Fifty years ago this week, Apollo 11 came to a triumphant conclusion after astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean. Though almost no one knew it at the time, the mission had nearly ended in disaster.

Warrior Sailing began in 2013 to provide maritime education and outreach for wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans. The program uses sailing to positively impact a participant’s physical and mental health, while reconnecting them with the teamwork they had in the military.

In April, the Fighter Wing at Eglin Air Force Base — a graduate flying and maintenance training wing — posted a 77.1% mission-capable rate for the 33 F-35s on its flight line, according to Lt. Savannah Stephens, the wing's public affairs officer. That's the highest mission-capable rate achieved by the wing since August of 2016.

Nellis Air Force Base said in a statement that the Air Force is aware of the prank event on Facebook calling for people to "storm Area 51" and says "any attempt to illegally access the area is highly discouraged."

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It’s been decades since Dave Fisher soared through the wild blue yonder in Air Force jets, and a century since his birth on July 17, 1919. The former Air Force major is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, American military veterans in Japan.

Air Force Technical Sgt. Michael Perolio's actions on Jan. 11, 2018, in eastern Afghanistan saved the lives of his comrades and showcased “a devotion to duty.”

In January 2018, Geraldine Lovely — who last served as a staff sergeant at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada — posted a video of herself delivering a profanity-laced rant about black female subordinates.

Andre McDonald served as a cyberwarfare officer with the 426th Network Warfare Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, according to a statement from the Air Force Personnel Center.

The U.S. Air Force conducted an F-16 flyover in the missing man formation for the graveside service of colorful Texas billionaire and former presidential candidate H. Ross Perot.

The U.S. Air Force sent a group of fighters and transport aircraft to Poland, Lithuania and Estonia Tuesday in a test of the service's ability to quickly deploy air power overseas, the military said.

According to an Air Force spokeswoman, a drinking water well southeast of Dover Air Force Base tested in May 2016 above the EPA's health advisory limits at 91 parts per trillion combined PFOS/PFOA.

The $205 million construction project includes a flight simulator facility, maintenance unit, hangars and storage units, and is set to open in time for the arrival of the F-35s in November 2021.

Andre McDonald, 40, is being held Monday at the Bexar County jail. Sheriff’s officials said they found the body of Andreen McDonald, 29, on Thursday east of Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday honored the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base as a shining example of how formerly federal land can be repurposed.

Former Air Force airman Benjamin Roden was charged in the July 2017 bombing of an unoccupied Air Force recruiting office in the Tulsa suburb of Bixby.

The fire was put out within 15 minutes of the landing at Lincoln Airport, officials said.

Speaking to airmen on Wednesday evening, Vice President Mike Pence said Vandenberg plays a key role in the nation’s space operations. He also praised the base personnel for their work supporting other government agencies and the commercial space industry.

The suspect, described as being in his 20s or 30s, allegedly punched the victim in the head before leaving the scene in a vehicle with a type of license plate issued to American military personnel in Japan.

Rodrigo Gomez, 44, was convicted of attempted voluntary manslaughter, assault and other charges in April for punching and stomping on the head of a U.S. airman at Misawa Air Base in Japan.

The Army and Air Force Exchange Service said 5 Star Nutrition has blocked the sale of the products, “Alpha Shredded” and “Trenatestin,” on military installations.

New Kirtland Air Force Base installation commander Col. David S. Miller is pledging to be active in the lives of airmen and to be a good neighbor to the community of Albuquerque.

Members of Congress have raised questions about the allegations against Gen. John Hyten and the military investigation that found insufficient evidence to charge him.

Robert Rice, who serves in the Air Force Reserves and is also an Air Force contractor, was initially charged with aggravated child abuse and manslaughter in the May death of his infant daughter.

Vance Air Force Base celebrated the 70th anniversary Tuesday of the base being named for Enid native and Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Col. Leon R. “Bob” Vance.

Vandenberg has received national attention recently, as it is one of only a handful of U.S. Air Force bases to make a short list for potential headquarters of the new Space Command.

