Congress took interest in the issues affecting on-base military housing following a Reuters news agency report published a year ago highlighting a slew of problems ranging from mold to lead paint exposure.

Air Force Lt. Col. John Caldwell’s ambition growing up in Central Florida certainly wasn’t surprising. He wanted to be a pilot. He has fulfilled that dream and will return home as the lead pilot of the elite U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds at an air show next fall.

Officials at Kunsan Air Base closed the runway for nearly 24 hours after the Monday incident.

Holloman Air Force Base mental health clinicians are trained in prolonged exposure, a type of cognitive behavioral therapy that teaches patients to approach trauma-related feelings or memories gradually as a means of overcoming the initial traumatic experience.

Researchers recently completed a field demonstration at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base of a plasma technology they say destroys potentially harmful chemicals known as PFAS in groundwater.

Lt. Col. John “Matt” Kincade, an instructor pilot assigned to the 5th Flying Training Squadron, and 2nd Lt. Travis B. Wilkie, a student pilot assigned to the 71st Student Squadron, were killed when their T-38 crashed during a formation training flight on Nov. 21, 2019.

At least three other lawsuits have been filed in federal courts against private companies that manage military base housing. Each accuses housing companies of unsafe living conditions that were aggravated by shoddy maintenance work and slow response to repair requests.

Former Navy and Air Force pilots or their surviving spouses have expressed concerns about the high number of cancers affecting their community, and some have wondered whether radars on military aircraft might have been a factor.

The Air Force announced Monday at a preliminary hearing that it has charged Airman 1st Class Roman Bahena with involuntary manslaughter, which carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.

Abilene police officers found the airman at a home on the city’s south side early Saturday after officials at nearby Dyess Air Force Base reported that the man was harming himself, Abilene Police Chief Stan Standridge said at a morning news conference.

The allegations against then-Lt. Gen. Lee Levy were corroborated by witnesses who spoke to the Air Force’s Office of the Inspector General, according to a report.

Two airmen at Kapaun Air Station in Germany have an ambitious plan for Thanksgiving: they’re providing many of the 351 service members who live in the base dorms with home-cooked meals.

NATO and U.S. aircraft-maker Boeing agreed Wednesday a $1 billion contract to refurbish the military alliance’s aging fleet of surveillance planes, ensuring that they can continue to serve as the organization’s eye in the sky until 2035.

Maj. John “Sapper” Tice and Lt. Col. Tony “Crack” Roe came to the rescue of American ground troops under heavy fire a decade ago in Afghanistan.

At a ceremony Tuesday, the National WWII Museum says Dorothy Mann's family donated mementos such as her flight suit, dog tags and insignia, her leather flight jacket and her pilot's kneeboard — a clipboard used by pilots for notes and charts.

The lawmakers pointed to recent community opposition to hosting the F-35 mission at Truax Field Air National Guard Base in Madison, Wisconsin as well as a resolution passed by the Madison Common Council raising the community's concerns with basing the mission there.

Photographs of a C-17 Globemaster aircraft showed an open compartment on the plane after a precautionary landing at Kadena Air Base Tuesday.

Staff Sgt. Tyler Mayfield, 33, died 12 days after being injured in a car accident in Missouri.

The lawsuit alleges the Air Force’s discharges of toxic pollution over decades “have created an imminent and substantial endangerment to human health and the environment.”

A 3D printer has slashed the time and cost required to get explosive training devices to the experts at RAF Lakenheath who need them as they prepare for deployments.

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base was placed on alert after authorities found a suspicious vehicle Friday, officials said.

Tech. Sgt. Cody Smith was awarded the Silver Star during a ceremony at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., on Friday for his 2018 actions against Taliban forces in Afghanistan.

The 34th Fighter Squadron with personnel drawn from active-duty and reserve units at Hill Air Force Base left recently for Al Dhafra Air Base, in the United Arab Emirates.

