The 22nd and 931st air refueling wings at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., will accept the new planes at a ceremony. McConnell was selected as the first active-duty base to receive the new refueling tankers.

Air Force Pitch Day is designed as a fast-track program to put companies on one-page contracts and same-day awards with the swipe of a government credit card.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government asked the Air Force to suspend the training over Yokota Air Base, citing an unaccounted-for bag from a reserve chute that may have fallen outside the installation as the reason for their concerns.

An Air Force F-16D Fighting Falcon assigned to Misawa Air Base in northern Japan was forced to make the precautionary landing at a Japanese regional airport Monday.

Officials say the move of a German Air Force donated Tornado fighter plane from Holloman Air Force Base to the Otero County Fairgrounds went well.

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Retired Air Force Col. Joe M. Jackson, a recipient of the Medal of Honor, a veteran of three wars and early U-2 pilot, died Saturday at the age of 95.

An Air Force F-16 fighter jet made a precautionary landing at a Japanese regional airport Monday, according to a Tohoku Defense Bureau spokesman.

The Air Force padlocked the gates to the property known as Area 2 in 2016, but basic upkeep still costs about $675,000 annually, base officials said.

The Michigan Air National Guard is seeking input on a plan to update military training airspace around an aerial gunnery range in northern Michigan — a change that officials say could alter noise levels in surrounding communities.

This is the second time B-2 bombers, based at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., have rotated to Hawaii to support U.S. Strategic Command’s Bomber Task Force mission, the Air Force said.

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The plane had been missing since May 23, 1969, when Sgt. Paul Meyer, a U.S. Air Force assistant crew chief stationed at RAF Mildenhall, got drunk, impersonated an officer and took off from the flight line.

The Air Force on Thursday accepted the first KC-46A Pegasus jet tanker from Boeing following years of delays to the modernized air-refueling plane program due to technical issues and allegations of corruption.

The Air Force confirmed it will investigate allegations of sexual assault and harassment involving members of the Wisconsin Air National Guard 115th Fighter Wing's Security Forces Squadron.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin sent a letter to the Air Force office that handles congressional inquiries in mid-November asking it to investigate the claims involving members of the 115th Fighter Wing's Security Forces Squadron.

Chief Master Sgt. Thomas Mazzone has been removed for unbecoming behavior, the command confirmed Friday. He has been reassigned pending retirement.

The renovations will transform 140 two- and three-bedroom apartments, built by the Japanese government decades ago, into two-bedroom dorms for airmen.

Following an Air Force investigation that led to the firing of three commanders, new leadership at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas said they are working to make all personnel feel accepted and respected.

Despite Air Force assurances that Georgia’s drinking water is safe for the thousands of people living around its installations, experts and neighboring residents are questioning those findings, claiming the military’s review was too narrow and failed to test any water off-base.

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Human Systems Division is working closely with aircrews and industry experts to develop and improve bladder relief devices — especially for female pilots.

A plan to stand up 24 mobile air base kits — part of a $797 million program to bolster American air power in Europe — has been hampered by vague deadlines and insufficient oversight, according to an IG report.

The New York National Guard says it will have provided military funeral honors for more than 11,000 veterans and military members by the time 2018 ends next week.

A smaller Air Force with aging aircraft plans to fly its KC-135 refueling tankers — eight of which are operated by the Hawaii Air National Guard at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam — for another 30 to 40 years.

U.S. Air Forces Europe said troops holding “Make America Great Again” hats during President Donald Trump’s visit Thursday to Ramstein Air Base were not in violation of military rules that prohibit taking part in partisan activities while in uniform.

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More than 200 airmen waited hours in an aircraft hangar to meet the president and first lady, who stopped at Ramstein Air Base in Germany after midnight on their way back from Iraq.

Nearly as long as a football field, the Super Galaxy has significantly more capacity than the C-17, the largest aircraft used by the Air Force for aeromedical evacuations in the cargo area.

