U.S. Sen. John Thune says Air Force officials told him that bases currently home to units of the bomber fleet will likely be chosen to host the B-21 Raider. Ellsworth is currently home to the 34th and 37th bomb squadrons.

Congress probably won’t approve a new round of base closures this year, but it could happen next year, an advocate for Robins Air Force Base told community leaders Tuesday.

An Air Force Academy senior faces a hearing on charges of sexual assault and abusive sexual contact.

Air Force veteran Billy Marshall received a Purple Heart and a Meritorious Service Award, but he lost part of his left arm and leg. But, he has Lucy.

The F-35 fighter jets’ flawed ejection seats, which Air Force officials said in May had been fixed, still pose a “serious” risk that will probably injure or kill nearly two dozen pilots, according to an internal Air Force safety report that service officials withheld from the press.

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The U.S. Air Force's 70th birthday celebration got under way in the nation's capital Sunday night with the addition of nearly four dozen new airmen on Air Force Night at Nationals Park.

President Donald Trump honored the resolve of the nation's Air Force on Friday, warning foes and international terrorist groups that the U.S. military would respond to any threats.

Seventy years ago Monday, the U.S. Air Force was born, and some men still living in Middle Georgia were there to see it happen. They say it wasn’t all that exciting.

Polish authorities are investigating the theft of U.S. military equipment from a cargo container stopped at a Polish railway station, according to media reports.

High-ranking academy officials touted the school's mission as they walked with DeVos across campus, highlighting the athletic center, airfield, and other student spaces, such as the CyberWorx innovation center.

Air Force Gen. John E. Hyten, commander of Strategic Command, told reporters that while he was not in a position to confirm it, he assumes from the size of the underground explosion and other factors that it was a hydrogen bomb.

He chatted with nuclear missile launch officers in their underground command post, but there was no talk of unleashing nuclear hell on North Korea. A subtle, unspoken message of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' visit to this nuclear weapons base Wednesday was that America is a mature nuclear power not intimidated by threats from an upstart North Korean leader who flaunts his emerging nuclear muscle.

The new Air Force One planes will replace the VC-25A aircraft currently used as the presidential planes, which have been used since President George H.W. Bush’s administration in 1990.

Holloman Air Force Base officials say their array of flight training areas in southern New Mexico is outdated and that some need to be expanded, reshaped and relocated – changes that would have jet fighters flying over sparsely populated rural areas not now used for that purpose.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Wednesday he has become convinced that the United States must keep all three parts of its nuclear force, rather than eliminate one, as he once suggested.

The Air Force dropped more than 500 weapons in Afghanistan last month — the largest monthly tally since 2012 — continuing an uptick seen throughout this year, according to newly released military data.

A U.S. airman was pronounced dead after being found unconscious at work, Air Force officials said Wednesday.

After having already spent $265 million toward buying new planes for J-STARS at Robins Air Force Base, the Air Force may be rethinking the plan.

An Air Force Academy cadet got 30 months in prison after he pleaded guilty Tuesday to possession of child pornography and secretly videotaping women in the shower.

Cadet Jacob Cook, a senior at the academy, has been charged with violating three articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice for wrongfully recording people without their knowledge and possession of child pornography

The relative calm inside the aircraft — where a team of nine crew and researchers worked near constantly to monitor and relay information to federal authorities — seemed at odds with Hurricane Irma’s true nature, as the storm slammed into the Florida Keys about 10,000 feet below and moved over the state’s mainland.

The U.S. Air Force has sent more than 400 medical personnel to Orlando, Fla., for Hurricane Irma relief efforts.

As Hurricane Irma chews up Florida and the southeast, a dozen C-17 military troop transport planes from South Carolina are waiting out the storm in the safety of the Missouri's Scott Air Force Base.

An airman was killed early Friday in a motorcycle accident on Guam.

Activists protesting an alleged role in drone operations at Ramstein Air Base held a final demonstration on Saturday by forming a human chain from the Haus des Burgers in Ramstein-Miesenbach to just outside Gate 5 of the air base.

