Airman 1st Class Calvin Cooper is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter, negligent homicide and reckless driving in the March 21, 2019, crash that resulted in the death of 39-year-old Angelica Baca of Albuquerque.

Col. Ryan Keeney, 49th Wing commander at Holloman Air Force Base, received his COVID-19 vaccination last week. Keeney survived a leukemia relapse in 2012 which left him immunocompromised following a bone marrow transplant in 2013.

As part of a national effort to harness the speed and flexibility of additive manufacturing — often called "3D printing" — the Air Force this month issued a call for a "cutting-edge automated 3-D scanning system" that can quickly scan complex parts to produce three-dimensional models.

A U.S. Air Force base in Germany has slashed the time and cost of a common chore after thousands of M4 rifles failed an inspection — but the Army says the cleaning method they used may do “too good a job.”

Master Sgt. Scott W. Blais, an Air Force Reserve airman from East Longmeadow, Mass., died suddenly while on a training mission in Hawaii, Westover Air Reserve Base announced Monday.

By Friday afternoon, the announcement had garnered nearly 300 comments on Facebook, most critical of the prohibition on overnight purchases.

The headquarters of Air Force Special Operations Command has elevated its "health protection condition" in response to rising numbers of coronavirus cases at the installation and in the community.

Tech. Sgt. Michael Morris, an airman based in Italy, died Tuesday.

In a move aimed at combating what it is calling "the increasing spread of COVID-19 across our communities," Eglin Air Force Base has moved to the fourth level of a five-level Department of Defense "health protection" scale.

The Air Force Civil Engineer Center and 88th Air Base Wing will host the first "virtual industry exchange" Jan. 21 to explore possible mixed-use commercial development at the base, the Air Force Civil Engineer Center said Wednesday.

Jack W. Snyder, who participated as a corpsman in multiple invasions in Europe, Africa, and the Pacific until 1946 and then served in the Air Force from 1957 to 1963, has died at age 94.

The Air Force has chosen Alabama’s Redstone Arsenal to house the 1,400-member U.S. Space Command Headquarters, service and state officials said Wednesday.

A team at the 48th Fighter Wing picked five finalists for the name for its new squadron of F-35As.

Yokota Air Base and Yokosuka Naval Base are one step closer to opening up coronavirus vaccine inoculations for the general population of service members, civilian employees and their families.

After his girlfriend's house was burglarized twice, Abe Wheeler, a member of Security Forces at Ellsworth Air Force Base, took time off work and recruited fellow airmen to patrol the area.

Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett is slated to resign effective Jan. 20.

round 500 New Jersey-based National Guard soldiers and airmen are expected to remain in the city at least through the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.

Offutt Air Force Base is one of the six finalists to become the headquarters. A decision by the Air Force on the headquarters location is expected in mid-January.

No U.S. troops were killed despite Iran's use of weapons that were each about 40 feet long and carrying 1,600 pounds of explosives, but 110 survivors were ultimately diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries, some requiring long hospitalizations and intensive therapies.

Volansi, a technology company that builds winged drones, is competing with 17 other companies including aircraft behemoths Boeing and Lockheed Martin for a slice of a $400 million pie to manufacture drone and drone part prototypes.

Air Force officials have toured the grounds of Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque to evaluate the site as a possible location for the U.S. Space Command.

The Air Force has begun tracking the demographics of some disciplinary actions to determine if punishment is meted out impartially.

Five military families filed a lawsuit against the private companies that manage housing at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph Air Force Base, making it the second lawsuit in the past two years to allege poor housing conditions at the Texas base.

Senior Master Sgt. Rick Johnson had deployed twice before to combat zones, but he never experienced the panic and confusion he saw in Iraq last March during a fatal rocket attack on Camp Taji.

Hundreds of activated Hawaii National Guard personnel with the joint task force responding to COVID-19 are getting vaccinated, with some on neighbor islands receiving the Pfizer vaccine today from the back of a C-17 cargo aircraft.

The Reapers will boost surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities in the Black Sea region, where the U.S. has regularly accused Russia of dangerous intercepts of aircraft, and other incidents have caused tensions to flare.

The repairs provision at Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station is part of the 2021 military construction budget.

Anyone deemed a close contact to the coronavirus cases at Duncan Street Child Development Center at Yokosuka Naval Base and a second-grade classroom at Bob Hope Primary School at Kadena Air Base will be contacted by health authorities, officials said.

When Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Christina Ré started training in military health care, she could not know that one day she would need to call on untold reserves of resilience and flexibility during a global pandemic.

Capt. Anthony J. Polizzi collapsed Tuesday while hiking the Moanalua Valley trail on Oahu. He was taken to Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, where he was pronounced dead, the Air Force said.