Air Force veteran Andrew Koehle died before creating the life he had intended. So when presented the option to donate their son’s organs, parents decided that would become part of their son’s legacy.

Members of the Lincoln-based 155th Air Refueling Wing fly, maintain and support KC-135 stratotankers and perform other duties while forward deployed to Kandahar.

Fluorinated compounds known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, used in military firefighting foam have soaked into soil and shallow groundwater on the base, and last year the chemicals turned up in low levels nearly a mile away at Madison Water Utility’s Well 15.

A breakdown of communication led to an uncoordinated-and-ineffective combined response that an Air Force review found could have resulted in serious injury or property damage.

The two airmen, who filed suit using the aliases Richard Roe and Victor Voe to avoid the stigma of publicizing their HIV status, say they can in fact go overseas and carry a combat load. Their doctors agree.

The 8-year-old boy from Spangdahlem Air Base who died following a car crash Saturday has been identified as Gavyn Sanford, son of Staff Sgt. Latora Sanford and Gene Sanford.

The eight-year-old son of an airman from Spangdahlem Air Base was killed Saturday night in a single-car crash on autobahn A60 near the base, German police and base officials said.

The incoming squadrons means higher-paying jobs, and “anything new” will help the area, said Hammond, who expects Springfield and eastern Bay County to be recovered by the time the F-35s come in.

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Perry Forgione started conducting research and determined that one "out of 500 children here at the time in 1980 were born with birth defects and we couldn't figure it out."

Many Security, Widefield and Fountain residents have extremely high levels of toxic chemicals in their bodies compared with other Americans, apparently from drinking water contaminated by firefighting foam used for decades at Peterson Air Force Base, according to a first-of-its-kind study released Thursday.

Air Force's new athletic director has one thing in common with the old one: ties to West Point.

Luca Leyva has learned a lot about himself looking into the soft, dark eyes of Lobo.

A civilian secretary pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to felony charges that she undertook a long-running effort to boost her own pay.

The presence of F-22 Raptors — the Air Force’s premier fighter — is slated to grow on Oahu with the service proposing to permanently redistribute some of the aircraft from hurricane- damaged Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida.

Residents of the far-flung islands of the Northern Marianas, who recently endured one of history’s most powerful typhoons, are getting gifts by parachute as part of Operation Christmas Drop.

A civilian pilot was hospitalized Wednesday after his plane crashed about five miles off the coast of Honolulu during a military exercise by the Hawaii Air National Guard, military officials said.

David Tillotson III, former assistant deputy chief management officer for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, recently was appointed as the director of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.

The white gyrfalcon mascot who was taken as part of a prank at West Point in early November and suffered a bloodied wing, was medically cleared and performed at Air Force’s home football game against Colorado State on Thanksgiving.

The Titan Missile Museum, in Sahuarita, Arizona, is offering a new tour of the deactivated Titan II missile facility. It is the Director’s Tour, and it is an opportunity to view the site through the eyes of its director, Yvonne Morris, who was a U.S. Air Force officer and a missile combat crew commander at that very site from 1980 to 1984.

An Okinawa-based airmen was arrested while in possession of a loaded Beretta M9 pistol after failing to report to work on Thursday.

Winter is coming, and the Air Force is expanding indoor community space for troops and families at America’s northernmost military base in the Far East.

Although the decision is not final, the Air Force last week selected Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as the “preferred location” for the F-35 Lightning II Hybrid Product Support Integrator organization, which supports the entire F-35 enterprise.

A Warner Robins man convicted of molesting a young teenage girl has been sentenced to 90 years in a Georgia prison.

Former Air Force fullback D.J. Johnson was sentenced to 10 years of confinement, forfeiture of all pay and allowances and dismissal from the military for being convicted on two charges of sexual assault.

The public memorial service for Air Force Staff Sgt. Dylan Elchin, who was killed Nov. 27 alongside two Green Berets when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, included more than 100 fellow special tactics airmen from units in Florida and New Mexico, filling the 500-seat auditorium to capacity, the local daily reported.

