The specter in the Spectre. The terror in Tonga. Just in time for Halloween, host Rod Rodriguez and guests share their own personal tales of frights, spirits and other paranormal events in this eerie episode of Military Matters.

An employee who worked at the Kazoku Place restaurant inside Rocker Enlisted Club contracted the coronavirus from a family member, according to Kadena Air Base.

F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets scrambled late Monday to intercept Russian long-range bombers and fighters flying off Alaska’s coast, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said Tuesday.

The first seven recruits for Space Force, the military’s newest service branch, were sworn in Tuesday by Gen. David Thompson, the vice chief of space operations.

Yokota Air Base may hire more local Japanese personnel for long-term childcare positions rather than rotate staff as U.S. personnel come and go, the base commander said.

The order keeps active-duty airmen assigned to the 673rd Wing from visiting bars, breweries, pubs and nightclubs.

The terminal caters to passengers and handles luggage on the Patriot Express, which flies Boeing 767 jets between Yokota and Kadena air bases in Japan, Osan Air Base, South Korea, and the U.S. West Coast.

An airman assigned to Dyess Air Force Base was arrested Wednesday on charges that he uploaded an image of child pornography onto the internet from his home in Abilene, the city’s police department said.

Airmen in specific jobs are now being selected for random coronavirus testing to determine whether further public health actions are needed to identify asymptomatic personnel and prevent the spread of the virus, the Air Force Materiel Command has announced.

An upcoming Netflix film, shot largely on an Air Force base on Guam, features an annual Air Force operation that brings donations and supplies to remote islands in Micronesia.

The Yokota COVID-19 Errands Run Group is coordinating an event Oct. 31 in which costumed volunteers will deliver candy to the doorsteps of those quarantined in on-base housing, temporary tower units and the Kanto Lodge.

Charles “Chuck” Holbrook was killed Jan. 31, 2017 at White Sands Missile Range when he was shot by an instructor pilot and a student pilot during a training exercise.

Dayton Area Ford Dealers intend to honor area veterans of the Global War on Terror with the Ford Oval of Honor next month at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.

The two service members with the coronavirus traveled on government-chartered flights that landed at Osan Air Base on Oct. 2 and Oct. 12.

In this fast take episode of Military Matters, host Rod Rodriguez discusses feedback we've gotten after the QAnon episode, and explores possible characteristics about veterans and service members that make them so vulnerable to extremism. To uncover more, he talks again with journalist and military veteran Jack Murphy.

Military, education, city, county and business leaders gathered in front of the Maxwell Air Force Base main gate Wednesday to stress the importance the base has to Montgomery's success, and how dependent its future is on the Montgomery Public School system.

Senior Airman Natasha Beyer was acquitted on military charges of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment relating to her son, who died in 2016 at five weeks with multiple rib fractures and lesions on his brain, officials said.

Okinawa prefecture identified the Kadena Air Base Pizza Hut worker with the coronavirus as man in his 40s from Naha city.

Col. Joseph Turnham, who was installed in June as commander of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, says the base is still operating at the high level that earned it the service’s top honors twice since 2012.

U.S. fighter jets have taken over a NATO air policing mission in the North Atlantic, operating from a base in Iceland that is of growing importance to the alliance as it counters an aggressive and expansionist Russia.

An employee of the arts and crafts shop at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa has tested positive, officials said.

Two airmen were recognized for their actions during separate missions with Army Special Forces units in the southern province of Helmand.

The Kaiserslautern area was raised to Germany’s second-highest health alert level last week after a sudden spike in coronavirus cases that some were pinning on members of the large U.S. military community, officials said.

Brig. Gen. Scott Cain has moved Eglin Air Force Base at least some distance from what had been a mission-essential-personnel-only posture that also had kept visitors off the installation in connection with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The Air Force violated environmental laws by not adequately studying how noise from military jets coordinating exercises with plain-clothed soldiers on the ground in Idaho could harm humans and wildlife, a judge has ruled.

The Women in Military Service for America Memorial, at the gateway to Arlington National Cemetery, is regularly placed on lists of “hidden gems” within the nation’s capital — a perspective on the memorial that its leaders are trying to change.

The Kaiserslautern district health department, responsible for areas that include several U.S. Army bases and Ramstein Air Base, listed 14 new coronavirus cases — including eight among U.S. forces — bringing the total number of active infections to 54 as of Tuesday.

Properly disposing of masks can help stem the coronavirus' spread, according to the superintendent for operations and engineering for the 374th Civil Engineering Squadron.

As of Monday, 201 individuals affiliated with U.S. Forces Korea had tested positive for the respiratory infection. It is unknown at this time whether this incident involves another affiliated member.

A distracted pilot and a technical issue with the aircraft contributed to the May crash of an F-35 Lightning II fighter jet at Eglin Air Force Base, according to an Air Force Accident Investigation Board (AIB) report on the incident.

Unlike most recent reported coronavirus infections in the military community in Japan, the latest patient was already a community member at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, and not a new arrival or returning traveler.