Lt. Col. John “Matt” Kincade and 2nd Lt. Travis B. Wilkie were piloting the supersonic T-38C Talon training aircraft that crashed in an incident that involved a second T-38 during a routine formation Thursday.

On her first trip overseas as the new Air Force secretary, Barbara Barrett went to Ramstein Air Base with Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein to visit with airmen and learn about their missions.

Air Force security forces teamed up with Japanese police Wednesday to patrol a nightlife area popular with service members at the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo.

Maj. Gen. Craig Wills, commander since June of the 19th Air Force Air Education and Training Command, said he believes the 5-foot-4-inch minimum height requirement is an artificial barrier to service.

Airman 1st Class Calvin Cooper is charged with reckless operation of a vehicle and involuntary manslaughter in the March 23 death of Angelica Baca.

Video shot by Oklahoma City’s KOCO News shows one T-38 flipped over a few hundred feet off of a runway with markings in the ground that indicate its path from the runway. A second T-38 was resting upright several hundred feet from the flipped jet.

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) awarded some $37 million in contracts to small businesses during a trio of recent Pitch Day events, held in Dayton, San Francisco and Niceville, Fla.

Ramstein Air Base got $700,000 in prize money for being named the Pentagon’s best Air Force installation. Here's how it's using the money.

A cold-weather survival kit under development at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, was designed to keep F-35A Lightning II pilots alive at 40 degrees below zero.

The Air Force demoted Cory Reeves from master sergeant in September but officially allowed him to remain on active duty despite hundreds of online posts linking him to a white-nationalist group.

The two countries’ defense ministers also announced Wednesday that they are establishing an exchange program for defense scientists and engineers.

An airman who stepped into the line of fire in Afghanistan after his unit was ambushed by the Taliban 12 years ago has been awarded America’s third-highest medal for valor.

Senior Airman Marlon Xavier Cruz Gonzalez is being held without bail after a Monday court appearance.

Dayton-based S9 Engineering Technology Corp. last month completed a patent license for the commercial rights to the device — dubbed the “Fortress” — invented at the Air Force Research Laboratory.

John McTigue, 22, was an Army Air Corps co-pilot of a B-17G Flying Fortress that was struck by German anti-aircraft fire and crashed during a raid over Merseburg, Germany, on Aug. 24, 1944.

Staff Sgt. Cole Condiff, a 29-year-old combat controller with the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron, had an “unplanned parachute departure” from a C-130 fixed-wing aircraft at about 11 a.m. Nov. 5 just south of Hurlburt Field, located in the Florida Panhandle.

The Air Force isn’t taking any “shortcuts” in its effort to clean up contamination caused by the decades-old jet fuel spill at Kirtland Air Force Base, officials said at a public meeting.

Service members, family members and civilians who work for the U.S. military whose vehicles are registered “through their installation with Armed Forces in Italy plates” are exempt from the law, officials said.

The new building, targeted for completion in the fall of 2021, will include a gymnasium large enough to accommodate multiple activities and a functional strength room to meet the needs of future Air Force fitness testing.

The incident is just one of a number of recent cases of young U.S. service members in Germany getting in trouble after drinking too much.

None of the Air Force, Marines and Navy variants of the Lockheed Martin fighter is meeting its five key “reliability or maintainability metrics,” according to a Pentagon spokesman.

Staff Sgt. Cole N. Condiff, 29, was a special tactics combat controller with the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron, according to a release issued Saturday.

Only a few dozen Phantoms remain in active service around the world out of 5,195 built during a 20-year production run that started in the 1950s.

Air Force takes over recovery efforts for missing airman who fell from an aircraft during a planned static-line jump Tuesday, according to the Air Force.

Air Force officials have called the $115 million Ghostrider “the ultimate battle plane” due to its arsenal of cannons, missiles and laser-guided bombs.

The mechanical failure delayed access to adult influenza vaccinations at the base earlier this month; however, they are now available for active-duty troops.

