If not for the Air Force, Ruth Alfred might never have written "As Iron Sharpens Iron: A Shepherd's Duty," the fictional story of a military chaplain's struggle to balance deployments, raising a family and counseling his flock.

Seven faculty researchers, 10 doctoral graduate students and two postdoctoral researchers from UConn's School of Engineering will work on projects.

The exhibit features seven pieces of art which were all once on the front of airplanes that are connected to Grissom Air Reserve Base or are on display at the museum.

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Seventy-five years after his fighter plane crashed in Austria, Tuskegee Airman Capt. Lawrence E. Dickson was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery on Friday as four Air Force jets roared overhead and his daughter and grandchildren looked on.

Some MacDill Air Force Base families who left their homes after finding toxic mold are waiting on compensation for moving expenses and damaged belongings.

Water continues to recede at Offutt Air Force Base and Camp Ashland in Nebraska, allowing work crews to enter and assess damage at buildings that flooded nearly a week ago when heavy rains and melting snow upstream overwhelmed levees and shorelines along the Missouri and Platte rivers.

The new infrastructure strategy would shift the Air Force from its approach of spending money to fix its structures in the worst shape to primarily investing in preventative maintenance throughout a structure’s life cycle.

Base officials currently believe the driver did not intentionally crash the car into the building, but the crash is still under investigation, according to a news release release.

Marines, airmen and soldiers recently practiced seizing a small Japanese island in an exercise that honed skills some experts say may be necessary in a face-off against China.

The U.S. has been flying bombers out of Guam throughout the region for more than a decade as part of the Air Force’s “continuous bomber” presence.

Demolition crews have begun clearing buildings at RAF Lakenheath, in eastern England, breaking down concrete and steel to make way for the U.S. military’s newest fighter jets.

Decked out in a kid-sized flight suit, Je’Moni Ford, 9, became the U.S. Air Force Academy’s “youngest cadet” this month, quickly advancing from the fourth grade straight into college — at least for a day.

The Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron’s “Rise Above” Traveling Exhibit at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport features a movie theater, a fully operational Red Tail P-51C Mustang, and appearances by Retired Tuskegee Airmen pilot Lt. Col. George E. Hardy.

At the State of the Base luncheon, Brig. Gen. John Kubinec, commander of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex, who announced a plan in August to hire 1,200 people in 12 months, said 886 people have been hired, while another 276 are in the hiring process.

On Tuesday, the Pease Greeters and Service Credit Union hosted a ribbon-cutting for the newly refurbished Malinda’s Room in the airport terminal, a center where troops traveling to or from Portsmouth, N.H., can call anywhere in the world for free.

Flood waters are expected to continue to recede through the week. Base officials plan to have environmental crews along with engineers and the fire department determine building safety and survey damage.

An equine team consisting of four registered quarter horses and six patrolmen helps protect the nearly 99,600 acres that make up Vandenberg Air Force Base, the third-largest Air Force base in the U.S.

The six B-52 Stratofortresses deployed to RAF Fairford will spend an undetermined amount of time at the base for training with U.S. forces and NATO allies, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian said Tuesday.

Sr. Airman Shawn Mckeough Jr., who was stationed at Little Rock Air Force Base, was fatally shot Friday, March 15, 2019, while attempting to stop an armed robbery at a gas station.

Tech. Sgt. Jacory Royster of the 36th Security Forces Squadron was found not guilty Friday of the most serious charge against him after a four-day court-martial.

Matthew Hayden, 44, died when the Cessna 421B multi-engine plane he was flying crashed. During his time in the Air Force, he had more than 2,500 flight hours in 30 types of aircraft, and he was an experimental test pilot in the F-16 and F-35.

The 3-year-old son of Airman 1st Class Darrelly Franken, who was recently assigned to Eglin Air Force Base, was killed by Franken's husband during a botched murder-suicide attempt.

The last air show at the base drew about 60,000 people in 2003. This year's headliner will be the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team. The U.S. Army Golden Knights also will appear.

