Nine months after crews wrapped up $267 million in construction projects for the Boeing KC-46A Pegasus, it looks like McConnell Air Force Base is finally getting its tankers in October.

An aircraft maintainer assigned to the 352nd Special Operations Wing died Sunday evening after a motorcycle accident, Air Force officials said Wednesday.

The military has chosen Ellsworth Air Force Base and its B-1 bombers for the new AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, which is used to strike enemy ships from long distances.

A former Air Force captain from New Jersey has been sentenced by a Delaware judge to five years in prison for sexual solicitation of a child.

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During a ceremony honoring veterans and casualties of the World War II Battle for the Skies, Master of Ceremonies Jonathan Elias said that the legendary Tuskegee Airmen never lost a plane that they were escorting. Retired Air Force Col. Charles McGee wanted to clarify that.

A letter to airmen signed by the Air Force Secretary, Chief of Staff and Chief Master Sergeant said the service looks forward to working with the Defense Department, Congress and other national security partners to “move forward on this planning effort.”

The Air Force’s B-1B Lancers have been cleared to resume flying after a safety stand-down that grounded the fleet on June 7 because of concerns about the plane’s ejection seat components, officials said.

Oklahoma has moved to protect military airspace from wind farms that are proliferating in the state.

Col. Thomas P. Sherman made two firsts Tuesday: He made his first trip to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, and he became the installation commander of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — the largest Air Force base by population.

Peter J. Stewart, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force and a devout Catholic and family man, was remembered with full military honors 52 years after being shot down during the Vietnam War.

The Senate late Monday passed a $716 billion defense bill that included $116 million expansion of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio - one of the largest projects in the base's recent history.

More than 200 National Guardsmen have been assisting Hawaii County Civil Defense with jobs that include monitoring dangerous gas emissions from lava flows, manning security checkpoints, building emergency housing and conducting search-and-rescue missions.

Growing up, Margaret Stewart learned about and knew much about her grandfather, Peter Stewart: he was a colonel in the United States Air Force; the father of six flew combat missions in World War II, the Korean War and he in Vietnam. But she never got to meet him.

The president said the new force would be part of his administration’s efforts to return “American dominance” to space, as he vowed to send new missions to the moon and eventually to Mars.

Water officials shut the wells off when the contaminants PFOS and PFOA were discovered, said the wells were only rarely used, and that it’s unlikely people were exposed to enough contamination from them to be harmed.

Foreign military sales at a Wright-Patterson agency are likely trending to a "new norm" of about half of last year, according to the leader of the Air Force Security Assistance and Cooperation Directorate.

Col. Derek Salmi, who previously served at Royal Air Force Mildenhall in the United Kingdom, replaced Col. Ryan Samuelson, who led the base for the last two years.

Col. Jason Beers will be assigned as the chief of installations division at AFSOC Headquarters at Hurlburt Field in Florida. His responsibilities will include managing funding for AFSOC’s security forces and civil engineering personnel, and implementing policy for the installations division.

Wright-Patterson’s outgoing commander said it will be important for the military base and surrounding communities to work together to maintain safe drinking water in the Miami Valley.

Waste Management workers, many of them veterans, save thrown-out flags in a special bin near the sorting machine. From there, the flags are retired with due ceremony, according to a complex series of rules based on generations of American tradition.

Last week, the commander of the Air Force Global Strike Command ordered a "safety stand down" of all B-1B Lancers after an emergency landing in Midland, Texas, in May prompted an investigation that revealed problems with the long-range bomber's ejection seats.

An Air Force officer with top security clearance who deserted 35 years ago and was arrested in California last week worked for years as a consultant for the University of California system, former colleagues said.

An airman stationed in North Carolina but who claims Alabama residency testified that he was denied a concealed carry pistol permit from the Calhoun County, Alabama sheriff's office. The sheriff testified the man falsified his address during the application process, raising questions of residency for service members.

A bipartisan group of 10 senators have demanded the Trump administration release a study on exposure to chemicals found in groundwater at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and other installations across the country.

