Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is creating a formal board to review the Aug. 2 active shooter scare that occurred at the base’s hospital.

A commander at Minot Air Force Base says the 22-year-old man killed in a motorcycle crash over the weekend was a senior airman.

The three planes were sent to South Korea to cover all contingencies, Stenstad said. The two C-17s that didn’t fly into North Korea were used to transport the remains to Hawaii.

The RAGBRAI, which stands for the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, is seven consecutive days in July and participants typically camp at designated towns along the route. It's the world's largest week-long bicycle ride.

For Catherine Snelson, 42, a former Air Force major, daughter of an Air Force colonel and wife of a base commander, moving is life. Her husband, an Air Force colonel, took over at MacDill on June 28.

A RAND Corp. study found that women leave military service earlier than men because of conflicts that tear at their families and personal lives.

Nearly 100 years after Lt. Erwin Bleckley's death, members of Wichita's VFW Post 112 are hoping to bring back his Medal of Honor display and the only remaining factory-built restored DH-4 airplane to Wichita for Bleckley Day on Oct. 6.

A new judge has been assigned to preside at Guantanamo’s stalled trial of a Saudi man accused of plotting al-Qaida’s suicide bombing of the USS Cole warship off Yemen in 2000 that killed 17 U.S. sailors.

In the newly released 1.5-minute Air Force video, Tech Sgt. John Chapman can be seen charging up a steep slope toward enemy positions to recover a fellow servicemember who had fallen from the back after the team came under heavy enemy fire from al-Qaida.

Hill Air Force Base officials say northern Utah residents can expect increased flight activity at the base near Ogden into late August as aircraft from units based at Hill and elsewhere participate in two training exercises.

Brig. Gen. Mark R. August took command Thursday of the 86th Airlift Wing, a job that puts him in charge of more than 8,500 airmen in four locations across Europe and the busiest U.S. military airport on the Continent.

The crews from the 302nd Airlift Wing at Peterson Air Force Base will use specially-equipped C-130 transports to drop retardant to slow the advance of fires that have blackened 601,000 acres in California in recent weeks.

The New England Patriots used multiple Air Force Academy outdoor practice fields and the indoor Holaday Athletic Center in November to prepare for the altitude of Mexico City, where they played the Oakland Raiders.

Retention - as part of overall force development - along with the fight against Islamic extremism and general aviation, are among the common ground being covered between U.S. airmen and 34 African representatives during the African Partnership Flight program at Ramstein.

Drinking water laced with high levels of poisonous chemicals may be to blame for cancer and other chronic disease among veterans and families who lived at Wurtsmith Air Force Base in northern Michigan, according to a new federal health report draft.

The National Defense Authorization Act, which President Donald Trump is expected to sign next week, will fund a $182-million expansion of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson.

The U.S. Air Force is dismissing reports a meteor strike last month destroyed Thule Air Base, which is home to the missile warning system and space surveillance networks for the North American Aerospace Defense Command and Air Force Space Command.

The 18th said it would not release further details about the nature of the allegations against Col. Ethan Griffin now, citing the ongoing investigation led by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

Col. Michael Foutch, commander of the 88th medical group at Wright-Patterson Medical Center, thanked workers via email a day after the scare at the hospital for their help on what he referred to as “a difficult and stressful day.”

Following more than five years of delays, the world’s most advanced centrifuge is now fully operational and Air Force fighter pilots will begin using it in October at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Finishing his first year at the academy, Superintendent Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria says the school will graduate more prospective pilots in 2019 than any time in the past 30 years.

Officials at Barksdale Air Force Base say Airman 1st Class Isaiah Edwards is in custody, charged with the murder of Airman 1st Class Bradley Hale.

For about two hours on Thursday, a chaotic scene played out on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base after a report of an active shooter at the hospital in Area A.

The New Mexico Air National Guard's 150th Special Operations Wing has its first female commander, a colonel who has deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as a combat rescue helicopter pilot.

A photo that shows damage to drywall at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base medical center was taken by a civilian employee who claims it shows damage resulting from Thursday’s active shooter response.

