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.

Fort Worth wants to land on the short list for another major relocation, but this time it isn’t Amazon or another big tech firm — it’s the U.S. Space Command.

The three people killed in a small plane crash near a Tennessee airport were Lt. Col. Shelli Huether, Capt. Jessica Wright, and Senior Master Sgt. Scott Bumpus.

F-16s of the 510th and 555th Fighter Squadrons from Aviano Air Base, Italy, are also participating in the exercise for the first time.

The 17th Special Tactics Squadron has had no breaks in its rotations in support of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since October 2001.

During Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s visit to Palau late last month, Palauan President Tommy Remengesau Jr. presented a written offer to host new U.S. military ports and airfields.

Brigadier Gen. R. Dale Lyles, adjutant general of the Indiana National Guard, is part of an effort to help put Terre Haute Regional Airport atop of four other airports that could be the site of a new U.S. Air Force F-35 military sales training center.

Two long-range, eight-engine bombers headed from Britain to North Africa to train with warplanes from Tunisia, which borders war-torn Libya, U.S. Africa Command said.

The 100th Air Refueling Wing command team has produced a video every duty day since March 18 — and they've had some fun along the way.

The award sweeps aside an earlier bid from Boeing, which has led the Pentagon's ballistic missile work since the Eisenhower administration.

Air Force aircraft joined a round-the-clock Navy search for a missing member of the USS Nimitz crew, officials said more than 36 hours after a “man overboard” alert was sounded.

Over Labor Day weekend, the U.S. military announced two cases on Okinawa: U.S. Army Japan reported one Monday, and Kadena Air Base reported one Saturday.

Families living on MacDill Air Force Base have a new place to turn when maintenance and safety issues arise in their homes. Yet some residents, past and present, say more work remains to gain their trust that problems will be solved.

In the most recent episode of Military Matters, host Rod Rodriguez explored unidentified aerial phenomena and what the Defense Department knows about them. This week, he finds out from a former aerospace engineer at Lockheed Martin's famed Skunk Works about the facts that can be gleaned from those unexplained encounters.

A South Korean contractor who works at Osan Air Base tested positive for the coronavirus on Saturday, the U.S. military said, reporting its first local transmission in nearly five months.

The field of candidates for the U.S. Space Command headquarters is expected to be narrowed by November, with a short list of finalists moving on for further evaluation. A final decision is tentatively planned for early 2021.

The events for newly arrived airmen are choreographed affairs where the guests of honor don masks and keep their distance from the folks cooking their food.

The restructuring is part of a transition announced by the 374th Medical Group on Aug. 28. It creates two new medical squadrons — one solely for active-duty troops and another to treat family members and Defense Department civilians.

A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 49th Wing sustained damage when it left the runway during takeoff at Holloman Air Force Base at about 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday.

Fairchild Air Force Base, home of the largest tanker wing in the world, marked 64 years of service for the KC-135 Stratotanker refueling plane on Monday.

Kelly will lead a command that operates more than 1,000 aircraft in 35 wings at more than 240 locations around the world. The command includes more than 156,000 military and civilian personnel.

Using smart manufacturing techniques, thermomechanical testing and systems engineering concepts, researchers will study the production of aerospace parts.

The incident prompted Denmark to scramble quick reaction aircraft to counter a Russian fighter jet that took off from Russia’s military exclave in Kaliningrad, NATO said.

Personnel on Okinawa finished policing base and unit facilities, boarded up buildings, tied down loose equipment and deployed sandbags to combat flooding, Marine Corps and Air Force officials said.

Two Russian Su-27 Flankers intercepted the B-52 Stratofortress bomber while it conducted “routine operations” Saturday over international waters, U.S. Air Forces in Europe said.

The T-1 Jayhawk, a twin-engine jet trainer used at undergraduate pilot training bases to train pilots after they finish the T-6 Texan II curriculum and before they move on to fly airlift and tanker aircraft, is nearing the end of its service life.

An Air Force general has issued an apology to a veteran after she raised concerns about how military investigators handled reexamining her 20-year-old rape case.

The new policy went into effect Aug. 17 and gives parents the ability to defer an assignment or be stationed near their children with a court-ordered child-custody decree.

Two B-52s will fly over the U.S. and Canada, while four others will cover NATO member states in Europe, officials said.

A senior Pentagon official says the Air Force will install a line of extraction wells across a high-strength contaminant plume that’s causing toxic foam to accumulate on the shoreline of a local beach across from the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda.

Installations have to meet specific criteria in order to have the travel restrictions lifted, including a health protection condition less than “Charlie” and availability of essential services.

The air show will be held Oct. 24-25 at the Russell Regional Airport in Rome, Georgia. The eighth annual event will feature a mix of socially distanced entertainment, featuring top military and civilian aviators in action.

The Air Force is offering at least $100,000 to whomever comes up with a way for female pilots to answer the call of nature while strapped into the cockpit of a jet.

A list of the 8,246 U.S. Air Force staff sergeants who have been selected for promotion to the rank of technical sergeant in the 20E6 promotion cycle.

When video footage of unknown objects recorded by Navy fighter pilots was released publicly in 2017, talk of UFOs moved out of the realm of science fiction. To find out what the DOD knows about unidentified aerial phenomena, podcast host Rod Rodriguez talks with Luis Elizondo, the former head of Advanced Aerospace Threat Intelligence Program.

Airmen and their families who had to evacuate from Travis Air Force Base due to a nearby wildfire can return home, the California base announced Friday.

More than 40,000 people will attend a virtual version of the Air Force Technology & Cyberpower conference that starts Monday.

What was supposed to be a relaxing train ride from Amsterdam to Paris for three childhood friends, two of them U.S, service members, on Aug. 21, 2015 turned out the opposite.