The Pentagon has agreed to resolve major technical deficiencies with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter before moving ahead with full-rate production, according to the Government Accountability Office.

Maj. Gen. Kirk W. Smith took command Tuesday of special operations troops in Europe, where he will lead a team of Green Berets and SEALs working to bolster allied militaries along NATO’s eastern flank.

Air Force housing officials are preparing to move 31 families from two Vogelweh multistory housing complexes as quickly as possible after an apartment ceiling collapse that brought down a fan and lighting fixtures.

Personal stories to take center stage at Italy garrison’s LGBT pride event

The Air Force plans to resume F-15 flight training Wednesday, two days after an F-15C Eagle crashed into waters south of the island prefecture in southern Japan.

An Army 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) soldier killed nearly 10 years ago in Afghanistan has been remembered in a touching letter to his family from a high-profile Ohio State University football player.

A military judge has found a Scott Air Force Base senior airman guilty of attempted sexual abuse of a child and attempted sexual assault of a child.

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The pilot of an F-15C Eagle from Kadena Air Base ejected and was recovered by the crew of a Japan Air Self-Defense Force helicopter, according to the Air Force and the Okinawa Defense Bureau.

Two South Carolina-based fighter pilots are being honored for saving 88 soldiers in Afghanistan who were surrounded by attacking forces that had them pinned down.

When Addam Byers brought the trailer frame and metal structure to West Virginia, the neighbors were willing and eager to help.

The new structure, announced Friday by the service, allows parents to coordinate leave time between primary and secondary caregivers in a way that is most beneficial to their living circumstances.

The Air Force grounded all B-1B Lancer heavy bombers as of Thursday to conduct a fleet-wide safety investigation in the wake of an emergency landing by a Lancer last month.

China and Russia are surpassing the United States in acquiring a technology the Pentagon has tried and failed to develop for years: a maneuverable missile that could fly many times the speed of sound and strike anywhere in the world within an hour or two, senior military officials say.

Capt. William Howard Hughes Jr., who had top secret clearance and access to NATO secret information when he deserted from the Air Force, was apprehended at his home in California on Wednesday, investigators said.

Peterson Air Force Base will lose 72 airmen and civilians after Air Force Space Command was stripped of its role overseeing the service's computer warfare efforts.

The Air Force canceled expensive upgrades to 196 F-15C fighters last year as it hammered out a plan to retire the jets, according to a recently declassified report.

A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for July 6 in the case of Col. John Howard, a former commander at Scott Air Force Base who was ousted after sexual assault allegations surfaced.

The idea of hooking up the M-50 joint-service, general-purpose mask to an aircraft was hatched during brainstorming sessions by airmen from Yokota’s 374th Maintenance Squadron and 374th Operations Support Squadron.

Residents of an apartment in a multistory building at Vogelweh were fortunate not to be home Tuesday evening when a ceiling collapse brought down lights and a ceiling fan and exposed electrical wires.

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The airmen assigned to the newest units of the 31st Fighter Wing won’t all be parachuting onto base like the five that jumped on Tuesday, though dozens more probably could do that.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency found the remains of Army Air Forces Sgt. Alfonso O. Duran's remains last summer next to a church in the Slovenian countryside. He had been missing since his plane was shot down during World War II.

The Air Force, working with the White House Military Office, reviewed the investment for the "chiller replacement" and decided to terminate the effort, weighing the high cost of the new refrigerators against progress on replacement planes for Air Force One that are in the works.

Charges against ousted Scott Air Force Base commander Col. John Howard indicate that he was accused of sexual misconduct at or near at least two separate military bases over more than a year.

Senior Airman Trevor Moheit was identified Tuesday as the driver who was killed in a Sunday morning crash in Sumter County, S.C.

Beginning at 7 p.m. Tuesday and continuing through 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, the 437th Airlift Wing and the 315th Airlift Wing at Joint Base Charleston will be posting messages on Facebook and Twitter. The messages will be conversational in tone, as if social media been available during the air invasion phase of D-Day.