Authorities accused Samuel Gooch of flying to Arizona from Wisconsin in early May to pick up what he thought was the rifle used in the shooting death of Sasha Krause. Gooch's younger brother, Mark Gooch, has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges in the death of Krause.

Congressional leaders should advance legislation that would force the U.S. Department of Defense to comply with state laws regulating toxic “forever chemicals,” attorneys general in 18 states urged.

From hundreds of entrants from across Japan, the daughter of a Yokota airman was selected as one of three finalists for those age 12 and younger in the elementary school category.

Navy will face an Air Force team that hasn't played a game, only has two opponents on its schedule and features a roster missing nearly 40 players. The Falcons were allowed to take advantage of a turnback clause that permits them to separate from the academy for a semester because of hardships.

All three new coronavirus cases at Yokota Air Base are recent arrivals to Japan and were in the mandated, 14-day quarantine period when they tested positive, according to the base.

Sometime between now and January, Virginia-based Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC) will begin flying its fleet of Mirage F1 fighter aircraft against pilots training in the Air Force's F-22 and F-35 aircraft at Eglin Air Force Base.

In this episode of Military Matters, host Rod Rodriguez explores QAnon, the far-right conspiracy theory that falsely claims President Donald Trump is fighting a shadowy cabal of Satanist pedophiles. To uncover more, he talks with QAnon Anonymous podcast co-host Travis View and with journalist and military veteran Jack Murphy.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, the Poway-based maker of Predator/Reaper family of military drones, has been awarded a U.S. Air Force contract potentially worth $7.4 billion that aims to speed up the delivery of the unmanned aircraft, if needed.

Lt. Gen. David W. Allvin was confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday to be the next vice chief of staff of the Air Force and to receive his fourth star. He replaces Gen. Stephen W. Wilson, who has served as vice chief of staff of the Air Force since July 2016.

Military Star Cards are accepted at the Nellis Air Force Base Exchange tattoo store, which opened last month.

An Air Force patch depicting an MQ-9 Reaper drone flying over China has angered state media in the communist country.

YokoWerx Dojo is part of a servicewide initiative created in 2017 to encourage airmen to practice creative problem solving.

Guam-based Global Hawks, which recently got upgraded signals intelligence equipment, have been deploying to Japan during summer to avoid typhoons since 2014. The aircraft have flown out of either Misawa Air Base, in northeast Japan, or Yokota.

The service approved the revision to its regulations on Sept. 15, the latest in a series of changes made in effort to “enhance inclusiveness."

Air Force tuition assistance will drop by $750 during the new fiscal year.

Flu vaccines for children ages 6 months to 35 months are now available at the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo, according to the 374th Medical Group.

Senior Airman Jason Khai Phan, who died Sept. 12 in Kuwait, was laid to rest during a service Tuesday at Miramar National Cemetery in San Diego.

Nine months ago, Darren McMullen was battling leukemia. With the disease now in remission, he's glad to be back doing what he loves: serving his country.

The incident that led to McConnell Air Force Base being put on lockdown Tuesday started at around 6 a.m. when the driver of a stolen vehicle refused to stop at the gate, according to a news release.

U.S. Army Garrison Japan will start dispensing flu shots at Camp Zama early next week, the commander of the U.S. Army Medical Department Activity Japan said at town hall Tuesday.

The four-week mission puts six F-16 Fighting Falcons at Graf Ignatievo Air Base in the center of the Balkan nation, where they will operate alongside Bulgarian fighter jets.

Local authorities lifted a warning to avoid touching grass and soil due to contamination fears, following a blaze at a waste treatment plant last weekend about 6 miles from Aviano Air Base in Italy.

Researchers want to test how troops might react to artificial intelligence when it behaves independently, and in unexpected ways.

A 24-year-old Air Force veteran was arrested at Scott Air Force Base after a local police department alerted officials Wednesday afternoon that he could be armed and dangerous.

Top leaders for each of the Defense Department’s military services are working to remove all personal identifying information from promotions packets, Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday.

Drills in Bulgaria are the latest in a series of exercises taking place across Europe, where the Air Force has conducted numerous show-of-force flights.

SpaceX promised in 2014 to launch Air Force rockets for at least three times less money on average than Lockheed Martin and Boeing was then charging. But now SpaceX is poised to charge more — much more — at least for the first in a series of forthcoming spy satellite launches.

Lt. Gen. Richard Clark, a 1986 academy graduate, is the first former commandant of cadets to come back for the three-star job. He's also the first Black superintendent in the school's 66-year history.

More than half of U.S. military installations worldwide have lifted travel restrictions put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, according to the Pentagon.

U.S. and other NATO forces are practicing how to fend off an attack in central Europe, bringing together B-52 bombers, fighters and missile defenses for a drill simulating a large-scale battle.

About 740 military troops serving on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in Texas and California returned to their home duty stations during the past month as demand for their work decreased, military officials announced Wednesday.

Unlike the Army, the Air Force does not have big recruiting goals with esports as a core component. Instead, it says it's focusing on entertaining airmen.

