The 12th Flying Training Wing at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph resumed training Friday morning after one of its aircraft crashed three days ago near a shopping mall, officials for the unit announced.

Col. Lewis Henry Dunagan's family thought arrangements had been made that included having an escort meet Dunagan's casket when they landed. But when the family arrived, there was no escort and none of the crew members seemed aware they were a military family traveling with the remains of a loved one, according to his daughter.

All federal lawsuits against the U.S. Air Force over a Texas church shooting last year that left more than two dozen worshippers dead will be consolidated into one case, a judge says.

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In his winning video, Senior Airman Lane McCall shows dazzling footage of fighter jets, bombs and paratroopers, then he says: “But that doesn’t mean we’re all pilots, jumping out of planes, blowing stuff up. Get real.”

A 15-page memo, signed by Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, offers the first official estimate of the near-term costs of building a sixth branch of the military to focus on fighting in outer space, and outlines the Air Force’s ideas for doing so.

Two pilots, a trainer and a student flying a T-6A Texan II aircraft ejected safely from the plane before it crashed near Rolling Oaks Mall in San Antonio.

An airman assigned to the 97th Air Mobility Wing was found dead Monday at Altus Air Force Base.

The game is scheduled for sometime in the afternoon on Sept. 30 and only Airmen will be able to attend, said base spokeswoman Marie Vanover. The game will be played in one of Wright-Patterson’s hangars.

The U.S. Air Force and eight other nations will participate next month in independent Ukraine’s largest aviation exercise, which aims to promote regional security and improve that country’s cooperation with NATO members, the military said Tuesday.

Air Force regulations don’t let married couples fly in the same plane with each other, though Lt. Col. John Avery and Lt. Col. Jennifer Avery did fly together in a T-38 training jet before they were married.

An internal Air Force document says President Donald Trump's planned creation of a Space Force could cost nearly $13 billion in its first five years.

For years, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and other top Air Force officials have been calling for an increase in the service’s size, noting airmen have been busy for nearly two decades fighting in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

The Combat Raider exercise is scheduled for three days beginning Oct. 16. It will involve several different types of military aircraft.

When airport officials are asked about the future of the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, they frequently cite the interconnectedness between the airport and the Youngstown Air Reserve Station and its Air Force 910th Airlift Wing.

Criminal charges against a tradition that had gone on for at least three decades on the Air Force Academy men’s swimming team are without precedent in the school’s 64-year history, with two seniors facing up to five years behind bars on allegations of obstruction of justice and dereliction of duty.

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said in a Friday statement the satellites, known as GPS 3 Follow-On, "will provide greater accuracy, and improved anti-jamming capabilities, making them more resilient."

The military judge who got headlines for convicting a Marine general of contempt and confining him to his Guantanamo quarters has apparently found a new bench – as an immigration judge, prompting defense lawyers to demand that all his rulings since 2014 be thrown out.

The Air Force will redesign and adjust oxygen control levels in T-6 Texan II cockpits to curb problems suffered by pilots flying the training aircraft, according to Air Education and Training Command.

Contrary to posts on social media, Keesler Air Force Base is not advising military personnel to be cautious about moving to Ocean Springs, Miss. because of a “recent increase in racist acts/events.”

The Navy and the Air Force are teaming up to get to the root cause of oxygen deprivation among its pilots, which officials have said is their single biggest safety concern in aviation.

Members of the Oregon Air National Guard's 125th Special Tactics Squadron are on their way to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to help with Hurricane Florence relief.

Air Force F-22 Raptors intercepted a pair of Russian bombers and their fighter escorts this week near Alaska, according to North American Aerospace Defense Command.

Airman 1st Class Christian Clark was found dead in his dorm room on Sept. 6 at the Grand Forks Air Force Base.

In his first “ask me anything” appearance on the popular website Reddit, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright and his team fielded live questions on a range of issues, from fitness and uniforms to warrant officers and facial hair.

The Air Force has given Boeing a $2.9 billion contract for 18 additional KC-46A refueling aircraft, including support equipment and wing air refueling pod kits.

The message underlying the results of an Air Force-wide review of flying and maintenance units earlier this year is that airmen may be pushing – and being pushed – to do too much, sometimes at the expense of safety.

Two pilots at Sheppard Air Force Base are in stable condition Tuesday after ejecting from a T-38C Talon aircraft that crashed shortly after takeoff, officials at the base confirmed.

A brand-new semitrailer plowed into the rear of a Jeep containing three airmen at 62 miles per hour, according to a preliminary crash report by the National Transportation Safety Board.