Due to cutbacks, U.S. Army Europe tax centers will limit assistance mostly to servicemembers that fall below a certain rank and income level during the 2019 tax season, Army officials said.

At least two civilians recently drove unchallenged through the main gate at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., the first act in a bizarre unfolding of kidnapping and sexual-assault allegations made and then retracted, according to multiple news reports.

Former airman Devin Kelley should have been disqualified from legally obtaining guns after his court-martial conviction in 2012 of assaulting his wife and stepson while in the service, which led to a bad-conduct discharge.

Pegasus has been certified to refuel some of the military's most essential combat and support aircraft, including the F-16, F/A-18 and B-52.

The U.S. Air Force is violating the state’s Water Quality Act by failing to properly respond to contaminated groundwater discovered on and around eastern New Mexico’s Cannon Air Force Base, the state contends.

Capt. Sean Miller was convicted Tuesday after sharing hundreds of sexually explicit messages, photographs and videos with two Air Force Office of Special Investigations undercover agents whom he believed to be 14 years old.

Senior Master Sgt. Israel Del Toro Jr., survivor of a 2005 roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan, appeared on an episode of "Bumping Mics With Jeff Ross & Dave Attell."

The Pentagon has decided to locate the F-35 Hybrid Product Support Integrator Organization at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, with the potential for more to be located at the base over the next several years.

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Nestled close to Kadena’s flight line sits a small, unassuming off-white building with nondescript lettering on the side. Without it, operations at the largest air base in the Pacific would screech to a halt.

“We have probably about $7 million worth of damage that we’re going to have to work on in the next several months,” Col. Mark Lamey, acting 673rd Medical Group commander, said during a town hall meeting.

The companies said Tuesday they’ve agreed to pitch Airbus’s A330 jetliner-based multi-role tanker transport, or MRTT, to plug a shortfall in the Air Force’s midair refueling capabilities and also to develop entirely new programs.

A rousing cheer went up in an auditorium at the Air Force Academy as a cadet-built satellite hurtled toward orbit Monday aboard a Space X rocket, marking the latest milestone for the academy's ambitious student space program.

Friends and family will be given the chance to pay their respects to fallen U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Dylan Elchin later this week at a public memorial service in Pennsylvania.

A Japanese court has awarded $842,000 to people living near the home of U.S. Forces Japan as compensation for aircraft noise, according to the leader of a residents group.

Aria Saito, a Tokyo resident, was charged Friday with murder and violation of the Swords and Firearms Control Law in the death of Air Force Master Sgt. Nicholas Vollweiler.

Lt. Col. Paul Goossen was fired from his job at Minot Air Base in North Dakota earlier this week after an internal investigation revealed he failed to stop airmen from leaving phallic drawings on vehicles and cockpits during a 69th Bomb Squadron deployment.

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Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson sustained a water leak Friday and only necessary personnel are now permitted on the base after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit about seven miles northwest of the Anchorage, Alaska installation.

In 1987, two Air Force flyers felt like sitting ducks in their crippled Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird aircraft over the Baltic Sea. This week, one of the pilots finally got a chance to meet and thank the Swedes who saved them.

Tyndall Elementary is one of a handful of schools that temporarily merged onto another campus because of facility destruction and community displacement from Hurricane Michael.

Days into the search for a missing Air Force Academy cadet candidate, Rocky Mountain National Park’s search and rescue team got a lead: A group of park visitors saw Micah Tice on Saturday morning in the Battle Mountain area near Longs Peak.

Chief Master Sgt. Terrence Greene, who had been taking on both roles of senior enlisted leader and command chief, relinquished the roles for Chief Master Sgt. Richard Winegardner Jr. and Chief Master Sgt. Brian Kruzelnick, respectively.

An airman found dead on base early Monday has been identified as Airman 1st Class Owen Little, a member of the 31st Maintenance Squadron.