The airman’s identification was withheld pending next of kin notification, according to the 15th Wing on Wednesday. The release provided no further information.

The fire at 8:30 a.m. caused no injuries and damaged no mail or parcels, according to an email from Lt. Stuart Thrift, spokesman for the 374th Airlift Wing.

The base said there is no danger to the base or the community, and there are no active missing persons cases at the installation.

In South Korea, 10 people associated with the U.S. military, all new arrivals to the peninsula, tested positive for the virus between Dec. 10 and Wednesday.

Troops in Japan are getting the first wave of inoculations of the Moderna vaccine against the coronavirus.

Eglin Air Force Base began vaccinating front-line health care workers against COVID-19 at the base hospital on Wednesday after the installation's first vaccine shipment arrived.

Madison's Air National Guard unit is airborne again after the fatal crash of an F-16 fighter jet during a training exercise over Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Navy football will host Air Force on Sept. 11, 2021 with the annual service academy rivalry game commemorating the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States.

Airmen at Tyndall Air Force Base will be undergoing more realistic air-to-air combat training for the next year or two with the arrival of the F-1 Mirage aircraft unit.

The initial inspector general review was launched at the request of the Air Force Department’s top civilian and military leaders during the summer amid a racial reckoning nationwide following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

The B61 gravity bomb was designed and engineered in the 1960s. Now, scientists and engineers at Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories are among those working to give the 13th version of the bomb a multibillion-dollar face-lift.

Four universities, led by the University of Nebraska, are joining forces in making the case that the new headquarters for the U.S. Space Command should be located in the Cornhusker State.

A decision is expected in January on the permanent headquarters of the U.S. Space Command, and Gov. Jared Polis along with more than 600 of the state's political, business, civic and military leaders are making another pitch to the outgoing commander in chief to choose Colorado.

Staff Sgt. Julia DaSilva got the idea for the pocket-sized checklist when she was taking a Basic Life Support refresher course and realized that a quick-reference tool could make critical medical knowledge more readily available.

A Tuesday training flight is believed to be the first use of AI onboard a U.S. military aircraft.

Misawa Air Base received more than 22 inches of snowfall in 72 hours, delaying a Patriot Express flight.

Sirens sounded on the Ramstein Air Base’s loudspeaker system Saturday morning, followed by the warning: “Aerial attack, aerial attack, seek cover, seek cover.”

The Air Force wants help from the defense industry to maintain Ramstein Air Base’s defense system, and to develop and deploy air base defense systems for other locations in Europe.

Samuel Frye, a U.S. Air Force member, is charged with two counts of murder, five counts of attempted murder and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature in connection with a shooting at a Myrtle Beach restaurant in October.

Space Force service members will soon get lapel pins and service badges to wear on their Air Force dress uniforms to better distinguish the branches.

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Created last year as the first new armed service since 1947, the Space Force was established with the mission of protecting U.S. interests in space from potential adversaries, be they rival nations or gobs of space junk.

Since the first pairing in May 2019, Adopt an Airman has connected about 140 airmen with more than 70 host families in town.

U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy have asked the Air Force to determine if political motives were behind the decision to house transport planes at four Air National Guard bases, bypassing Bradley International Airport.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the rape convictions of three Air Force airmen, reversing a ruling from the military’s top court dismissing their cases because they fell outside the statute of limitations.

The actions Alaxey Germanovich were honored for came about a week into the mission, on April 8, 2017, when ambushed coalition forces fought a grueling 8-hour gun battle under machine gun and sniper fire from all sides, the award citation says.

Retention bonuses are intended to improve retention of experienced airmen and space professionals in “stressed career fields” or in those that have high training costs.

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, service members who traveled for either mission-essential or personal reasons were sometimes required to isolate 14 days as a safety precaution.

Cars came through the Alamogordo Chamber of Commerce early Monday morning, Dec. 7 to deliver packages of cookies for the Holloman Air Force Base Cookie Drive. The cookies will be distributed to the Airmen in the dorms.

U.S. military personnel and their families living in Germany won’t have many travel options over the December holidays, either because of command decisions or the patchwork of state and local laws meant to curb an ongoing spike in coronavirus infections.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions officials announced the company had secured a contract worth about $37.8 million to provide Valkyrie aircraft to the U.S. Air Force as part of its Skyborg program.

The plane, with eight people on board, had problems with one of the aircraft's four engines, said Capt. Dave Pytlik, a spokesman for the Connecticut National Guard. No injuries were reported.

Yokota Air Base reported seven new coronavirus patients and Yokosuka Naval Base reported six.

This is the third time the Air Force has pushed back its fitness testing since the pandemic began in March. The Navy and Marine Corps also recently postponed their fitness tests, citing restrictions on gatherings due to the pandemic.