Several flight performances had to be canceled because of the low cloud ceiling, including the most popular routine by the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.

When people watch air shows, odds are they have no idea what the pilots above them are going through. "It's about the busiest you'll ever be in your life," said Capt. Don Roney of the 187th Fighter Wing. He's an F-16 pilot, but for Red Tails Over Montgomery he's the air operations officer in charge of making sure the flying goes off without a hitch.

Col. Mark Eugene Muth “causing a disturbance by shoving people in an attempt to get closer to the stage area.”

Fifty-three years after his plane was shot down over the jungles of North Vietnam, Vietnam War pilot Lt. Col. Fredric Moore Mellor is coming home for burial.

Maj. Gen. John Wood assumed command on Friday of 3rd Air Force, where he’ll direct U.S. air operations in Europe and Africa.

Military working dogs, many of whom were flying for the first time, joined their handlers for training on UH-1N Hueys at Fairchild Air Force Base throughout the month of August.

Col. Thomas P. Sherman never expected to be dealing with an active shooter scare just weeks after taking over as the commander of the 88th Air Base Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base but he said it was something he and the rest of the 27,000 workers at the military installation were prepared for.

A Japanese man was in police custody Friday after causing an early morning “security incident” at Kadena Air Base’s front gate.

Maj. Gen. Richard Scobee, whose father died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, will take command of the Air Force Reserve, according to a service news release issued Wednesday.

When Hawaii Air National Guard F-22 Raptors fly out of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam at $62,000 per hour on training missions, that effort is hampered by a multitude of inefficiencies, a recent government report said. Fighters less sophisticated than the F-22 could be used as the "adversary" aircraft during training at a savings to taxpayers.

One hundred and eighty fishermen in a local association are expected to seek a payout from the U.S. and Japanese governments for losses suffered during a shutdown that resulted from tanks being dropped onto a lake, a Tohoku Defense Bureau spokesman said on Tuesday.

At least nine U.S. military installations have reported active shooter false alarms in the past three years, but none like the chaos that unfolded at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on Aug. 2.

How Lt. Col. Stephen Meister ended up commanding one of the Air Force's nine intercontinental ballistic missile squadrons is a rare story of a nuclear nonbeliever and pacifist developing faith in the nation's most cataclysmic arms. Three decades ago, he was protesting at a Minuteman III missile silo. Now he oversees 50 of them.

In the seven years since the shuttle program ended at the Space Coast, the region has returned from nearly 12 percent unemployment to 3.9 percent unemployment, bolstered by new companies and a diversified economy.

Parents Weekend at the Air Force Academy wasn’t a big deal a couple of decades ago — but the annual cadet parade that used to draw a few hundred on Friday morning was a bit more crowded: 10,000 cheering family members packed the parade field stands and spilled onto walkways and the grass.

The report tells of "capacity shortfalls" for possible future international scenarios, including new cold wars with Russia and China, as well as other force commitments.

Members of the 557th Expeditionary Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operations Repair Squadron Engineer — or “Red Horse” Squadron — have spent the past four months building a new home for Bagram Air Field's top hospital for damaged aircraft.

This field dotted with yellow flowers was the scene of one of the most horrific air show disasters in Europe. A brief ceremony was held to remember the 70 victims and hundreds whose lives were changed by the accident on Aug. 28, 1988.

Along with being the top air boss in charge of about 8,000 airmen in South Korea, Lt. Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach’s new roles on the peninsula include deputy commander of U.S. Forces Korea and air component commander for both the United Nations Command and Combined Forces Command.

An 18-year veteran assigned to the 353rd Special Operations Group at Kadena Air Base was found dead last week in his off-base residence, officials said.

Like a growing number of people who served or whose family members served at the 157th Air Refueling Wing at what is now Pease Air National Guard Base, Nancy Eaton believes her husband's exposure to contaminated water at the guard base and other dangerous chemicals could have contributed to the cancer that claimed his life.

So far, the wings have been used to detect chemicals similar to those used in mustard gas and the chemical weapon sarin.

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Air Force Tech. Sgt. John Chapman's name was added to the Air Force Memorial and unveiled in a ceremony on Friday, two days after he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

The Senate took two steps Friday to address drinking water tainted with perfluorinated compounds, setting aside cash to reimburse Pikes Peak region utilities for cleanup and scheduling a hearing to investigate the federal government's role in what a committee is calling a "chemical crisis." The contamination has been tied to use of a toxic firefighting foam at Peterson Air Force Base.

Home to the 50th Space Wing, which controls satellites including the Global Positioning System, Schriever has been dubbed “Area 52” and “The Place the Air Force Goes When it Wants to be Alone.”