A week after President Donald Trump presented his proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins in October, the Air Force spelled out a longer-range five-year plan on Monday that's sure to set off fierce congressional debate.

Military officials at both bases said Monday that they are surveying damage as they wait for the water to recede, which isn’t expected until Thursday.

A major event will be a visit by the historic C-47 aircraft, nicknamed "That's All Brother," which served as the lead aircraft of the 800 planes that dropped two American airborne divisions into France on June 5-6, 1944.

An Air Force spokeswoman said 60 buildings, mostly on the south end of the base, have been damaged, including about 30 completely inundated with as much as 8 feet of water.

Shawn McKeough, 23, a senior airman in the U.S. Air Force and a Westbrook native, attempted to stop a robbery when he was shot.

U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham wrote a letter to the president, suggesting Louisiana was an "ideal location" because of its strong existing relationships with the military and NASA.

The rebuilding of Tyndall Air Force Base is in line for a share of $9.2 billion in emergency funding included in the Department of Defense budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year designated in part for "unspecified military construction to ... rebuild facilities damaged by Hurricanes Florence and Michael."

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson approved sending an extra four aircraft, two mobile ground control stations and new training equipment to the New York Air National Guard base.

The Air Force satellite is the 10th in a constellation that will provide connectivity for U.S. military communications around the globe.

Citing air traffic control audio, news outlets reported that the green laser hit the left side of a U.S. Air Force C-17 cockpit that was 12 miles north of Charlotte-Douglas International Airport on Thursday night. The aircraft was about 3,000 feet in the air at the time.

The White House on Friday tapped an Air Force general with experience overseeing all U.S. and NATO air forces throughout Europe to lead U.S. European Command and serve as Supreme Allied Commander.

Residents near Hill Air Force Base in Utah can expect to hear night-flights through early April as pilots work to maintain their "night proficiency."

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The missions follow the trend of freedom-of-navigation operations the Navy conducts in the region to challenge what the service calls China’s “excessive maritime claims.”

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald asked Maj. Gen. Donald Dunbar for a review of Guard policies and recommendations for strengthening them in February after he met with a female soldier who alleges she was harassed and the perpetrator wasn't punished.

The first of the Barksdale Air Force Base, La.-based long-range strategic bombers were expected to arrive Thursday, with more coming throughout the weekend, U.S. Air Forces in Europe said in a statement.

Air Force Reserve Lt. Col. Michael B. Black has been charged with multiple counts of sexually assaulting a female senior airman while deployed to Uganda two years ago.

Tyndall Air Force Base was severely damaged by Hurricane Michael in October, while Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Stations New River and Cherry Point were devastated by severe flooding after Hurricane Florence in September.

During a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on sexual assault in the military, Arizona Sen. Martha McSally delivered an emotional statement revealing her own abuse and her fear of reporting it.

The Air Force budget includes $72.4 million to establish a Space Force headquarters within the Air Force Department, including a new four-star general who would lead the organization and sit on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

An Air Force Ethics Office announcement comes amid confusion over how ownership of pot-related businesses might affect determinations of suitability for federal employment and security clearance adjudication for the Pentagon’s civilian and military workforce.

Conservationists are rallying around a pair of legislative resolutions opposing the U.S. Air Force's proposed expansion of a bombing training range they say would threaten big horn sheep and other wildlife at a national refuge in southern Nevada.

SpaceX has some good news for West Coast space junkies: The commercial space company is expected to launch its Falcon 9 rocket once again from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc in May.

The base in Japan took time to remember the eighth anniversary of a combination of disasters that killed more than 15,000 people.

This is the Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range. Military pilots from across the country come to the roughly 1.7-million-acre expanse to blow up replica targets from jets in the desert sky.

Military Working Dog Kimba, an 11-year-old Belgian Malinois serving with JBER's 673rd Security Forces Squadron, retired in a ceremony attended by four of her canine comrades. Her career had included everything from foot patrols of the base to drug detection to demonstration patrols.