The object, described by Misawa’s 35th Fighter Wing as an “inert training device,” created a deep crater upon impact, according to Japanese public broadcaster NHK.

When an Afghanistan-based Special Forces soldier was critically injured in combat over the summer, medics with the 59th Medical Wing at Joint Base San Antonio jumped into action for a first-of-its-kind mission to bring him home alive.

A group of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base airmen were honored Wednesday in the 11th annual Heroes Day awards ceremony in Tucson for rescuing stranded fishermen after a crane collapsed on their vessel off the coast of Mexico.

Retired Air National Guard Brig. Gen. Frank Sullivan was arrested and charged Wednesday with more than a dozen felony counts related to possession of child pornography after investigators found thousands of searches on his computer for explicit images.

After 29 years in the Air Force, Chief Master Sgt. Ramon Colon-Lopez is poised to become the military’s top enlisted service member, capping a career that has included long stints as a special operator in Afghanistan.

The airman, who has not been identified, fell from the aircraft Tuesday at about 11 a.m. over the Gulf of Mexico, south of Hurlburt Field, during a planned static-line jump, according to a news release from the base’s 24th Special Operations Wing Public Affairs.

Wisconsin environmental regulators are threatening legal action if the state’s Air National Guard does not move swiftly to clean up toxic chemicals that have been used at Truax Field and have turned up in Madison’s water supply.

The allies canceled Vigilant Ace and several other joint drills last year to facilitate nuclear talks with North Korea, which considers them a rehearsal for an invasion.

Twenty-seven states activated National Guard cyber security cells in November 2018 to help ensure critical network infrastructure remained unobstructed during the mid-term elections, the Guard’s top general said Tuesday, predicting more states would deploy such teams in 2020.

Mom will have to knit that sweater a little earlier if she wants to send it by space-available mail from the States to an Air Force post office in Europe in time for the end-of-year holidays.

The Ohio Air National Guard’s 178th Wing unit based in Springfield is being considered by the National Guard Bureau for a role in a new U.S. Space Force.

Funding awards could total as much as $750,000 under federal guidelines for contracting with small-business, innovation-focused enterprises.

If you saw the Air Force vs. Army football game Saturday, you may have noticed a graphic on CBS Sports, featuring an Army tank and what was supposed to be an Air Force jet.

The Enhanced Air Cooperation initiative focused this year on fifth-generation fighter integration, aero-medical evacuation and aircraft maintenance.

The U.S. Air Force is seeking to assert control over as much as two-thirds of a wildlife refuge in Nevada for training troops and testing weapons, according to a legislative proposal sent by military planners to the Department of the Interior and obtained by The Washington Post.

Welcome to a typical Thursday morning at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, Tucson’s most famous 4-square-mile parking lot with roughly $34 billion worth of military might.

The Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque is helping to develop a system that would collect solar energy in space, convert it to radio frequency, and beam it to earth to be used in remote, forward operational bases during military operations.

Robby and Bagira, both patrol explosive detector dogs, served in the United States Armed Forces for nearly a decade and died at the beginning of October.

Air Force Capt. Paul Sikkema will register as a sex offender and spend 10 years under intensive supervised probation after pleading guilty this week to charges that he attempted to lure a 14-year-old online for sex.

The woman, who was inside her home in the village of Brailes, about 35 miles northeast of RAF Fairford, said it was “a miracle” no one was injured in the Oct. 23 incident, the Gloucestershire Live website reported.

Political leaders fighting plans to station a squadron of F-35s at Truax Field said a visit to one of the first communities to host the fighter jets has left them more opposed, while conflicting claims emerged about the noise caused by the jets during several unannounced flights in Madison this summer.

Misawa Air Base, 700 miles north of Tokyo on the northern tip of the island of Honshu, issued a “real world missile alert” on its Facebook page, followed by an "all clear" within minutes.

Military families filed a federal lawsuit against Hunt Military Communities for mold- and pest-infested housing at Randolph Air Force Base, which is part of Joint Base San Antonio, and Laughlin Air Force Base near Del Rio in west Texas.