Col. Esther Sablan comes to New Mexico’s 150th from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where she served as Chief of the Force Planning and Strategic Basing Division of the Air National Guard Readiness Center.

The practice drill that went awry after a 911 call caused a widespread lock down involving the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Medical Center wasn’t the first emergency mix up the local police have responded to – but it was definitely the largest in scale.

Officials said the incident occurred during a scheduled installation exercise, which included an active shooter scenario. In an attempt to breach a locked door, a security forces member discharged his firearm to open the door and continue sweeping the building.

An inquiry was launched after the employee at the base's Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations twice offered a Department of Defense inspection team a look at the remains of the former senator and first American to orbit the Earth during a week-long inspection of the facility in late February and early March 2017.

After years of negotiations, the Tucson Airport Authority has given tentative approval to a plan by the Air National Guard to build a new main gate to the 162nd Wing base at Tucson International Airport.

The move is just one of several improvements under development in the Air Force. Other changes would include assigning support staff directly to units, and encouraging staff sergeants to remain in service longer.

The Spangdahlem airman found unresponsive on a German roadway and declared dead Tuesday afternoon has been identified as Staff Sgt. Justin Vandervort, base officials said Thursday.

The Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base and the ABQid business accelerator have launched a new Hyperspace Challenge to pair startups working on data analytics with defense-related innovators to resolve space-related challenges.

Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility is being used by researchers to develop a renewable energy that could fill a gap in the capabilities of photovoltaic and wind energy.

A military panel earlier this month sentenced Andrew Witt to life in prison without parole in the stabbing deaths of a fellow airman and his wife in Georgia. It was his second sentencing in the case. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2005.

The Air Force Academy class of 2022 is days away from completing basic cadet training, but before basics can leave Jacks Valley, they must complete two iconic rites of passage.

Air Force mothers now may wear T-shirts in uniform that let them more easily breastfeed their babies. The Army changed its dress code in April to allow the T-shirts, while the Navy and Marines still don’t authorize them.

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Fifty-five cases presumed to be holding the remains of U.S. troops killed in the Korean War began their journey home Wednesday after a formal send-off at Osan Air Base.

The first graduates of Pilot Training Next — a six-month program at the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Austin, Texas, designed to accelerate the learning curve to becoming a pilot — are slated to pin on their wings Friday.

Chief Master Sgt. Kaleth O. Wright said the service is examining the merits of allowing staff sergeants to extend their time from 15 to 20 years. He said extending the amount of time airmen can serve in grade could help with retention and that the idea could eventually be expanded to include technical sergeants.

Around 1,200 Air Force pilots per year will train in the centrifuge, according to the base. The $34.4 million centrifuge will test the limits of thousands of military pilots over the next several decades.

Col. Anne Noel assumed the position of 434th Air Refueling Wing vice commander, the first woman to hold the position since Grissom was transitioned to an Air Force Reserve base in 1994.

A defense policy bill that passed the House and is headed for Senate approval would funnel more than $130 million to Colorado Springs-area bases for construction and the biggest pay raise in years for troops, but stops short of President Donald Trump’s dream of a separate military service for space missions.

For more than 60 years, remnants of a wrecked U.S. Air Force plane were lost in the Alaska Range, buried beneath ice and snow, on a glacier snaking through a mountainside. For generations, families had no hope of recovering the bodies of 19 service members killed in the 1952 crash. Until now.

Bradley Kim, a defensive back at the Air Force Academy, announced on Friday that he is gay. Kim, who shared his story on his Instagram account and through an interview with OutSports, is the first active player at a service academy to publicly come out.

President Donald Trump will posthumously award the Medal of Honor to Tech. Sgt. John A. Chapman for his actions in 2002 on Takur Ghar mountain in Afghanistan. He will become the first airman to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War, and just the 19th in the service’s history.

Air Force and Marine Corps aviators, along with participants from 16 nations, are engaging in simulated combat above Australia’s Northern Territory during Exercise Pitch Black, which began Friday.