Benjamin Andrade, a maintenance foreman at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, faces up to one year in federal prison after pleading guilty to accepting $800 in December 2014 in exchange for awarding a contract to a Tucson refrigeration company.

Last year, some 1,100 students attended MacDill Air Force Base's STEAM Day, making it the largest event of its kind in the Air Force. This year’s attendance doubled that record number.

The dismissal of a former Spangdahlem fighter pilot’s 2014 rape conviction last month marks the latest in overturned rape convictions, following the U.S. military’s top appellate court’s decision last year to impose a statute of limitations on years-old rape cases.

Col. Michael Hough, the commander of the Vandenberg Air Force Base's 30th Space Wing, said there is currently just one rocket launch on the base’s 2019 manifest, but added that the total should rise significantly in the years ahead.

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson will resign as the service’s top civilian at the end of May once she is formally named the next president of the University of Texas at El Paso, she said Friday in a letter to President Donald Trump.

The Pentagon emphasizes the need to boost the combat readiness and modernize weaponry in an era of “great power competition.” But with planes and ships that would be called upon in a crisis in disrepair, it’s not clear the military could get equipment and troops to combat zones, lawmakers said.

Members of the 43rd Fighter Squadron and their F-22 Raptors will periodically be returning to the base from Eglin Air Force Base, where they're currently stationed.

People in two Wright-Patterson Air Force Base facilities were forced to shelter in place Wednesday due to a chemical leak.

On Wednesday night, more than 400 Air Force Academy cadets were treated to an early screening of the superhero film "Captain Marvel" at the Cinemark theater at Cinema Point.

Photos with strangers. A kid who insists on calling you "Daddy Captain Marvel." And a little twinge of regret that you won't get to keep the moniker when you get promoted. Those are just a few of the experiences of the actual Capt. Marvels.

The flight test is a major step forward for an experimental "loyal wingman" concept that envisions small robotic drones accompanying fighter jets into combat, scout ahead or absorb enemy fire.

"Like you, I am also a military sexual assault survivor," Sen. Martha McSally said during a congressional hearing. "But unlike so many brave survivors, I didn't report the sexual assault."

A U.S. B-52 bomber was sent near disputed islands in the South China Sea and another circumnavigated Japan, conducting joint military exercises with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, the U.S. Pacific Air Forces said Wednesday.

Air Force security troops are switching out their 30-year-old pistols for a new 9 mm M18 SIG Sauer Modular Handgun System, the service has announced.

The cutback from the 84 fighters projected a year ago for fiscal 2020 is a setback for Lockheed, the No. 1 defense contractor, even as interest in the plane from foreign buyers increases.

Six months into the 2019 federal fiscal year, Vance Air Force Base is building on a number of recently completed and soon-to-be implemented infrastructure and technology projects.

The Air Force said Friday that it won't accept delivery of any more KC-46 tankers until Boeing's manufacturing process is cleaned up.

Military families who have complained about mold and other issues with the privately-run housing at MacDill Air Force Base were visited Friday by the Air Force's top civilian official.

Training flights resumed Thursday morning after approximately a week's downtime, during which Boeing worked with the Air Force on how to resolve the production problems.

The sister of an Air Force flight surgeon who went missing during the Vietnam War urged Macon-Bibb County, Ga. officials to not rename an interstate interchange currently named in honor of her brother.

Highly complex, multi-million dollar supercomputers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base will now support classified data work for missions across the U.S. Department of Defense, which will save billions in defense and taxpayer dollars.

The Honolulu Police Department has opened an investigation into the girl’s death, according to a police spokeswoman. A neighbor said she had repeatedly reported the day care to military police and the Army housing authority for unsafe conditions.

Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, said the New START treaty benefits the American military by capping Russia's baseline strategic nuclear force and offering "unbelievably important" insight through inspections into what Russia is doing.