In January, Pentagon contractor Ghost Robotics will be unleashing four of its semi-autonomous robots at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida in what could be a step toward introducing robot dogs to conflict zones.

The airlifters' missions include tactical airdrop, aeromedical evacuation, humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, and transporting distinguished visitors.

South Jersey lawmakers consider several provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act to be big wins for Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.

After the announcement earlier this year that F.E. Warren Air Force Base would be the first to have its nuclear missiles replaced in the coming decade, base officials have started initial preparations for the project, which could begin as soon as 2022.

On some bases, commanders have pushed back fitness assessments until the spring.

A mission over the Barents Sea originally involved two bomber aircraft, but one aircraft safely diverted to RAF Fairford in England for a maintenance issue, EUCOM said.

USAF Connect has been replacing smartphone applications at military installations across the Pacific all year, with transition times up to the individual wings.

Airman 1st Class Sarah Figueroa on Oct. 14 posted a photo of herself in uniform to Instagram and wrote that she was “a victim of sexual harassment in the Air Force” by a coworker.

Starting late last month, three Air Force commanders on Okinawa began imposing restrictions on their airmen’s alcohol consumption. Two of those orders have expired and one is still in place.

The annual Air Force mission, which brings food, clothing and other donated supplies to thousands of people living on small Pacific islands, is scheduled to fly its first sorties of the season on Sunday from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.

For decades, maintenance technicians at Westover Air Reserve Base have been servicing the largest planes in the nation partly outside, no matter if it was 90 degrees or 9 degrees. That will soon change.

The website for the U.S. Embassy in Micronesia said the nation has had no confirmed COVID-19 cases within its borders.

Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks called Maxwell Air Force Base "an alternative to the ugly policies of Jim Crow” she experienced outside of its fortified walls. “When I left the base, I had to ride home on a segregated bus.”

Army Spc. Brittany Harris and Air Force Airman 1st Class Peter Gonzalez were found dead on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively, according to base officials. The incidents are unrelated.

The Air Force will need some of its active-duty troops to transfer early to Reserve or National Guard duty or change specialties amid the highest retention rate that the service has seen nearly two decades, a top general said Tuesday.

Tuesday brought the first snowfall of the season to some German states.

Yokota Air Base, the headquarters of U.S. Forces Japan, announced that 21 people had tested positive between Nov. 25 and Monday.

The body of Senior Airman Jeremieh Soroten, 21, was recovered sometime Friday in the vicinity of Adan Beach in the Kunigami district where he was last seen, Kadena's 18th Wing said in a statement Saturday afternoon.

There was great relief within the Army football program when it was announced Wednesday that the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy series would be preserved for this season with the re-scheduling of the postponed Air Force game.

The Defense Department has identified a U.S. airman who died Friday in a non-combat related vehicle incident at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates.

Officials Wednesday celebrated the steel-topping of the new 50,000 square-foot, two-bay KC-46 aircraft hangar, a significant step showing the base is ready to start housing the next generation refueling tanker jets.

Rep. Adam Smith suggested the Air Force preemptively announced its preferred locations for a C-130J operating base, saying the timing “raises serious concerns” about the potential influence two Senate runoff elections in Georgia.

The U.S. Air Force has selected Kirtland Air Force Base's 58th Special Operations Wing as the preferred future home for its AC-130J Ghostrider Formal Training Unit, to be relocated from Hurlburt Field. Fla.

Germany has partially lifted a months-old coronavirus travel ban on Americans to allow the children of some members of the U.S. military community covered by the Status of Forces Agreement to spend the holidays in the country with their parents, Air Force officials said.

The Defense Department requires base commanders to provide motorcycle safety training and while there is a plan to move the course, it won't be implemented any time soon, the base's safety chief said.

Hypersonic weapons travel faster than Mach 5 but have the maneuvering capabilities of cruise missiles during their entire flight.

A giant 72-year-old hangar at Yokota Air Base is getting a makeover.

An investigative journalist in Japan has released over a dozen documents that cover the storage and leakage of chemical weapons, lead in the drinking water at schools on Kadena Air Base and “forever chemicals” like PFOS contamination at Kadena and Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.

Air Force 1st Lt. Kenneth Allen, 27, with the RAF Lakenheath-based 48th Fighter Wing, was killed after his plane plunged into the North Sea about 140 miles northeast of the base on June 15.

Yokota Air Base, where a spike in locally acquired infections began Nov. 13, reported 21 new cases Saturday and Sunday, 19 of them already in quarantine due to contact tracings.

The airman, assigned to Kadena Air Base, was last spotted clinging to his board by a surfing companion at approximately 9 a.m. Sunday. The Air Force has not yet confirmed the missing airman’s identity.

Security forces at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida have begun using robot dogs for patrolling the installation, a first for the mechanized pooches.