Lt. Col. Aaron Lambert, the division chief of the Epidemiology Laboratory (sometimes called the “Epi Lab"), said the lab is running more tests for COVID-19, the illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, than any Department of Defense facility.

The Air Force sent its first group of recruits to train at Keesler in April to reduce trainee numbers for social distancing purposes at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, the primary Air Force recruit training base.

This year’s Valiant Shield exercise, which concludes on Friday, involves about 11,000 personnel from the Navy, Air Force, Army and Marine Corps. Roughly 100 aircraft are involved in the U.S.-only exercise, which is intended to hone joint warfighting capabilities.

Retired Marine Sgt. Brendan Cabey officially adopted Ramos, his former military working dog, on Sept. 11, in front of the USS Constitution in Boston.

Camp Zama announced one new infection of a recent arrival in quarantine; Misawa Air Base lifted some travel restrictions.

With President Trump scheduled to visit the Dayton area Monday, the president has before him a renewed request from Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to make the Dayton area the permanent headquarters of the U.S. Space Command.

Of the 23 Morgan County, Alabama men killed during the Vietnam War, only the body of Air Force Lt. Col. Ralph Pattillo was never returned home. A marker in memory of Pattillo sits above an empty grave at the Hartselle City Cemetery.

Both the coronavirus cases the U.S. military in Japan reported Friday were people already in quarantine.

At least 18 people, most of whom are military dependents, allege in recently filed federal claims they suffer from leukemia, Parkinson’s disease and other serious ailments as a result of exposure to at least 67 different toxic chemicals at the former George Air Force Base.

Since mid-March, the 711th Human Performance Wing’s Epidemiology Lab has tested 120,648 specimens for SARS-CoV-2 testing purposes. The current mean turnaround time for testing is 19.1 hours, a Wright-Patterson spokesman said.

A person from Yokota Air Base tested positive for coronavirus at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo after returning from travel abroad.

In May, the service notified airmen that the tests were being suspended until Oct. 1. The start date has now been pushed back to Jan. 1, the Air Force said in a statement.

A 23-year-old Air Force reservist was killed in a single-vehicle wreck on the flight line at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait on Monday, the second fatal wreck on the base in less than a week.

The 48th Fighter Wing is asking for help naming the new squadron of F-35A Lightning II fighter jets that will arrive at RAF Lakenheath next year, saying “Thundervarks” just doesn’t cut it for the 5th-generation plane.

In three years, Lt. Gen Jay Silveria faced the biggest challenges he would face in uniform. The general worked to end hazing on teams, incorporate the new Space Force into the ranks and kicked off a review that changed how the academy looks at diversity and race.

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Will Roper, the top acquisition and technology official at the Air Force, is hoping to usher in a new era of weapons development in which computer-generated models — owned by the government and enabled by artificial intelligence technology — can test millions of possible designs in a virtual format before ever creating a prototype.

The research arm of the Air Force says it will use the anonymous test results to determine if there are COVID-19-related antibodies present in test participants who have been free of a confirmed exposure to the novel coronavirus.

No date has been set for the last remaining U.S. fighter squadron in Germany to move to Italy, said Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, the leader of U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa.

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Franklin Wetmore was hurt in a December explosion, but, in spite of the injury, he provided security to more than 500 personnel who were hunkered down in a terminal during an attack.

Four Osan Air Base airmen volunteered to transfer into the fledgling Space Force. However, not much will change for them, duty-wise, the Seventh Air Force commander said.

The Japan Self-Defense Forces have been transforming their capabilities in recent years in line with the government’s reinterpretation of the country’s pacifist constitution to allow for a more pro-active military.

Should there ever be another national base closure process, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is poised to emerge bigger, the ranking member on the House Appropriations Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee said.

Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown said the Air Force must institute cultural changes to keep pace with the improving Chinese and Russian militaries.

Tech Sgt. Warrell Ricketts was snorkeling with friends at Ada Beach when he disappeared, a Japan Coast Guard spokesman said. He was found unresponsive in the water about two hours later.

Six of the latest coronavirus cases affiliated with U.S. Forces Korea tested positive on their first test, while the other two received positive results on the exit test, USFK said.

One U.S. airman was killed and two others were injured in a single-vehicle accident while conducting a routine patrol in Kuwait, the military said Sunday.

At the time, Air Force and civilian contractor leaders had most workers employed remotely, a huge feat at Wright-Patterson, which remains Ohio’s largest single-site employer, with about 30,000 military and civilian employees.

The Air Force’s 18th Intelligence Squadron was deactivated then activated as the 73rd Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron, U.S. Space Force, during a recent ceremony held in the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force’s Space Gallery.

The KC-46 Pegasus is the U.S. Air Force's newest aircraft to to enter the service. It will eventually replace the six-decade old KC-135 Stratotanker.

Spin, the San Francisco-based company behind the new scooters at Edwards Air Force Base, hopes to roll out its service on other installations — including overseas and deployed locations

The new installation commander at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is nearing a decision that could allow up to half of the base’s workforce back within the fenceline — but that commander also cautioned that he has not made that decision yet.