The Colorado Springs City Council soon will be asked to declare 40 acres of untouched foothills on the Air Force Academy as an urban renewal area, a designation that would earmark millions of dollars in tax revenue for a new visitors center at the academy.

The visitors center, one of four City for Champions projects meant to spur local tourism, would be part of a development with hotels, office space and restaurants.

The maternity ward at Langley Air Force Base Hospital will stay open after all — at least for now, according to the Air Force.

Problems in areas like maintenance, reliability and safety has meant the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle is less desirable than older vehicles in some circumstances, according to an annual report by the Director of Operational Test & Evaluation for the Defense Department.

Last spring, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources warned Truax Air National Guard base in Madison it could face enforcement action if it didn’t move swiftly to clean up toxic chemicals that were showing up in municipal drinking water. But responses have been slow in coming.

President Donald Trump may sacrifice a security fence for the Air Force in Upstate New York to build the wall he wants on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The flyover, the first to commemorate the crash of a B-17G Flying Fortress nicknamed “Mi Amigo,” had been long sought by a local resident who for years has tended a memorial to the crew of the downed bomber.

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Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said in a visit to Capitol Hill in June 2017 that she opposed the creation of a "Space Corps," a service some lawmakers had proposed to oversee military operations in space. Less than two years later, Wilson finds herself leading a similar effort directed this week by President Trump.

Before dawn, 20 special tactics airmen began on Friday an 830-mile ruck march honoring Staff Sgt. Dylan J. Elchin, a special tactics combat controller from Hookstown, Pa., killed in Afghanistan in late November, and 19 other special tactics airmen killed in the line of duty since 9/11.

The Joint Typhoon Warning Center upgraded Wutip, with winds of 75 mph and gusts up to 90 mph, to a typhoon that day. It was forecast to pass 167 miles southwest of Andersen at 5 a.m. Sunday, possibly as a Category-3 storm.

That’s an increase of $276 million over the 2017 fiscal year, Col. Lyle Drew, 78th Air Base Wing commander, told media representatives Thursday.

Even a two-star general has “moments of darkness,” the Air Force chief of chaplains told servicemembers Thursday at the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo.

Clarence Anderson III was convicted of sexual assault against his then-wife in 2015, which led to his dismissal from the U.S. Air Force.

Congress still has to approve the plan, but if passed, Space Force would be the first new military branch since the formation of the Air Force in 1947.

Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria, the academy’s superintendent, said that the cameras will help to build a “culture of accountability” and help instill a sense of responsibility among the cadets.

The National Air and Space Intelligence Center, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, likely will bring in more funding and interest with the creation of the Space Force, said Loren Thompson, a senior defense analyst with the Virginia-based Lexington Institute.

Pacific Air Forces’ largest multilateral exercise, which kicked off Monday, is designed to enhance air operations among the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps as well as the Japan Air Self-Defense Force and Royal Australian Air Force.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, F-22 Raptor fighter jets moved to Eglin Air Force Base from Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida. Now, lawmakers in Virginia are trying to permanently retain these aircraft in their state.

According to court documents, Staff Sgt. Ryan Houghtalen told a woman he met at church that her life was in danger, he was a CIA agent, and that they were both targets of ISIS.

The new directive is expected to impact about 1,000 airmen, or about 0.5 percent of the Air Force, who have been considered non-deployable for at least 12 months. Those individuals face separation.

The Pentagon will include funding for the Space Force in its fiscal year 2020 budget proposal, which is expected to be sent to Congress next month, White House officials said Tuesday, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

A congressional watchdog has criticized the Defense Department’s debt collection procedures, saying it needs to do a better job of informing servicemembers of their rights when told they owe the government money — often through no fault of their own.

The new F-15X for the U.S. would be a variation on planes sold to Qatar but would be able to carry heavier loads of air-to-ground and air-to-air weapons than current F-15s, or the F-35s.

MacDill Air Force Base, Mayport Naval Base and Eglin Air Force Base are among the locations with projects in jeopardy, according to a list of eligible projects compiled by the House Appropriations Committee.