It was a celebration of centennials Friday when Dyess Air Force Base’s 7th Bomb Wing had a 100th anniversary celebration honoring three on-base squadrons that have each served for a full century this year.

Robert Dean Brice, an active-duty Alabama airman stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base, was arrested Thursday for soliciting minors younger than 14 online.

Lt. Col. Eric Schultz was flying an unspecified aircraft at about 6 p.m. over the Nevada Test and Training Range, approximately 100 miles northwest of Nellis Air Force Base.

Air Force aircraft that detect radioactive fallout and track ballistic missiles are operating on Okinawa in the wake of North Korea’s sixth nuclear test and ahead of an anticipated intercontinental ballistic missile launch.

For six days, Maj. Leonard Clark and five other airmen drifted in the Pacific Ocean as the sun beat down on their bruised and bloodied bodies. They would become just some of the POW/MIA servicemembers of World War II.

Two Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II attack jets crashed Wednesday during a training flight over a Nevada military range. The pilots of both planes ejected safely and were being evaluated Thursday.

For a century, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s legend was being the birthplace of the military test pilot, where foreign aircraft and missile technology secrets were discovered, and of long denied rumors of space aliens and UFO captivity.

Air-traffic controllers from the 374th Operational Support Squadron, working out of a tower on the east side of Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo, are responsible for the skies surrounding Japan’s tallest mountain and the airspace over the city’s western suburbs.

Leaders at Joint Base Charleston said they are monitoring the approaching Hurricane Irma and are reviewing checklists of storm preparations.

Several mothers whose children were exposed to contaminated water at the former Pease Air Force Base urged the Task Force on the Seacoast Pediatric Cancer Cluster to recommend ongoing medical monitoring in its final report.

The crash occurred on June 23 prior to the Dayton Air Show, and injured two airmen. The F-16 sustained significant damage, and the Thunderbirds cancelled all performances at the air show.

An Air Force medic, known only as "Rob," helped guide a group of hikers away from the Eagle Creek fire. He set up accountability, walked the line of escaping hikers and helped keep people's spirits up.

It may cost up to $2 billion to clean up toxic firefighting chemicals that have leaked from more than 400 U.S. military installations, including Fairchild Air Force Base, a group of Democratic senators said Tuesday in a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee.

The Iraqi air force on Wednesday identified a pilot killed in a training accident this week in Arizona, where the U.S. military is training the country’s pilots to take on Islamic State.

The inaugural Enlisted Remotely Piloted Aircraft Pilot Selection Board met in February and selected 30 enlisted airmen from about 200 applicants, according to an Air Force press release. Tech. Sgt. Courtney was among the nine technical sergeants selected for fiscal year 2017-18.

“The A-10 has done a lot of great work for the Air Force and for the ground troops that we support. We want them to hear those engines and know that help is on the way, so we’re trying to keep them,” Wilson said.

America loves a boy band. But not just any boy band. This particular group is a cadre of fresh-faced, rosy-cheeked, clean-cut and slim U.S. Air Force Academy cadets known as In the Stairwell.

An Air Force training program that had Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson host visiting units based elsewhere is ending this month.

The United States wants to spend more than $30 million to upgrade military facilities in Turkey, including the strategic Incirlik Air Base and a discrete outpost used by soldiers operating quietly along NATO’s southern flank.

Luke Air Force Base officials say they have ended altitude restrictions on their F-35 fighter jets put in place after several pilots reported symptoms of oxygen deprivation.

The National Marine Fisheries Service has given approval to a five-year Air Force plan for bombing practice at sea off Kauai that reduces munitions used and increases monitoring for impacts to whales and dolphins.

A Moroccan national remains under house arrest after trying to get into Aviano Air Base by using an ID card bearing the name of an active-duty servicemember.

A former senior airman suspected of setting off a pipe bomb outside an Air Force recruiting office in Oklahoma has been declared mentally incompetent to stand trial on federal explosives charges.