Andrew Morcombe, an Air Force veteran, was convicted of international parental kidnapping, a crime that kept the young girl away from her mother for two years.

George Boyd, who died last month at the age of 91, was a part of the Tuskegee Airmen, black military aviators who were pioneers in the eventual integration of the armed services.

Airman 1st Class Mikhahael Ragay is currently in critical condition in a comatose state. His family flew out to Osan Air Base in South Korea to be with him.

Since Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine, the military has expanded missions in Eastern Europe, where U.S. troops rotations have steadily increased. USAFE has a year-round mission in Poland manned by a rotating group of troops.

As a young man, back in the 1960s, Robert Gleason served four years active duty in the Air Force before joining the reserves. Now, he has been appointed to a special board to advise the Air Force Academy.

The first phase of that training consisted of learning Air Force history and customs, team building exercises and the military mainstay — marching.

The National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is set to get more construction funding than ever before.

A human factors psychologist at Old Dominion University recently wrapped up a nearly $800,000 project funded by the Air Force that exposed people to scenarios involving armed robots.

For Air Force Staff Sgt. James Grotjan, who went by his middle name, Tyler, family was number one. He was the family's rock, what kept them together. What's keeping them together now is that he died doing what he loved.

In a program that showed off tight bonds between military cops and their civilian counterparts, the Fountain Police Department used Air Force Academy land last week to train in scenarios that included spurned lovers, car chases and officer-involved shootings.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Peter Taub, who grew up near the post office in Wyncote, Pa., was killed in a suicide attack while on patrol near Bagram Air Field.

A U.S. Air Force fighter jet intercepted a small general aviation aircraft flying near President Donald Trump's private golf club Saturday.

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Capt. Phil Cole, part of the Air Force Reserve based in Portland who led a pararescue squad that assisted in the operation, said the climber seemed dazed after getting off the mountain. He shook the hands of all the rescuers after and thanked them before being driven to a hospital for evaluation.

“We’re looking at retention, as well as producing more pilots,” Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson said. “It’s better if you retain.”

Olson has not hidden what happened. She describes it in detail in the final chapters of her 2006 book, “Iraq and Back: Inside the War to Win the Peace,” which is for sale at events for her Texas Agriculture Commissioner campaign events.

U.S. Air Force data released Friday showed that aircraft released 2,911 bombs and missiles over Afghanistan during the first half of 2018 — a higher number for that period than during the surge of 2010, when about 100,000 American troops were in the country.

The Air Force’s largest transport hub in the Far East has a new leader and he happens to be the second-highest scorer in Air Force Academy basketball history.

Two homes are being provided bottled water after high levels of contaminants possibly connected to a nearby military base were discovered in their drinking water wells.

F-22 pilots are not meeting annual training requirements, according to Air Force reports and service officials, the GAO report stated. In addition, the use of F-22s for exercises and operational missions that don’t require the aircraft’s unique capabilities disrupt pilot training and lead to reduced proficiency, the report stated.

Staff Sergeant Jose Antonio Ramirez, an airman assigned to the 27th Special Operations Contracting Squadron at Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico, was found dead on July 14.

Cotton estimated that he started playing the game when he first entered the Air Force. He fell in love right away, and later built a court inside his Illinois home.

A year and a half after President Trump first blasted the cost of the presidential planes as “out of control,” aerospace giant Boeing Co. has officially landed the $3.9-billion contract for the next generation of Air Force One jumbo jets.

Herschel Walker, who rushed for more than 8,000 yards in his 13 years in the NFL, has toured military bases for nearly a decade in an effort to promote wellness and end the stigma of mental illness.

Adrian Cronauer, the Air Force veteran loosely portrayed by Robin Williams in "Good Morning, Vietnam," died from an age-related illness. He had lived in Troutville, Virginia, and died at a local nursing home.

Cannon Air Force Base will be given jurisdiction in the shooting, which involved two airmen who police say had consumed alcohol.

