An Air Force plane made an emergency landing at McClellan Airfield Wednesday afternoon, leaving one servicemember hospitalized with what a Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District spokesman called a “very minor injury.”

A 28-year-old Air Force instructor pilot was killed when his T-38C Talon jet trainer crashed Tuesday evening at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas, service officials said late Wednesday.

Senior Master Sgt. Daniel John Slater, 42, lost control of his motorcycle on Nov. 11 near Robins Air Force Base.

Airmen leaving for yearlong deployments will no longer have to return before moving their goods and families to their next permanent duty station.

One pilot was killed and another was hospitalized when their T-38C Talon crashed late Tuesday at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas, service officials said. It was the fifth crash of the training jet in the last 12 months.

The Air Force is developing more powerful "bunker buster" bombs, new reports say.

The 22-year-old bird remains on antibiotics and won't attend Air Force's home game against New Mexico on Saturday, according to the school.

Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research could help the Air Force keep its planes flying longer and at less cost.

The unidentified airman, who was in his 30s, was stabbed with a knife at his home near Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo Friday. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The complaint alleges that Fairchild Air Force Base officials used fire retardant foam recklessly and failed to warn neighbors of its “inherently dangerous properties.” The complaint was made on behalf of two landowners, and seeks damages from the federal government.

Christopher Osby, 36, was booked into county jail Tuesday night on charges of forgery, theft of identity and impersonating a peace officer.

Japanese officials want to route civilian jumbo jets through airspace near Yokota Air Base to increase the capacity of Haneda International Airport, which is one of the two major gateways for foreign visitors to Tokyo.

The U.S. Air Force has conducted a test launch of an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson said she got to cross an item off her bucket list while visiting Beale Air Force Base Monday: She rode in the chase car as a U-2 landed.

Equipped with a keyboard, electric guitars, drums, and vocals that could go far on "American Idol," the USAFE band has the dual mission of entertaining and strengthening relationships with allies.

Soldiers started to arrive at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base over the weekend as part of President Trump’s plan to deploy up to 15,000 troops to the southern border.

The Air Force terminated a Boeing contract to update the radar on its flagship AWACS surveillance aircraft after the company encountered major delays in developing hardware and software, according to budget documents.

The changes to BMT’s final week — once called Airmen’s Week — are the latest in a series of improvements since the beginning of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The New York Times, citing unnamed military sources, reported that four officers and two enlisted soldiers have so far been reprimanded. Two other senior officers involved in approving the mission have not been punished.

The U.S. and Japan are in the final stretch of a large, complex field training exercise that has 10,000 American servicemembers drilling alongside 47,000 Japanese troops on land, in the air and at sea.

A dozen jets and more than 100 Kunsan-based airmen are back in South Korea after spending nearly a month dogfighting over Alaska.

The 22-year-old bird named Aurora was able to fly around her pen, officials said.

Most of the bases’ estimated 55 F-22 Raptor aircraft were able to move to other bases before the storm — but several of them were damaged when they were left in hangars at the base because they were in various states of maintenance.

The Air Force has begun charging a $70 annual fee for dependents to attend teen activity centers on Ramstein and Vogelweh air bases, while similar Army centers offer the service for free.

Nine NASA astronauts and one Boeing astronaut became the first people to use the new centrifuge for training in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

The project addresses a danger that has been known for years: Part of the runway is blocked from the tower’s view, leaving pilots on their own.

The Air Force, which closed the Wurtsmith base in 1993, has been working to clean up contamination there and also has provided bottled water and/or reverse-osmosis filtration systems to nearby residents.

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The Air Force removed three top commanders at Laughlin Air Force Base on Wednesday citing concerns about dangerous and threatening behavior at the major pilot training installation in Texas, the service’s Air Education and Training Command announced.

Cannon Air Force Base officials announced two weeks ago that potentially carcinogenic chemicals present in an old fire-fighting foam used on base had seeped into the groundwater on and around the Clovis-area base.

The spambot that a Cannon Air Force Base airman is accused of installing caused the cellphone to receive a long string of messages that damaged the phone.

The mission included more than 450 airmen, who began returning in early October to the sights and sounds of family members gathered at the flight line welcoming them home. The remaining contingent of airmen returned last week.

The Air Force has delivered its largest shipment of ordnance to Europe since NATO’s 1999 bombing campaign in the Balkans, a move that is part of a broader rearmament on the continent.

A shortage of pilots caused by a surge in retirements, national security needs and demand for air travel continues to hamper the Air Force. This usually happens when the economy is strong and commercial airlines are hiring. But this time is different.

The Coast guard, Air Force and Navy have been surveying damage on the islands of Saipan and Tinian, moving supplies and assisting residents in the wake of Super Typhoon Yutu, the most powerful storm to hit American soil in modern history.

The Air Force announced it would try to accommodate cases where separating or retiring airmen are in the process of moving to their home of record if there is a base nearby with an opening for their grade and specialty.