Florida has sent airmen with the 920th Rescue Wing, fish and wildlife officers, state Urban Search and Rescue teams and other volunteers to Houston to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey.

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Col. Jason E. Bailey will lead the sole U.S. Air Force fighter wing in Germany and more than 4,500 airmen after a change-of-command ceremony here Tuesday, where he took the mantle from Col. Joseph D. McFall.

An Air Force officer who engaged in an unprofessional relationship with an airman 20 years his junior while commanding a small expeditionary base in Africa will be forced out of the service following a general court-martial last week.

The Air Force is hoping some retired pilots will return temporarily to active duty to serve in staff positions in a move aimed at keeping its current middle-ranked pilots in the air, the service’s top civilian said Friday.

Filmmaker Ken Burns gave Air Force Academy cadets a sneak-peek at his new 10-part documentary on the Vietnam War Thursday night.

Air Force officials have proposed changes in how F-22 Raptor fighter jets take off and land on JBER's runways. The goal is to give pilots more training airtime and reduce congestion in the airspace, officials say.

Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems has been awarded a $900 million contract to develop the nation’s next-generation air-launched nuclear cruise missile.

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At the direction of Congress, the Department of Defense is implementing sweeping reforms to how the military’s direct health care system is administered, with the Defense Health Agency gaining authorities that long have resided with the surgeons general of the Army, Navy and Air Force.

The U.S. Air Force moved forward Wednesday with a program to extend the U.S. arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles, when it awarded Lockheed Martin and Raytheon separate $900 million contracts to start work on a cruise missile that is meant to be fired from a B-52 or B-2 bomber.

The U.S. Air Force is considering changes in fighter jet runway use at Anchorage's Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson that officials say could lead to more efficiency and safety in the airspace but expose several hundred residents in the nearby neighborhood of Mountain View to more jet noise.

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Gen. David Goldfein, the Air Force chief of staff, bagged groceries at the commissary in the mid-1970s while he was a teenager living at Ramstein. Even as Goldfein’s career has taken him around the world, he stops to see his old boss any chance he gets.

Air Force Maj. Mario Cooper, 37, of SeaTac, was killed when he fell several hundred feet and landed in a glacial crevasse near Coleman Pinnacle on the east flank of Mount Baker, a 10,781-foot volcano east of Bellingham, said Whatcom County Undersheriff Jeff Parks.

A high-stakes competition to rebuild a critical component of America's aging nuclear arsenal was narrowed down to two companies on Monday, as the Air Force awarded Boeing and Northrop Grumman the next phase of a contract to replace the Minuteman ground-based inter-continental ballistic missile.

SOCOM, headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base, is looking for volunteer drone pilots for a new research effort called ThunderDrone.

New Air Force Academy boss Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria isn't judging his 4,000 cadets by what he's seen so far since returning to Colorado Springs.

When the last Air Force-ordered F-22 Raptor left Lockheed Martin in early 2012, many assumed it was the beginning of the end for one of the Air Force's signature fighter jets.

U.S. drone pilots now routinely launch missiles at what the Pentagon calls “danger-close” distances to proxy ground forces fighting Islamic State in densely populated cities.

An MQ-1 Predator crashed late Thursday in southern Turkey after taking off from Incirlik Air Base, the military said Friday.

Airmen took a break today to celebrate the second annual Diversity and Inclusion Day on base.

A group of protesters who have scheduled a series of demonstrations against drone operations allegedly directed from Ramstein Air Base hope to meet and talk with airmen and other military personnel in the area during September protests.

Capt. Brett DeVries was practicing bombing and strafing runs at Grayling Air Gunnery Range when on his second pass, his gun malfunctioned and the canopy blew off his aircraft. The wind then caught in his helmet and slammed his head against his seat.

The sky above the Pacific Northwest swarmed with fighter, bomber and transport aircraft last week in a display of not only America’s military power, but its commitment to working with partner nations.

"Keep em' flying. Keep em' climbing," Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson, the academy's first-ever female superintendent, told Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria after she transferred command in a ceremony Friday.