Air Force Capt. Joonki Min, 45, a Korean-American from Forest Park, Ill., was found at his on-base residence Monday, the 51st Fighter Wing’s public affairs office said Thursday.

Army Capt. Andrew Patrick Ross, 29, of Lexington, Va., Army Sgt. 1st Class Eric Michael Emond, 39, of Brush Prairie, Wash., and Air Force Staff Sgt. Dylan J. Elchin, 25, of Hookstown, Pa., died Tuesday when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device in Andar, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.

The United States Air Force Academy on Monday asked for assistance locating cadet candidate Micah Tice, 20, of Las Vegas, who was last heard from on Friday, according to a news release.

As workers replace and add chain-link fences around rotting dormitories and graffitied ranch houses at the old North Truro Air Force Station on Cape Cod, officials agree that a plan for a vibrant cultural center has gone nowhere.

Lt. Col. Paul Goossen, commander of the 69th Bomb Squadron at Minot Air Force Base, was removed from command Tuesday for failure to maintain a professional workplace environment.

The French air force is joining Exercise Point Blank for the first time this year to train alongside U.S. and British forces based at RAF Lakenheath and RAF Marham.

Six F-22 Raptor aircraft from the 325th Fighter Wing out of Tyndall Air Force Base have moved to another western Florida base to continue its training mission after Tyndall was devastated by Hurricane Michael more than a month ago, according to service officials.

An American airman assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing was found dead on base early Monday morning, the Italian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

Known for being staid and secretive, Air Force Space Command is now looking for help from a crowd best known for “man buns” and YouTube channels.

The Falcons hope to chalk up a season of near misses to growing pains. The team lost seven games, but none by more than 10 points. The average margin in those defeats was 6.2 points.

Faced with a shortage of some 2,000 pilots, the Air Force’s service academy is trying to churn out more pilot candidates.

The lasting legacy of the current Air Force football team may end up being the number of pilots it will send to the Air Force, as coach Troy Calhoun said he believed this class received a record number of pilot training spots.

Cadet 1st Class James Brahm, of Huntsville, Ala., and Cadet 1st Class Madison Tung, of Santa Monica, Calif., are the Air Force Academy's 40th and 41st recipients of the award since it was established in 1902 by philanthropist Cecil Rhodes.

The U.S. routinely sends the aircraft to the South China Sea — where more than $1.2 trillion in U.S. trade transits annually — and other parts of the Indo-Pacific as part of its “continuous bomber presence” missions out of Andersen Air Force Base.

Work will start in summer and the first F-35s are scheduled to arrive in 2021.

Thirty-five F-35A Lightning IIs were launched in about 11 minutes for Monday’s drill at Hill Air Force Base, Utah.

Military officials formally reopened the Selah Airstrip on Thursday morning as a C-17 Globemaster from Joint Base Lewis-McChord landed on the 5,200-foot-long asphalt strip. Two mobile rocket launchers then drove off the plane and over to an area alongside the airfield and, with two other units, fired a salvo over a nearby ridge.

Fellow airmen recalled Master Sgt. Nicholas Vollweiler's service, his love of tattoos and motorcycles, and his adoption of a former military working dog.

An Air Force plane made an emergency landing at McClellan Airfield Wednesday afternoon, leaving one servicemember hospitalized with what a Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District spokesman called a “very minor injury.”

A 28-year-old Air Force instructor pilot was killed when his T-38C Talon jet trainer crashed Tuesday evening at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas, service officials said late Wednesday.

Senior Master Sgt. Daniel John Slater, 42, lost control of his motorcycle on Nov. 11 near Robins Air Force Base.

Airmen leaving for yearlong deployments will no longer have to return before moving their goods and families to their next permanent duty station.

One pilot was killed and another was hospitalized when their T-38C Talon crashed late Tuesday at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas, service officials said. It was the fifth crash of the training jet in the last 12 months.