Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael Loh flew in a Boeing CH-47 Chinook to Grand Junction to make a special announcement to veterans on the Western Slope: An old Colorado National Guard Armory will soon become a central location for services veterans need.

Friday’s strike on a security forces compound in Gereshk district was part of a U.S.-supported operation against Taliban militants in the area.

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The 86th Airlift Wing hosted its fourth annual Mudless Mudder on resiliency day at Ramstein Air Base on Friday.

U.S. servicemembers and British dignitaries welcomed Col. Christopher Amrhein as the new commander of the 100th Air Refueling Wing on Friday.

The U.S. Air Force has yet to stand up a squadron of F-35s in Europe, but it’s already working on how to integrate the fifth-generation combat jet with some of its closest allies in the region.

The plane’s crew, assigned to the 60th Air Mobility Wing at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., noticed the failure while taxiing to the runway. There were no injuries.

The Pentagon's Silicon Valley office is developing several new computer programs for the U.S. military's air operations center running the bombing campaign against the Islamic State, one of its largest efforts since launching two years ago.

The billions of dollars that Texas has spent on border security in recent years will no longer include a lengthy Texas National Guard deployment.

The stand-down of the Delaware base’s C-5s was ordered Monday by Air Force Gen. Carlton Everhart II, commander of Air Mobility Command, who cited safety concerns. The order only impacts the 18 C-5 aircraft – twelve primary and six backup planes – based at Dover.

A senior U.S. military leader says his bank account was targeted as part of a massive government data breach and dealing with the hack was a distraction from his job.

Airman Cameron Ashley Owens faces a court-martial, though no date has been set, said Capt. Tom Barger, chief of public affairs for the 31st Fighter Wing. He has been in military custody since he was suspected of committing the acts in the early morning hours of April 11.

A new colonel took charge of the 940th Air Refueling Wing at Beale Air Force Base on Sunday during a change of command ceremony on the flight line.

While it has been more than 75 years since the birth of Civil Air Patrol — created during a time of world conflict to protect America's shores — it has been five decades since CAP's headquarters was moved to Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.

Robins Air Force Base photographer Claude Lazzara spends most of his days shooting official portraits in the studio, but his mornings begin with a search for the best sunrise shot on his souped up cellphone.

Last October, while Senior Airman Kai’ea Hokoana was on leave from his post at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, he and his then-fiancée, now wife, Veulah Hokoana, were going to a wake for one of Kai’ea’s family members in Hawaii.

The legislation requires the Pentagon to report to Congress on the status of developing an alternative to perflourinated chemicals – also known as PFCs – that were found in firefighting foam used at Wurtsmith and elsewhere.

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Residents of Great Britain were greeted with a rare sight in the sky Monday from flyovers of the U.S. Air Force’s Thunderbirds over popular sights like RAF Duxford, Stonehenge and Loch Ness.

A verdict is expected later this month for an Army contractor facing assault and weapons charges stemming from a “physical altercation” at Misawa Air Base, Japan.

Brig. Gen. Case Cunningham, who was recently promoted to brigadier general, took command of the 18th Wing — also known as the Shoguns. The force he leads includes nearly 18,000 Americans and more than 4,000 Japanese employees and contractors.

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A Japanese Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptor will deploy next month to the headquarters of U.S. Forces Japan and the 5th Air Force in Tokyo, Japanese media reports say.

Two Republican lawmakers are questioning the Air Force about alleged improprieties in the way it acquires multimillion-dollar aircraft.

More than 48 years after his plane was shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War, the uncertainty about Air Force Capt. Robert Edwin Holton of Butte is over.

Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton announced it would conduct an aircraft crash exercise on Thursday and people in the vicinity may see or smell smoke.

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For Selfridge Air National Guard Base, it's not just about the prestige of having the U.S. Air Force's newest fighter jets, the F-35s. It's about securing the future of the 100-year-old military airfield and jobs for its 4,400 workers at 44 tenants at the Harrison Township military base.

A 28-year-old man facing federal charges in a pipe bomb explosion outside a northeast Oklahoma Air Force recruiting center "turned to hate" after he couldn't complete the training required to become a certified electrician in that branch of the military, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

The film, which began production this week, follows the lives of the three friends from childhood to the evening when they helped subdue a suspected terrorist who opened fire inside a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris.

White linens, blue flowers and period piano music from the 1940s filled the Cactus Hotel on Saturday for a donated wedding to remember.

A ballistic missile target that was launched by an Air Force C-17 cargo plane over the Pacific, north of Hawaii, was successfully intercepted by a defensive missile in a test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, officials said.

Federal authorities said Tuesday that they are no longer investigating a pipe bomb explosion that damaged a northeast Oklahoma Air Force recruiting station as a possible act of domestic terrorism, adding that the blast could be the work of a disgruntled employee or a prank.

The Air Force, which currently oversees the Space Command wing, is vehemently opposed to a dedicated space service, saying that would only complicate the defense bureaucracy.

A former Air Force security squadron staff sergeant was found guilty Friday of sexually assaulting an Aurora woman in her home while he videotaped the crime on his phone, the 18th Judicial District Attorney's Office announced.