A pair of Air Force CV-22 Ospreys made an unscheduled landing on a southern Japanese island Monday after a warning light came on in one of the tiltrotor aircraft.

Col. Derek O'Malley will lead the 20th Fighter Wing, the Air Force's largest F-16 Fighting Falcon combat wing. He also will preside over the day-to-day operations of Shaw Air Force Base.

Col. John Howard was charged with two counts of cruelty and maltreatment, two counts of sexual assault, one count of conduct unbecoming an officer, and one count of fraternization in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

On the morning of June 5, 1963, a 707 carrying John F. Kennedy approached the runway. He was 46 years old, a war hero, a Pulitzer-Prize winning author, the father of two young children and the leader of the free world. In a few minutes, he would add "instant graduate" of the Air Force Academy to his dazzling resume.

U.S. Air Forces in Europe said in a recent statement that it is operating an MQ-9 Reaper aircraft at Miroslawiec Air Base “as a visible expression of U.S. efforts to enhance regional stability.”

The STEP program allows major commands, field operating agencies, direct reporting unit commanders and senior Air Force officers with large enlisted populations to promote airmen to the ranks of staff sergeant through master sergeant.

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The massive, newly renovated base exchange adds 25,000 feet of floor space to its largest facility at Yokota so that it can accommodate products that were sold at a shop that shut down last year.

When Elaine McPherson bid farewell to her husband and his unit as they left for a deployment about nine months ago, so many tears were shed by everyone present she ran out of tissues. That was the beginning of what became the Sniffle Station located inside the Valdosta Regional Airport.

Col. Joel W. Safranek, former vice commander of the 621st Contingency Response Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, assumed command from Col. Ethan C. Griffin in a ceremony Wednesday.

Northrop is taking an average of 400 days per aircraft to repair or refurbish the inventory of 16 "Jstars" surveillance jets first deployed in 1991, and "we would like to bring that number down" to make more aircraft available, Air Force spokesman Derek Kaufman said in an email.

Fourteen of the fifth-generation fighters from the 525th Fighter Squadron at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, will be stationed at Kadena Air Base for about a month, according Japan’s Mainichi newspaper.

Five U.S. CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, part of a Special Operations squadron of 10, are back at Yokota Air Base.

This month, the 366th Fighter Wing at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, began testing a new wing structure that does away with aircraft maintenance squadron, group and vice wing commanders.

Despite lingering concerns over plans to phase out the A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack jet, one of the mainstay missions at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, outgoing commander Col Scott Campbell says the base remains strong even as it clinched its second award as the Air Force's top installation.

Airman 1st Class Isaiah Edwards is in custody at Barksdale Air Force Base, and has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of Airman 1st Class Bradley Hale on March 26 at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.

While Air Force Gen. Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy wears an American uniform, underneath he's Canadian — making O'Shaughnessy's position as the new leader of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command especially meaningful.

The Voluntary Retired Return to Active Duty program is being expanded to all pilots and maximum tour lengths are being more than doubled to help ease a serious shortage of qualified aviators.

It takes a lot to scare Gen. Lori Robinson, who has led the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command through one of the busiest times. But, what's happening Thursday at Peterson Air Force Base is something she finds daunting, if not terrifying: retirement.

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The 984 graduates at the Air Force Academy on Wednesday got an unedited introduction to the difficult world they now face as new officers. The graduation's keynote speaker, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, told the group they will see battle soon. And they will be expected to win every fight.

“Specially trained” activists will participate in the protest at the air base, scheduled to run from June 23 to July 1, organizers with the Berlin-based “Stopp Ramstein — No Drone War” alliance told reporters.

It has been more than 15 years since U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Scott Sather died in combat in Iraq. On May 27, Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Jamie McMurray will carry Sather's name on his windshield around the track as part of a Memorial Day weekend tribute.

Nearly 1,000 cadets will graduate from the Air Force Academy next Wednesday in a ceremony that features a speech from America's Defense boss and a performance of the Air Force Thunderbirds flying team.