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The Ramstein Air Force Sergeants Association and the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center Detachment 4 booster club hosted the annual Color Run at Ramstein on Saturday.

Members of the Whiteman Air Force Base gathered Friday morning as John J. Nichols, commander of the 509th Bomb Wing, was promoted from colonel to brigadier general.

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Former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush — who included North Korea with Iran and Iraq in his "Axis of Evil" — also both used the "fight tonight" phrase while discussing North Korea.

Maj. Gen. Jay B. Silveria will succeed Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson in a ceremony Friday. Johnson is retiring after four years.

A multiteam exercise at Langley Air Force Base, dubbed Llama Fury 3.0, allows explosive ordnance disposal teams from East Coast Air Force bases to compare notes as they tackle different problems.

U.S. pilots flying combat sorties against Islamic State and al-Qaida offshoots may soon be directed to hit "pop-up" targets — such as fleeing vehicles, ambushes and attempts to plant roadside bombs — through streamlined planning tools crafted in Silicon Valley.

A jury began deliberations Tuesday morning after five days of testimony into whether or not a New Mexico woman fatally shot her husband after a party at the couple's home.

In a sweeping legal fight that could affect drinking water supplies for thousands of Sacramento-area residents, two water districts near the old McClellan Air Force Base are suing the federal government to clean up the cancer-causing chemical hexavalent chromium from the area’s groundwater supplies.

The goal of the revamp is to not only reduce the number of official instructions, but to also reduce their length. Another aim is to ensure all directives are written clearly and concisely and are free of jargon and confusing acronyms.

A program called American Humane, along with several other donors, helped pay for Air Force working dog Rick to be flown from South Korea and returned to Staff Sgt. Amanda Cubbage, with his veterinary costs covered for life.

The U.S. Air Force is actively pursuing the recovery of funds from Northrop Grumman Corp. in a dispute over upkeep of its Joint STARS surveillance aircraft, including damage to a radar during maintenance, according to a service spokesman.

The chemicals, which were key ingredients in a widely used firefighting foam, previously were detected near a training site where base firefighters practiced dousing aircraft fires.

A number of Air Force personnel, in cooperation with soldiers and airmen from other nations, are running a base out of Grant County International Airport as part of the Air Force Mobility Command’s week-long Mobility Guardian exercise.

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U.S. military doctors have kept a full schedule at Britain’s civilian hospitals, treating a backlog of patients with ailments they rarely see on a base filled with relatively healthy servicemembers.

A South Dakota-based detachment of B-1B Lancers is on Guam to assume U.S. Pacific Command’s continuous bomber presence mission at Andersen Air Force Base.

Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson uses flight terms to describe her four years in command of the Air Force Academy. And one word comes up again and again: "Turbulence."

A Wright-Patterson airman who rushed to a bomb explosion site to treat critically injured service members was honored by top Air Force leaders in a “Portraits of Courage” ceremony Friday at the Pentagon.

Rodrigo Nuñez, one of two construction workers detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement while reporting to a new job on the Travis Air Force base in Fairfield, has been deported, according to activists and his union.

A U.S. airman killed during a flight mission in 2002 was immortalized Friday as a bridge in his native Watertown community was dedicated in his honor.

Among the many jobs Col. Brandon D. Parker had Friday, rounding up his four children probably was not one he was expecting. But as a parent, he knows it's part of the deal.

The Big Bad Basic competition is the final test of the freshman class's six-week training. It pits the freshman cadets in single combat against classmates in a circular sand pit in Jacks Valley, the training area on the north side of the academy.

U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington invited fellow Republican and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Mac Thornberry, to Abilene for an August recess visit.

A pilot shortage across the Air Force "is a very big deal" and defies a single, easy solution, Wilson told reporters during a break between meetings. Having been sworn in on May 8, she's now getting out out of Washington to visit airmen and hear about their needs.

The Defense Department identified the airman who died Wednesday in a noncombat-related incident in Kuwait as Tech. Sgt. David Board of Barboursville, W.Va.