Boecore Inc. won its biggest prime contract in its 17-year history last month from the Air Force, a five-year, $93 million deal to provide near real-time early warning of ballistic missile launches to U.S. military commands and allied nations.

Air Force reserve personnel have rescued two German citizens after their sailboat caught fire far out at sea.

Bird advocates are hailing the National Guard Bureau's decision not to build a commercial-scale wind turbine at Camp Perry near Ohio's western Lake Erie shoreline.

A pair of supersonic bombers fired inert weapons at a range in South Korea, the Air Force said Saturday, in a show of force days after North Korea tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile.

According to the Department of Environmental Protection, 10,000 gallons of a toxic chemical, methylene chloride, was released during Wednesday's fire, which occurred in the air-handling system of a building near the McKinley Climatic Laboratory.

After years of shrinking almost everything — from the size of its fleet of airplanes and fighter squadrons to its active-duty forces — the Air Force is looking to expand, Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson said.

Parts of two moving-truck containers that appeared to have traces of potentially explosive material have been sent to the state police crime lab for testing after they triggered a partial evacuation yesterday of Hanscom Air Force Base, authorities said.

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In his custom flight-suit, Jay Davidson was the center of attention. The 5-year-old got an up-close look inside the control tower and explored static displays of a CV-22 Osprey, C-130 Hercules and a KC-135 Stratotanker.

U.S. airmen are quietly closing in on five years of operations in Poland, where members of the 52nd Fighter Wing have staked a small but growing year-round presence aimed at building up allied airpower.

One of Yokota’s new C-130J Super Hercules has completed its first operational mission, carrying about 12,000 pounds of training equipment to Japan from the Philippines.

Analysts typically take part in strikes or witness acts of killing every two to three weeks. In between, they spend hours watching scenes of everyday life unfold on their screens: children playing, women shopping, men gathering for evening prayers.

An upcoming Air Force competition that includes two Wichita-built military planes has taken on more importance following actions by a Senate panel.

It started as something to do in 2012 — visit Disneyland every day. Now, more than five years later, Jeff Reitz, 44, has passed through the Magic Kingdom’s turnstiles every day since for more than 2,000 days in a row.

New Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson stood in front of a room of airmen in the Pentagon recently and presented an unconventional proposal. What, she asked, if she eliminated every single one of the Air Force's regulations and required service members to ask for the ones they need back?

Allegheny County paid a $110,000 settlement to a county public defender who returned from a U.S. Air Force deployment in 2013 to find that he no longer had a job.

About $65 million in construction projects are in the works at a North Dakota air force base.

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Beale Air Force Base conducted the LGBT Pride 5K Color Run last week, coinciding with LBGT Month, recognizing gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning servicemen and women.

Yokota pilots underwent months of training on the J model, which boasts more advanced avionics compared to the venerable H model that’s being phased out.

The Air Force, which trains flight surgeons in aerospace medicine, has a shortage of about 50 doctors with a specialty in family medicine, said Lt. Gen. Mark A. Ediger, Air Force surgeon general.

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The 86th Medical Group conducted a mass casualty exercise at Ramstein Air Base on Thursday, the culmination of a biannual recertification course.

The Rev. Brad Jantz, a graduate of the Air Force Academy and six-year Air Force veteran, was ordained as Catholic priest last weekend in Birmingham, Ala.

Two House Democrats want to compel the Air Force to detail how much has been spent on trips that President Donald Trump has made to his Florida estate and other properties that he and his family own.

The freshmen, the vast majority straight out of high school, will experience a wild first day of college that upperclassmen have been readying for months. In mere hours, they'll go from "rainbows" in civilian clothes to doolies in uniform.

Organizers blamed low attendance at this year’s Vectren Dayton Air Show on the cancellation of the Air Force Thunderbirds as the headline act due to a crash and record rainfall Friday that caused parking delays.

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U.S. Air Force firefighters on Monday extinguished the raging inferno of a prop aircraft with a steady blast from the twin water cannons of a fire truck during a live-fire exercise on base.

A pair of Air Force colonels began new jobs on the Peninsula this week, one overseeing Joint Base Langley Eustis and the other taking command of the 1st Fighter Wing.

A tornado that struck in Omaha last week damaged two of the “Doomsday” 747 aircraft that serve as the national command center for the United States in the case of an attack, the Air Force said Friday.

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U.S. European Command released a series of photos Friday that captured the close encounter earlier this week between a Russian fighter and a U.S. Air Force surveillance plane flying over the Baltic Sea.

Maj. David Mueller has assumed command of Yokota’s 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron as the base’s aging fleet of C-130H cargo planes are replaced by newer J models.

The increased pay is part of an effort to retain airmen in critical fields. Airmen who are eligible could see up to an additional $615 a month in their pay.

Remains found in 1982 have been identified as an airman from New Mexico who went missing in 1974.

As many as 135 patients could have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis at a U.S. air base in Qatar because medical equipment wasn’t properly cleaned during examinations in an eight-year period.