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"This is a vitally important base," Vice President Mike Pence said during his visit to Tyndall Air Force Base. "And you have proved your meddle once again."

Colder weather, winds out of the north and efforts to increase pilot output may lead to increased noise from overflying Vance Air Force Base aircraft in coming months, according to a statement released this week by the 71st Flying Training Wing office of public affairs.

Like many people, Alicia Barnett was struck by the devastation of Hurricane Michael. And, as an Air Force spouse, she was concerned about airmen and families dealing with the near-total destruction of Tyndall Air Force Base — so she launched an effort to gather donations for military families affected by the storm.

Infinity Systems Engineering of Colorado Springs will hire two more staff members early next year and another six to 10 in early 2021 to complete the contract awarded by the Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center.

Maj. Gen. Shaun Q. Morris, commander of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Kirtland Air Force, stressed the need for more students to take courses in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM.

In two years, replacement costs for the mugs, which contain a heating element and are used to heat coffee and tea on aircraft, had gone up more than $500 per cup, leading the service to spend $32,000 this year for just 25 cups, according to the Air Force.

An airman at Fairchild Air Force Base developed a mechanism to hold the landing-gear doors closed on the nose of the KC-135 Stratotanker, a 1950s-era fuel-transportation aircraft.

Col. Brian Laidlaw has a satellite image on his cellphone showing the eye of Hurricane Michael making landfall. Peer deep into the left side of the eye and you can see two parallel lines. Those are his runways. You see some structures. Those are his hangars.

Boeing’s new KC-46 Pegasus tanker completed its maiden trip across the Pacific Tuesday when it touched down at the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo.

An annual mission to the South Pole that involves hundreds of members of a New York Air National Guard unit is now underway.

The change, which takes effect Feb. 1, is a reversal of up-or-out rules from 2013 used as a force-reduction tool during sequestration.

Security concerns ranging from terrorism and refugees to maritime piracy and poaching prevention are part of the talks at a conference of senior air force commanders from across Africa and the United States that opened Monday.

Some 400 people returned to Tyndall Air Force Base this week to assess the damage to their homes caused by Hurricane Michael and retrieve belongings.

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Although buffeted by Hurricane Michael, Air Force Capt. Ryan Torres and Christina Blair found some solid footing for themselves, their family and friends Friday as they were united in marriage.

Air Force veteran Christopher Endicott killed Jarrett Greene in a St. Louis parking lot on March 3, 2016, and claimed self-defense because Greene had an unloaded pistol in his pocket and had racked it shortly before the shooting.

With his demand that the Pentagon create a new military service — a Space Force to assure "American dominance in space" — President Donald Trump has injected urgency into a long-meandering debate over the best way to protect U.S. interests in space, both military and commercial.

Officials are urging people not to eat deer from near a marsh that borders a former military base in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula due to potential contamination.

The U.S. military is investing millions into a Cold War base in Estonia where Soviet attack jets once ruled the skies.

The Air Force has launched a crowd-sourcing effort called the “Revolutionizing Pilot Training Open Challenge” to work out a few technological bugs uncovered during the first class of its Pilot Training Next program.

Despite improvements, many families living on base are dissatisfied with their housing situations, calling the homes “substandard.” To complicate matters even more, many families feel forced to live in the homes in order to avoid sending their children to Montgomery's public school system.

The California guardsman killed Tuesday in a fighter jet crash in Ukraine has been identified as Lt. Col. Seth “Jethro” Nehring.

Under development by the Atlanta-based Generation Orbit Launch Services, the X-60A is aimed at helping the Air Force perfect such technologies as scramjet propulsion, high-temperature materials and autonomous control.

Structural engineers from Lockheed Martin will head to Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Florida to assess damage to F-22 Raptors left behind during Hurricane Michael, an Air Force spokeswoman said.

An Air National Guard member from California was killed along with a Ukrainian servicemember in a Ukrainian Su-27UB fighter crash Tuesday evening during a large-scale military aviation exercise.

On Wednesday, the Air Force will begin allowing families to visit their homes on Tyndall Air Force Base to collect valuables and take photographs, but it is expected to take years for the base to fully recover.

Maj. Stephen Del Bagno “became completely incapacitated for a period” as he practiced the “High Bomb Burst Rejoin” maneuver alongside five other Thunderbirds pilots April 4 at the Nevada Test and Training Range near Las Vegas.

U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Africa issued a statement saying it "can confirm a U.S. service member was involved in this incident," but was unable to confirm the pilot's death.

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Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Kaleth Wright surveyed the damage at Tyndall on Sunday, visiting with the 93 airmen who rode out the storm on base.

The U.S. Air Force is not acting to stop contaminated groundwater plumes coming off a former base that the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has identified as the source of the foam. Air Force officials said whether the foam is the result of releases from the former Wurtsmith site is unknown.

The Air Force has established a new headquarters organization aimed at meeting combatant commanders’ growing needs for special operations airmen, Col. James Hughes, the wing’s commander, told Stars and Stripes.

