, a noncommissioned officer at Ramstein Air Base.

The Air Force is restricting media access to its bases and curtailing interviews with personnel while the service’s public affairs teams get retrained on operational security, according to new policy guidance.

A one-of-its-kind military program lets servicemembers far from the battlefields help their wounded comrades by forward-deploying their own blood.

The flyovers had been curtailed because of a Defense Department spending cap that forced units to reduce the amount of time military planes spend in the air.

Colorado communities near Peterson Air Force Base are dealing with something Dayton officials hope never happens here: thousands of people impacted by chemicals tainting water supplies.

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The new C-130J Super Hercules cargo planes have powerful engines and high-tech computer systems that give it more range and capability than the older models.

Eight cadets and three officers in the USAFA Mountaineering Club stumbled upon two lost, panicking hikers on their way down from the 14,274-foot summit of Torreys Peak in late October during in below freezing temperatures.

Growing up on a dairy farm in South Dakota had two big effects on Col. Leslie Maher, the new commander of the 375th Air Mobility Wing at Scott Air Force Base.

Police said the driver’s BMW 330 approached a traffic circle at high speed, lost control and hit four cars in the parking lot. A person in the back seat of one of the four cars sustained minor injuries.

As Boeing struggles to deliver on a controversy-laden contract that’s worth $40 billion in total, it has already had to swallow about $1 billion in previous cost overruns and has piled up $1.7 billion in accounting write-offs.

Japanese officials want the U.S. military to provide information about an antenna that fell from an Okinawa-based fighter jet late last month.

A wildfire on a remote Kirtland Air Force Base training range in the East Mountains has grown to 200 acres, Air Force officials said Sunday evening.

The Air Force liked Master Sgt. Bartek Bachleda's idea to prevent neck and back injuries for boom instructors so much that the McConnell airman won its first innovation competition.

In a video posted on a private Facebook forum, Tech. Sgt. Geraldine Lovely ranted about black female subordinates, whom she said were disrespectful.

New Mexico Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn is asking the Air Force to pay the state $25 million he says it will lose due to military flight training plans that threaten to dramatically downsize a deal to bring more than 100 wind turbines to Torrance County.

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Air Force T-6 Texan II training aircraft returned to the skies this week after a monthlong grounding instituted after pilots began experiencing “unexplained physiological events.”