A prominent Bay Area civil rights attorney is alleging that a 5-year-old child was sexually molested by other minors multiple times at a Travis Air Force Base child care center.

The four-day intensive exercise on creating live munitions in an austere environment provided planning and production techniques normally seen only at the Air Force Combat Ammunition Center at Beale Air Force Base, Calif.

Col. Kristopher Struve became the wing’s 66th commander Monday when he accepted the unit colors from Col. Scott Jobe. Struve won the prestigious Mackay Trophy for the “most meritorious flight” of 2007.

A 37-year-old airman assigned to the 19th Air Support Operations Squadron at Fort Campbell, Kentucky was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead Saturday in a Rocky Mount, Missouri lake.

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The new paint job for a global symbol of U.S. power would replace the blue, light blue and white color scheme that dates to the Kennedy era.

Celebrating its 29th year, the Wings of Freedom Tour flies vintage World War II planes to an average of 110 cities in more than 35 states annually.

The pending lawsuits say Hunt Southern Group LLC, which owns the houses, and property manager Hunt MH Property Management LLC failed to fix underlying moisture problems with the houses, despite “repeated requests” for relief.

The changes eliminate minimum hair length for females but set a maximum bulk of 3 ½ inches from the scalp and mandate hairstyles that allow a cover to sit properly on the head. Dreadlocks must be tightly fused or interwoven and present a neat and professional appearance.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, along with aerospace giant Boeing Co., is developing a reusable spaceplane expected to launch small satellites 10 times in 10 days.

Officials said last week that the Air Force paid about $10,000 each to replace toilet seat covers on the C-5 Galaxy, a Vietnam-era military cargo plane that is still in service, at least three times and as recently as last year.

A U.S. Air Force bombing exercise initially slated for Monday over Lake Huron has been postponed, a day after leaders of Bell's Beer Bayview Mackinac sailboat race sent out an "extremely important warning" to its participants that the military training might interfere with the race route.

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About 65 U.S. troops will provide humanitarian assistance to Vanuatu during Operation Pacific Angel. The South Pacific island is suspected to be under consideration by China as a location for a potential overseas military base.

Air Force steamrolled their would-be challengers Friday night at the Armed Services Classic, holding Army scoreless through four innings and cruising to a 9-2 softball victory at Nationals Park.

“With this milestone complete, the test program has demonstrated a level of maturity that positions Boeing to deliver, and the Air Force to accept, an aircraft by the end of October 2018,” said Will Roper, Air Force service acquisition executive, in a news release.

Air Force Staff Sgt. James T. Grotjan, 26, of Waterford, Connecticut died at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany on Thursday from injuries sustained in a non-combat related incident on Sunday at Al Dhafra Air Base.

Weeks after criticism from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the Department of Defense released a draft report showing that Stewart Air National Guard Base and a stream carrying discharges from the base to the City of Newburgh's shuttered primary water supply have significant levels of a toxic chemical associated with numerous health problems.

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"Even though the odds seemed impossible, what I've always been taught is to take risk and be bold when the situation calls for it — and this situation absolutely did," U.S. Air Force Maj. Charles Hodges told CBS This Morning.

The U.S. Air Force just rolled out its new enlisted personnel handbook, and it’s changing up the way enlisted airmen will address senior master sergeants.

The tanker base, a partnership between the Colorado Springs Airport, Fort Carson and Peterson Air Force Base, has allowed military and commercial firefighting planes to get a rapid retardant fill-up that is just minutes by air from fires across Colorado and Wyoming.

A hacker stole information about combat drones and personnel assignments from an Air Force officer’s computer and sought to sell some of the documents. Among the pilfered files was a recent certificate of completion for Cyber Awareness Challenge training.

State Department spokesman Steve Castonguay in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand, where the operation unfolded, said in an email Tuesday that Thai authorities had the lead with about 40 American servicemembers in support.

An Ohio construction and property management company will be spending millions to renovate military housing near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

The Air Force is assessing damage to aircraft at Andersen Air Force Base caused by Tropical Storm Maria as it passed over Guam Thursday.