Maj. Gen. Linda Singh served in enlisted and officer ranks for 36 years - the last four as adjutant general, responsible for the daily operations of the Maryland Military Department, which includes the Army National Guard, Air National Guard, Emergency Management Agency, and Defense Force.

Michigan’s verbal agreement with the U.S. Air Force to speed the pace of cleanup at the former Wurtsmith air base in Oscoda is mere “propaganda” that does little to actually bind the military to any action, local officials and activists say.

The shift south for a group of MQ-9 Reapers was prompted by construction at their main operating base in northwest Poland, U.S. Air Forces in Europe said.

The four species include loggerhead and green sea turtles, both considered threatened, and leatherback and Kemp's ridley sea turtles, both considered endangered.

Friday's 7.1 magnitude earthquake, which happened the day after a 6.4 quake shook the region, was the largest to hit California in over 20 years.

Remains discovered Friday in Rocky Mountain National Park have been identified as those of missing Air Force Academy Prep School cadet Micah Tice, the academy confirmed Sunday.

Brig. Gen. Joel Carey assumed responsibility of the 18th Wing, the Air Force’s largest combat air wing, on Monday from Brig. Gen. Case Cunningham, the outgoing commander.

Tours for Air Force military training instructors have been cut from four years to three after a survey found a sharp increase in assignment fatigue after three years in the roles, officials said.

Fort Carson’s only Air Force members on post received a new commander to take charge. With the Rampart mountain range as a backdrop and about 40 onlookers, Lt. Col. Craig Cude assumed his position of commander.

Personnel at Vandenberg will support the U.S. Space Command by providing the United States and its allies with space-related services — like GPS tracking and missile warnings — to help with ground-based missions.

Three dozen Air Force paratroopers dropped from a clear, blue sky Tuesday onto Ramstein Air Base’s busy airfield, getting a rare chance to practice their parachuting skills close to home.

The Air Force says it's investigating after a fighter jet struck a bird and dropped three dummy bombs used for training over northern Florida.

The story of Fort Hood’s Hug Lady will live on through a plaque at the base’s Robert Gray Army Airfield commemorating her dedication to soldiers. Elizabeth Laird, commonly referred to by soldiers at the base as the “Hug Lady,” attended every flight in and out of the central Texas base for 12 years just to hug them.

The newly established 21st Special Operations Squadron and the 753rd Special Operations Maintenance Squadron at Yokota Air Base will fly and maintain five CV-22 Ospreys.

Airman 2nd Class Verne Budahn died when a C-124 Globemaster II went down in bad weather on Nov. 22, 1952.

Time will tell if Evan Marshall, the 6-foot-6 former prized basketball recruit with strong hoops bloodlines, closes the door on the sport that first brought him to the Air Force Academy.

The U.S. Senate passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act this week, and the bill includes $35.7 million for the renovation of 29 brick homes in Area A of Wright-Patt. The bill also includes millions more in funding for other Wright-Patt initiatives.

Shane Walker is accused of killing his girlfriend, Air National Guardsman Alla Ausheva, and their two sons in their New York home on June 22.

The fighter jets were part of a previously announced deployment of new forces into the Middle East, aimed at bolstering the ability of the United States to protect its forces throughout the region, especially in Iraq and Syria.

Japan’s Mainichi Shimbun newspaper discovered a spill of 734 gallons of diesel fuel from a tank and a midflight leakage of 2,790 gallons of jet fuel at Yokota Air Base near Tokyo went unreported to Japanese authorities.

Reaction on social media to a proposed policy to allow service academy grads to defer their time on active duty to play included strong opposition, but many at the Air Force Academy think it will have the desired effect of strengthening athletics at the academies.

The annual demonstration against Ramstein Air Base, the largest U.S. military base in Germany, could include a temporary blockade of the main access road, although organizers and police say the protest is expected to be peaceful.

President Donald Trump is formally backing Arizona Republican Sen. Martha McSally in one of the most hotly contested Senate races of the 2020 election.

Airman Shane Walker is being held in the Saturday slayings of Air National Guardsman Alla Ausheva and their two children, 2-year-old Ivan and 3-year-old Elia.