The House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee’s portion of the fiscal 2018 defense authorization bill, released on Tuesday, calls for a separate service dedicated to defending space, a responsibility that currently falls under the Air Force’s purview.

An RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned surveillance aircraft crashed Wednesday in an uninhabited area in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountain range.

The National Guard plans to drop funding for its Operation Snowbird visiting-unit training program, operated at Davis-Monthan Air Force base by the Air National Guard 162nd Wing, according to court documents.

A water line break near Turner Park caused the water system pressure to drop and possibly allowed “harmful impurities” to enter, according to a news release. Turner Park occupants are asked to boil all water for at least one full minute after reaching a rolling boil and allow it to cool before using.

The commander of the Vermont National Guard says the state's Army guard members will be ready, if asked, for a major operation in late 2019.

The Air Force Academy plowed $2.6 million into an unprecedented public relations effort to polish its image after a series of scandals involving athletes at the school.

A science teacher specialist at Hampton City Schools, McAllister was at the marina at Langley Air Force Base with educators and two dozen fifth-graders from Booker Elementary who had arrived to build the school's first oyster reef on the Back River. "Here come your babies!" McAllister shouted. "Here come your babies!"

The Air Force plans to get its F-35s at Luke Air Force Base flying again Tuesday, but with restrictions to prevent more of the oxygen deprivation incidents that led to their grounding.

David Howe chose to aim high when he applied to all five U.S. military service academies. It paid off.

A Pentagon effort to incubate businesses in Silicon Valley may be bearing some of its first fruit, as a San Diego company rolls out a set of new drones it says could accompany human-piloted fighters into combat.

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German, Polish and Hungarian weather troops attended a training event hosted by the 7th Weather Squadron at McCully Barracks in Wackernheim, Germany.

The Air Force is holding another large-scale exercise in the Powder River Training Complex in the Northern Plains.

Secretary Wilson, a former New Mexico congresswoman and a prior Air Force officer, was named to the top civilian post in the service branch in January.

Staff Sgt. Lesli Pape said Monday's Pride event was one of 11 observances throughout the year to promote acceptance of and equal opportunity for people from a variety of ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds.

The Air Force has extended its stand-down of F-35s at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona to determine what has caused a string of oxygen system failures in its newest fighter jet.

The missile hardware dates to the 1960s, the same era when the U.S. aerospace industry built the Apollo spacecraft that took men to the moon. Unlike the moon rockets, the ICBMs are still are still at work.

No specific threat prompted the historic deployment of all three Air Force Global Strike Command strategic bombers to the European theater, 3rd Air Force commander Lt. Gen. Richard Clark said Monday.

The Air Force has again signaled it wants to eliminate three squadrons of A-10 Thunderbolt II jets, permanently grounding the aging aircraft, according to U.S. Rep. Martha McSally.

The U.S. Air Force has ordered a stand-down of its F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft at an Arizona base after pilots there said they suffered oxygen deprivation while flying the plane built by Lockheed Martin Corp.

As a high school student, Maj. Nate Hofmann was focused on moving onward and upward, riding his passion for flying to a career with the U.S. Air Force.

The 10-hour operation between the Guam-based B-1B Lancers and the San Diego-based USS Sterett was designed to refine joint tactics and procedures between the services and “increase confidence in their ability to fight together."

Moody Air Force Base changed its conceal carry policy, allowing for privately owned guns to be secured in vehicles on base during the duty day.

The blockade imposed on Qatar by several of its neighboring Arab nations has had no impact on war efforts against the Islamic State from the United States’ largest base in the Middle East, but it is affecting the Pentagon’s long-term planning, a U.S. defense official said Friday.

Westboro Baptist Church, achurch notorious for protesting at military service members' funerals, has announced that it plans to picket Eglin Air Force Base next week.

A former Air Force security squadron staff sergeant already charged with raping three prostitutes at gunpoint in Colorado Springs - and using a cellphone to document the attacks - will be charged in a fourth assault.

Nearly two months after the Navy grounded its fleet of T-45 trainer jets due to cockpit oxygen problems, the aircraft have still not returned to service and the Navy is exploring alternatives, the service’s top aviation commander said Wednesday.

U-2 spy planes, fighter jets and other aircraft have been deployed off the peninsula as the Air Force temporarily halts flights from Osan Air Base while it begins rebuilding a Korean War-era runway.

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For the tiny, oil rich nation of Qatar, Al Udeid Air Base, home to more than 10,000 U.S. servicemembers, has long been something of an insurance policy.

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said she understood the Air Force would not conduct the study, but pointed out the U.S. Navy paid for the ATSDR to conduct "a similar kind of health study at Camp Lejeune."

The U.S. Air Force's top general says he's determined to avoid excessive secrecy during development of the service's new B-21 bomber, citing its predecessor as a cautionary tale.

Nicholas Murphy, 27, of Exeter, R.I., began communicating with the minor through Facebook and other online platforms. The victim told Murphy that she was 16 years old, though she was in fact younger, according to court records.

Reality Leigh Winner was accused of gathering, transmitting, or losing defense information describing Russian government efforts to use hacking techniques against employees of a company that provides technical support to states' voting agencies.