Government officials on Guam reported 63 new coronavirus cases Friday, bringing the total number recorded on the U.S. island territory to 767, with six deaths.

The Thracian Summer exercise comes as the U.S. defense posture in Europe shifts toward the Black Sea region, where Russia has been increasingly assertive.

Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. recently made history as the first Black service branch chief.

Officials on Guam reported 22 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number reported on the island to 599, including 74 service members, since March 12.

A message sent to parents by Air Force Academy leadership said the number of cases was “less than 1/2 of 1% of our population of students.”

The base is activating its Emergency Family Assistance Center to assist with relocation due to the evacuation.

The combined exercise Tuesday, one of several like it this year, comes as military activity in the Western Pacific by the U.S. and its allies and by China continues to ratchet up.

Maj. Gen. Dawn Dunlop, one of the Air Force’s highest-ranking female fighter pilots, regularly belittled subordinates and clashed with peers before her removal as the leader of an office responsible for some of the military’s most secret programs, an Air Force inspector general probe found.

A Massachusetts storage company auctioned off a military sergeant’s “irreplaceable” belongings while he was deployed overseas to fight on behalf of the United States, federal prosecutors said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Having a pet while serving in active duty can be challenging, with frequent moves and long-term deployments as a part of life. But service members say the joy and stress relief pets offer are worth the hassle.

Most of the newly reported coronavirus cases among U.S. military members in Japan came from Kadena Air Base, which reported seven cases late Friday.

Guam reported 25 new coronavirus patients, eight of which are U.S. service members, on Friday as the island prepares to enter a governor-mandated “pandemic condition of readiness” taking effect Sunday.

The AlphaDogFight Trials consists of three days of cyberspace competition, during which eight AI teams will determine which of their programs will face the experienced human F-16 fighter pilot.

Air Force Master Sgt. John Grimesey’s Silver Star is an upgrade of a lesser award he received for his life-saving actions during a May 25, 2013, fight in Afghanistan on his first of many combat deployments.

Volk Field near Camp Douglas is again hosting the Northern Lightning training exercise for military personnel around the country, as squadrons from California, Idaho, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin head to the base to participate.

Seven U.S. troops and a civilian contractor tested positive for the coronavirus after traveling to South Korea from the U.S., the military said.

Three planes from the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base flew 29 hours to reach Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia.

Marines tend to value discipline over risk-tasking for their one-star candidates, the Navy prizes technical expertise, and relations with peers hold greater sway in the Army, a Defense Department-commissioned report by the Rand Corp. found.

The 356th Fighter Squadron was reactivated last fall to become the first F-35 squadron in the Indo-Pacific theater. The squadron had received 11 F-35s, with the final 13 scheduled to arrive before the end of 2021.

Holders of a Federal Law Enforcement Officer Safety Act permit, Ohio concealed carry permit, or another state's concealed carry permit that has a reciprocity with the state of Ohio, will be authorized on approval to transport secured, privately owned firearms in their privately owned vehicles, the base said.

U.S. Air Forces Central Command and Air Mobility Command delivered the more than a half-million pounds of food, water and medical supplies in four days following the Aug. 4 explosion, the military said.

Japan’s capital city reported 222 new coronavirus cases Wednesday, breaking 200 again for the first time in three days, according to public broadcaster NHK.

A Guam-based B-1B Lancer recently flew alongside 14 Japanese fighter jets before drilling with multiple USS Ronald Reagan strike group aircraft near Japan, the Air Force announced Monday.

The six new cases announced Sunday at Yokosuka stem from contact with infected individuals, according to a base Facebook post.

In the near future, solar power collected in space and beamed down to Earth could power military and civilian installations, vehicles and devices in remote places across the globe.

The largest U.S. Air Force wing in Europe welcomed a new commander Friday at a ceremony where public health guidance trumped tradition.

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force has announced that it will open a new exhibit titled "Flying the President," featuring memorabilia flown aboard Air Force One from administrations ranging from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Donald Trump.

Members of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, a wing of the U.S. Air Force Sustainment Center, successfully tested a gasket that goes on the TF33-P103 engine, which is used for the E-3 Airborne Warning aircraft, the E-8 surveillance aircraft and the six-decade-old B-52 Stratofortress.

Gen. Charles Brown noted his promotion to lead the Air Force would never have come had his father — a career Army officer — not talked him out of quitting the ROTC program at Texas Tech University after just one semester.

Two residents of Offutt Air Force Base south of Omaha were killed in a crash in Iowa, just across the Missouri River from the base, officials sad.

Then-defense secretary Jim Mattis had recommended Air Force Gen. David Goldfein to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But President Donald Trump, feuding with Mattis, went in another direction in December 2018, months earlier than expected.

A two-year-old girl owes her life to the quick reactions of two U.S. airmen who saved her from drowning last weekend in a popular recreational lake in southwest Germany.

Belgium and Spain are back as approved travel destinations for Air Force personnel in Germany.

A part fell from an F-15 at approximately 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, a spokesman from the Okinawa Defense Bureau said.

The new dress option for women is the latest in a series of regulatory changes adopted by the Air Force in recent months.

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Col. Benjamin Jonsson, 43, assumed command of the 6th Air Refueling Wing in a ceremony at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa on Tuesday. He arrived from the Al Udeid Airbase in Qatar, where for the past two years he served as vice commander of the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing.

Unexploded ordnance that forced more than 20 buildings on RAF Mildenhall to be evacuated and off-base personnel to shelter indoors has been disposed of in a controlled detonation, base officials said.

Three mariners who apparently sailed off course and ran out of fuel were rescued from an uninhabited island with the help of the U.S. Air Force.