Air security and defense for the continental United States is being handled out of an “alternate location” after Hurricane Michael virtually destroyed Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., last week.

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How long Tyndall Air Force Base will remain closed is unknown after the coastal Florida installation sustained catastrophic damage from Hurricane Michael, which left nearly every building and some aircraft wrecked, service officials said Friday.

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American air power is taking over the British skies this week as the 48th Fighter Wing hosts massive aerial war games for visiting F-22 Raptor and U.S. Navy F-18 Super Hornet squadrons.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration images — of huge sections of roofs ripped off buildings, vehicles scattered and debris everywhere— show just how extensive the damage was at the Florida base.

Col. Rebecca O'Connor will become the third brigadier general currently serving in the Ohio Air National Guard, and become the chief of staff for the organization.

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The Category 4 storm, the strongest to ever hit the Florida Panhandle, tore roofing from aircraft hangars and mangled buildings at Tyndall, just outside Panama City, Fla., according to Air Force officials.

The Air Force on Wednesday awarded more than $2 billion in contracts combined to three companies to develop rockets capable of launching national security satellites, as part of an effort to increase competition.

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told a Senate panel that it will reach 80 percent readiness levels for those squadrons by 2020. The service is also increasing the number of students it trains to fly from 1,160 in 2017 to 1,311 in 2019 to 1,500 in 2022.

U.S. Air Force Academy basketball player Kennedy Beale planned to do just two or three back handsprings while on the field at a recent football game — but once she heard the Falcon Stadium crowd begin to roar, she had to keep going.

Staff Sgt. Eliction Chan, 27, assigned to the 374th Mission Support Group at Yokota Air Base, Japan, died Oct. 1, according to an Air Force statement issued last week.

The 135,000-acre installation is conducting prescribed burns over the next several weeks to rid training areas of dry grass that has been tinder for wildfires over the past year.

An Air Force Academy cadet already awaiting court-martial for sexual assault will face additional sexual misconduct charges at an evidence hearing Tuesday.

According to the indictment, between Aug. 1, 2013, and Nov. 24, 2015, the defendants conspired with each other to share bidding information that enabled Company G to win foreign intelligence contracts with the NSA.

Command Master Chief Sgt. Philip L. Easton was named Thursday as U.S. European Command’s next senior enlisted leader, the military announced Friday.

President Donald Trump was apparently angered over Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson’s handling of his directive to create a Space Force as a sixth and separate branch of the military, according to a Foreign Policy report.

A trio of the batwing bombers from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri spent a month and a half at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam — flying with Hawaii Air National Guard F-22 Raptor fighters and ranging out to Guam and remote Wake Island on training missions.

The launch, which was originally scheduled for Saturday evening, is now slated to begin at 7:21 p.m. Sunday, VAFB’s 30th Space Wing announced Wednesday.

A giant teddy bear attempted to breach the gate at Sheppard Air Force Base, leaving a trail of stuffing behind. The spectacle was part of an exercise at the base in Wichita Falls, Texas.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., recently met with U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson to push for more improvements at the Information Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Japanese reporters got a closeup look at one of five Air Force CV-22 Ospreys at the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo on Wednesday.

The Air Force is launching an experimental program to put pilots into the cockpit of the legendary U-2 spy plane faster and earlier in their careers. The move is in line with a service effort to increase pilot production in all airframes.

Henry Cobbs, a retired Air Force captain, was forced out of his job last month as dean of academics for the Air Force Special Operations School at Hurlburt Field for his use of cannabidiol, better known as CBD.

Col. John Howard agreed to accept discipline without a military trial in a process known as “non-judicial punishment proceedings.”

The Air Force adopted the Army’s Operational Camouflage Pattern, or OCP, on Monday, taking a first step toward retiring the much-maligned Airman Battle Uniform, or ABU, by April 2021.

Air Force Maj. Andreas O’Keeffe, who was from the Tampa, Fla. area, was in the co-pilot seat aboard a Pave Hawk helicopter that crashed March 15 after taking off from a base in western Iraq. O’Keeffe, 37, and six others on board were killed.

The officials made the comments during a House Armed Services Committee subpanel hearing focused on C-130 accidents and other aircraft concerns.

The unmanned surveillance aircraft from the 9th Reconnaissance Wing at Beale Air Force Base rolled into a nearly inverted position and entered a dive during the June 2017 incident.

The service plans to buy about 350 of Boeing's T-X aircraft to replace its T-38C Talons, which have been in service for 57 years. The contract calls for the plane to be ready for full operational deployment by 2034.

Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets IV will retire on Dec. 1, after not being allowed to pin on his second star and receiving a letter of admonishment, an Air Force spokeswoman said in response to a Stars and Stripes query Thursday.

It had taken Fredric Moore Mellor 53 years and a little over two months to come home. The 30-year-old Air Force pilot from Cranston, R.I. had disappeared after his plane was shot down during a reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam on Aug. 13, 1965.