Six days before Mosese Fifita was to report for basic training, his father died at 48 of a heart attack. “They said they would have given me a couple of days, but I wanted to start normal so I wasn’t treated any differently than the rest of the cadets," he said. "So I just came in and started."

On Friday, Gen. Darren McDew relinquished command of USTRANSCOM to Gen. Stephen Lyons during a change of command ceremony, marking the end of his highly decorated 36-year military career.

Qualifying for Air Force Special Operations can take up to three years of training, and about 80 percent of battlefield airmen don’t make it.

Red Flag-Alaska is a Pacific Air Forces-directed international training exercise that focuses on improving combat readiness and providing training for units preparing for air expeditionary force missions.

The next arms race could involve hypersonic missiles that travel five times faster than the speed of sound. To compete, U.S. development efforts have gone into hyperdrive.

U.S. Forces Japan has officially notified the Japanese government of plans to base CV-22 Osprey aircraft in western Tokyo, more than four months after they arrived there for the first time.

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After lots of flying, bundling up in summer and trying local delicacies like putrefied shark and puffin, the U.S. Air Force wrapped up its three-week air surveillance mission in Iceland on Thursday.

Tropical-storm force winds were expected to hit the Big Island by Wednesday evening, the National Weather Service said in an advisory. Damaging winds were forecast for Oahu — the site of most of the state’s military installations — as early as Thursday evening.

Air Force Tech. Sgt. John Chapman is the first servicemember to be awarded the nation’s highest military honor since the Vietnam War. The Medal of Honor is an upgrade of the Air Force Cross that Chapman was awarded posthumously in the months after the brutal fight now known as the Battle of Roberts’ Ridge.

Almost everyone agrees on this: Early last year, a shipment of hazardous waste was taken from Mountain Home Air Force Base to a municipal landfill on Simco Road. But discussion of who’s at fault for the prohibited shipment has devolved into disagreements, pointed fingers and now, a lawsuit.

First Lt. Sonagnon Dabli died at Keesler Air Force Base Tuesday morning, according to the 81st Training Wing Public Affairs Office.

According to a press release, mosquitoes that were collected from the base were confirmed to be infected with the virus. Health officials said base officials are taking safety precautions.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein is looking to rewrite the officer evaluation system with the help of Col. “Ned Stark,” an Air Force officer who wrote under a “Game of Thrones” pseudonym to avoid reprisal

T-38 Talon training aircraft personnel are conducting normal operations Monday, after one of the 71st Flying Training Wing's T-38s crashed in Oklahoma's Woodward County Friday.

The U.S. Air Force has one, major goal with this hands-on training: Prepare future medical professionals for any emergency situation that could arise as they care for military members in war zones and across the world.

The $150 million project aims to reduce airspace congestion and ease jet noise over neighborhoods.

A former U.S. senior airman has been jailed for sexually abusing two South Korean orphans and for possessing child pornography in a 2016 case that prompted new community guidelines at Kunsan Air Base.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Miguel “Miggs” Rangel performed a 45-minute set at the 2018 European Elvis Festival in Bad Nauheim, where legions of fans honored “the King” on the anniversary of his death Saturday.

The Air Force said Friday that it plans to build a $150 million runway extension at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson that officials say will reshape air traffic over Anchorage while easing jet noise problems in the Mountain View neighborhood.

A pilot was reported to be conscious after the T-38C Talon aircraft that he was flying crashed near Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma, according to the Air Force.

The bombers, which are capable of carrying nuclear and conventional weapons, flew into Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on Wednesday from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.

Approval of a new uniform design would be the first update to the Air Force’s service dress uniform in decades. Airmen have long complained that the current service dress uniform looks more like corporate than military attire.

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It was a busy afternoon on the runway at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, on Thursday. And there were plenty of cameras to catch the action.

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It took a deployment to Germany and a shorter hop to this remote Norwegian air base for Florida-based F-22 Raptor pilot Lt. Col. Matthew Tromans to get a close encounter with another premier fifth-generation aircraft.

Troops are using 22 aircraft and more than 100 vehicles to combat the largest wildfire in Californian history.

Dover Air Force Base is home to the C-5M SuperGalaxy aircraft, an airframe that joined the fleet in June 1970, as well as the C-17 Globemaster III, operational since January 1995.

Air Force Brig. Gen. E. John Teichert is accused of "using both his military rank as well as his position and status as an Air Force officer to aggressively promote his brand of religion" through his religious website.

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.

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 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.

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.”