Information about the airman, who was found dead inside a residence near Kadena Air Base in Okinawa on Monday, was not readily available.

Late Monday night, SpaceX will fly its massive Falcon Heavy rocket for just the third time ever. The mission for the branch of the U.S. military is to deliver 24 satellites to space on boosters that are being reused after having flown in the past.

The third week in June, 1994 began as any other at Fairchild Air Force Base. It was warm and sunny, with the base preparing for an open house the following Sunday. It ended with the base hospital closed, walls scarred from bullets and floors stained with blood. The burnt wreckage of the base’s last B-52 was scattered near the runway.

Airman 1st Class Brooklyn Shedd will represent Misawa Air Base, attending nine festivals with two Japanese beauty queens and joining a sports team.

Ooyvey, a 9-year-old military working dog at Kunsan Air Base, died June 6 of liver disease, surrounded by her human friends.

After sexually assaulting a drunk airman in the airman’s own dormitory bed last year, Airman 1st Class Jordan Hickman left the victim’s door as he found it — cracked open — and left, carrying a PlayStation console under his arm.

Gen. James “Mike” Holmes, commander of air combat for the Air Force, said the military should embrace unusual ideas from businesses that don’t normally work in the defense industry to combat threats across the globe.

Challenges are growing for the United States and Japan in the Far East, the commander of U.S. Forces Japan told his host nation’s defense minister Wednesday in western Tokyo.

Minutes before the Acting Secretary of Defense withdrew Tuesday from his confirmation process, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke at MacDill Air Force Base about the need to coordinate “diplomatic and defense efforts’’ to address rising tensions with Iran.

Brig. Gen. James H. Dienst will assume command of the performance wing during a 3 p.m. ceremony Friday at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, according to a press release from Wright-Patt.

The skies above Spangdahlem Air Base roared Tuesday with the sounds of F-35s, as Utah-based airmen took the Air Force’s newest fighter jets on their first extended deployment to Germany.

Stephen Osakue worked for the Air Force as a research pharmacist based at Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi, according to authorities. He drowned in a Caribbean Princess cruise ship pool Friday morning.

When the pilots of the two Air Force F-15s finally caught up with the small Cessna jet, they saw a terrible sight. Juan Carlos Gonzalez Mejia, the experienced pilot of the Citation, was “unconscious and slumped over the controls."

In the midst of an Air Force-wide pilot shortage, the 71st Flying Training Wing has been tasked with increasing its pilot output by another 34% in 2019. Vance Air Force Base is expected to produce 420 pilots this year, compared with 326 last year.

The mock-ups of an Air Force One with a new paint scheme feature colors strikingly similar to those on the private jet Trump used to fly around the country during his 2016 campaign.

The Air Force Research Laboratory's 26,000 square-foot, $12.8 million Space Control Laboratory will consolidate efforts now being conducted in six different facilities at Kirtland Air Force Base.

Maj. Gen. Dawn Dunlop was accused of fostering a “toxic work environment” in the Defense Department’s Special Access Programs Central Office, according to reports.

Over the past year, Tech. Sgt. Gregory Gauntt has established an alter ego as one of the most despised characters in South Korea.

Retired U.S. Col. Gail Halvorsen — better known in these parts as the “Candy Bomber” — will always be a hero in the eyes of the German children who grew up in postwar Berlin, no matter how old they grow. On Monday, some of those who remember Halvorsen's heroics gathered to honor him.

The same chemical compounds that have tainted drinking wells from Tucson's south side to Marana have been found polluting groundwater underneath the Air National Guard base adjoining Tucson International Airport, a consultant's report for the Air Guard says.

The U.S. Air Force has granted a religious accommodation to an active duty Sikh airman that will allow him to wear a turban, beard and unshorn hair in accordance with his faith.

Staff Sgt. Joshua R. Moore, an airman assigned to the 31st Maintenance Squadron, died following a single-car accident in in the early evening on Thursday, base officials said Monday.

The Air Force, which manages the $5.3 billion program to build two new presidential planes, hasn’t been given a formal request, but the service says the White House is evaluating paint scheme options.