Tyndall Air Force Base was mentioned frequently during a recent congressional subcommittee hearing at which Department of Defense leaders were grilled for two hours on how military installations are being prepared for future severe weather threats, as well as climate change issues and cybersecurity challenges.

The Air Force now estimates it will take until at least until September 2024 before eight of the U.S.’s 20 stealth bombers are upgraded to have an initial combat capability, according to an Air Force statement.

Mechanical failure in a medical refrigerator has delayed access to adult influenza vaccinations at the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo, a 374th Airlift Wing spokeswoman said Wednesday.

British health officials said a “very small number of ticks” with tick-borne encephalitis were found at two locations in England, including Thetford Forest, which lies just across from RAF Lakenheath.

Multiple B-1B Lancers took off Thursday from Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City and flew to Saudi Arabia, according to the Air Force.

Two U.S. B-52 heavy bombers made a rare training flight with the Air Self-Defense Force over the Sea of Japan last week in a mission that likely comes in response to a spate of North Korean short-range missile tests during the past several months.

The Remote Combat Effects Campaign medal is part of an effort to better recognize the combat contributions of airmen who are not deployed, the Air Force said in a statement announcing the award’s criteria Monday.

Top Pentagon officials announced Tuesday that the military would buy another 478 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters in a $34 billion deal that will reduce the average cost of the aircraft about 12.7% in three installments of aircraft deliveries.

Tech. Sgt. Zachary Firlik, 35, and his wife Kari, 35, were found dead Sept. 28 in their off-base housing near Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.

Air Force crews staying at President Donald Trump’s Scotland golf resort during flight layovers did not violate any service rules, according to a military review into whether taxpayer dollars were misused when commanders lodged at the seaside hotel.

Airmen can apply to retire once they become eligible or separate before then if they don’t have a service commitment. Promoted airmen will have their service extended to the new rank’s high year of tenure.

A United States Air Force space shuttle landed at Kennedy Space Center early Sunday morning after spending a record-breaking 780 days in space.

Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality issued a notice of violation to Vance Air Force Base's housing provider this week for contaminating a creek near by the base, which resulted in the death of dozens of fish.

Cadet 2nd Class Harry T. Vaughn pleaded guilty to “making false official statements to law enforcement about his purchase and use of cocaine … and distribution of cocaine,” according to an Air Force Academy news release.

Linda Leonard Ambard will line up Sunday to run her ninth Marine Corps Marathon through Virginia and Washington — her 177th marathon in less than seven years — in tribute to the husband she lost in Afghanistan.

Airmen in South Korea recently got a chance to learn about the tactical capabilities of the F-35 Lightning II and operate the stealth fighter in a full-size cockpit simulator provided by engineers from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics.

Studies show that the audio system’s tones allow a pilot to hear which direction a missile is coming from 1.5 seconds faster than using the traditional display panel, according to the system's maker.

Albuquerque innovators earned $30,000 in prize money this week after offering the U.S. Air Force at Kirtland Air Force Base some novel ideas to protect aircraft against desert dust, chase flocks of nesting pigeons from hangars, and efficiently manage student flight training schedules.

Kirtland Air Force Base will be under its most extensive lockdown in years Friday as part of a large-scale security exercise.

Nov. 9 will mark 35 years since the Museum of Aviation opened its doors for the first time in what had been a surplus storage building.

The drug, which was found Oct. 9 at the alert facility controlled by Minot Air Force Base, was above ground and not near missile operators, Sgt. Benjamin Smith told The Associated Press.

The 319th Reconnaissance Wing aircraft — along with about 20 service members and 100 civilians from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam — operated from Yokota Air Force Base in Japan for the past three months to avoid extreme weather in the western Pacific.

As three Air Force Academy football players face cocaine charges in recent weeks, coach Troy Calhoun refused to answer questions about how he will address potential drug use among players in the future.