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Top Pentagon officials are telling some pretty tall tales in seeking congressional support for a new, low-yield, nuclear warhead to put on a long-range, submarine-launched ballistic missile. Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, gave the most unusual rationale when he testified on March 20 before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

An Air Force colonel has been relieved of command from the 317th Airlift Wing at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas for creating a toxic environment, according to an Air Force announcement Thursday.

Lt. Gen. Richard M. Clark was nominated for a position that falls under Headquarters U.S. Air Force at the Pentagon.

An Air Force base in North Dakota that is missing some military explosives is now also searching for a machine gun.

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For Air Force Maj. Paul "Loco" Lopez, Jr., 35, flying is like "a little kid going to the toy store," he said.

The initial Air Force tweet appeared to be an attempt to garner attention using a hashtag that has generated a large Internet audience in the last few days. But the background of the battle in Farah is much starker.

“The big purpose here is how do we standardize our procedures for mixed formation for aircraft so we can enhance in-flight refueling with our NATO partners,” said 100th ARW vice commander Col. David Lenderman.

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The rumble of World War II planes soared over the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on Wednesday in a tribute to the restoration of the iconic B-17F Memphis Belle.

Lt. Gen. Charles Brown Jr., if confirmed, will be promoted to general and also become executive director of Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

Kirtland Air Force Base officials and community leaders broke ground Monday afternoon on a $14.8 million building and new HH-60W combat rescue helicopter simulator that will be used to train pilots and crews.

The Air Force Thunderbirds announced Monday they’ll perform next week in Virginia, their first air show since the April 4 death of team member Maj. Stephen “Cajun” Del Bagno during a training flight.

Retired Air Force Col. Bruce Hollywood was done searching. As an adult, he had found his Japanese birth mother and thanked her. He didn't feel a need to find his father, who had been in the U.S. Air Force. Then, a few years ago, he grew curious.

The 56th and 57th Rescue Squadrons' home at RAF Lakenheath, nicknamed “The Valley of the Jolly Green Giants,” is now empty. Its squads have taken their final flight to a new base of operations in Italy.

The Air Force will adopt the Army’s Operation Camouflage Pattern combat uniform already worn by some airmen overseas as its official utility uniform for the entire service beginning in October, Air Force officials announced Monday.

An estimated 90,000 people came out on an overcast day to see the Blue Angels’ six F/A-18 Hornets, the Raptor and an A-10 Thunderbolt II close-air-support jet from the Air Force A-10 Demonstration team.

The Memphis Belle took off from England on the morning of May 17, 1943, with a wave of 159 B-17s to drop bombs on the concrete Nazi submarine shelters at Lorient, France. When it landed unscathed that afternoon, the 10 men aboard already were celebrating; they had just become one of the first bomber crews of the war to survive 25 missions at a time when most weren't making a dozen.

The defense focused on whether the female cadet had consented to sex. The trial was complicated by the woman's lack of recall.

A line of sweltering visitors snaked across the tarmac behind Lakeland Linder Regional Airport's terminal Friday, all waiting for a turn to climb up a ramp and into the belly of the U.S. Air Force's WC-130J Hurricane Hunter.

A key House committee has backed millions of dollars in new funding to extend the lives of more A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack jets – a mainstay of operations at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base – and to buy more Tomahawk cruise missiles made by Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems.

Two Russian long-range bombers were intercepted off the coast of Alaska by a pair of F-22 Raptor fighter jets on Friday, the military said.

Sixty years after it was formed in a partnership between the United States and Canada, NORAD continues to monitor the world’s airspace, waters and land.

Col. Jason Costello, an F-22 Raptor pilot with North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command in Colorado Springs, is charged with raping a sleeping woman while in Rhode Island in October and December 2014.

The Afghan air force has for the first time flown a mission with its newly delivered UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, officials said Wednesday.

Prosecutors say witnesses saw Air Force Academy senior cadet Samuel Kyle Fuller with his pants down as he sexually assaulted a classmate who was so drunk she had to be half-carried back to her dormitory after a night at the only bar on campus.