A Japanese high court on Thursday awarded more than $7 million to people living near Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo as compensation for aircraft noise but rejected their demand to restrict flight operations at the base.

The aircraft designed to be an “office in the sky” for senior military and government leaders flew out of Ramstein Air Base Friday for its new home at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

Dubbed Astral Knight 2019 and led by the U.S. Air Force, the drills involved airmen, soldiers and sailors from the United States and Croatia, Italy and Slovenia, both at Aviano Air Base and other locations.

The two-star general at the helm of the Air Force Warfare Center at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada was relieved of command Sunday because of an alleged unprofessional relationship.

The Air Force general nominated to lead the Pentagon’s newest combatant command that would direct the U.S. military’s space operations told lawmakers on Tuesday that any future conflicts with major powers such as Russia or China would be partially fought in space.

Ramstein Air Base is set to receive a $700,000 prize to be used for base and quality of life improvements after winning Defense Department recognition for its performance.

Officials at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., have suspended physical fitness testing after a second airman in less than a week died of health problems after completing a physical training assessment.

Critical wing replacements for the A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack jet — a mainstay of operations at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base — are a step closer to continued funding following the approval of a 2020 defense authorization bill by a Senate committee.

As the Air Force chief of staff toured tornado damage in a housing neighborhood for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base personnel, he noticed one thing in particular: an overwhelming sense of community.

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Gen. Arnold W Bunch Jr. took over the Air Force Materiel Command on Friday only moments after being named just the 220th four-star general in the Air Force's history.

While the B-21 bomber under development by the Air Force garnered many of the headlines during Col. John Edwards’ tenure as commander of Ellsworth Air Force Base, he quietly presided over a transformation in the combat role of the base’s nearly 40-year-old fleet of B-1s.

The Air Force is planning to overhaul its long-standing officer promotion system this year by dividing its largest category of officers into smaller, more specific groups, the service announced Friday.

A life-sized statue depicting a bearded Master Sgt. John Chapman in tan camouflage, and a replica of his Medal of Honor, was revealed Thursday inside the Alcide "Bull" Benini Heritage Center at Pope Army Airfield.

Lt. Gen. Arnold W. Bunch Jr. will be promoted to four-star rank and will assume command of the Air Force Materiel Command during a ceremony at the National Museum of the Air Force. In his new role, Bunch will lead a command with 80,000 uniformed Airmen and civilian employees that manages nearly $60 billion annually.

A dozen homes at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are uninhabitable after a tornado ripped through the Ohio base on Memorial Day, base officials said.

The statue of the bearded, combat-outfitted Master Sgt. John Chapman, the Air Force’s lone post-9/11 recipient of the Medal of Honor, will be the image that students and cadre see as they enter or leave the service’s school for future combat controllers.

Tessa, a 6-year-old Belgian malinois, raced toward Staff Sgt. Jacob Cokkinias but immediately stopped inches away from attacking when ordered to by her handler, Staff Sgt. Connor Oien.

The Air Force has awarded the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) a nearly $10 million contract f0r work advancing the development of hypersonic test vehicles.

The investigations, called a “clarification” process in academy lingo, are used to determine whether cadets violated the school’s honor code, which forbids lying, cheating and stealing. “Academic integrity at the academy is taken extremely seriously,” academy spokeswoman Lt. Col. Tracy Bunko said in an email.

Elon Musk-led SpaceX is formally challenging the U.S. Air Force’s decision last year to award a round of rocket development contracts to competitors, arguing that the Hawthorne firm’s entire proposal was incorrectly deemed the one with “highest risk.”

The U.S. military has finally completed runway work at a new air base in Agadez, Niger, but Air Force officials said Wednesday it will still be several months before flight operations can begin at what is anticipated to be a major intelligence gathering hub in western Africa.

The arrest was related to an incident in which lasers were pointed at two C-130J Super Hercules planes in February, according to officials.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced he would nominate Barbara Barrett, a former ambassador to Finland and astronaut, to be the next secretary of the Air Force, replacing Heather Wilson who is slated to leave that post at the end of this month.