The public memorial service for Air Force Staff Sgt. Dylan Elchin, who was killed Nov. 27 alongside two Green Berets when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, included more than 100 fellow special tactics airmen from units in Florida and New Mexico, filling the 500-seat auditorium to capacity, the local daily reported.

Due to cutbacks, U.S. Army Europe tax centers will limit assistance mostly to servicemembers that fall below a certain rank and income level during the 2019 tax season, Army officials said.

At least two civilians recently drove unchallenged through the main gate at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., the first act in a bizarre unfolding of kidnapping and sexual-assault allegations made and then retracted, according to multiple news reports.

Former airman Devin Kelley should have been disqualified from legally obtaining guns after his court-martial conviction in 2012 of assaulting his wife and stepson while in the service, which led to a bad-conduct discharge.

Friends and family are paying their respects to U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Dylan Elchin at a public memorial service. The services got underway Thursday afternoon at Impact Christian Church, in Moon Township.

Pegasus has been certified to refuel some of the military's most essential combat and support aircraft, including the F-16, F/A-18 and B-52.

The U.S. Air Force is violating the state’s Water Quality Act by failing to properly respond to contaminated groundwater discovered on and around eastern New Mexico’s Cannon Air Force Base, the state contends.

Capt. Sean Miller was convicted Tuesday after sharing hundreds of sexually explicit messages, photographs and videos with two Air Force Office of Special Investigations undercover agents whom he believed to be 14 years old.

Senior Master Sgt. Israel Del Toro Jr., survivor of a 2005 roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan, appeared on an episode of "Bumping Mics With Jeff Ross & Dave Attell."

The Pentagon has decided to locate the F-35 Hybrid Product Support Integrator Organization at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, with the potential for more to be located at the base over the next several years.

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Nestled close to Kadena’s flight line sits a small, unassuming off-white building with nondescript lettering on the side. Without it, operations at the largest air base in the Pacific would screech to a halt.

“We have probably about $7 million worth of damage that we’re going to have to work on in the next several months,” Col. Mark Lamey, acting 673rd Medical Group commander, said during a town hall meeting.

The companies said Tuesday they’ve agreed to pitch Airbus’s A330 jetliner-based multi-role tanker transport, or MRTT, to plug a shortfall in the Air Force’s midair refueling capabilities and also to develop entirely new programs.

A rousing cheer went up in an auditorium at the Air Force Academy as a cadet-built satellite hurtled toward orbit Monday aboard a Space X rocket, marking the latest milestone for the academy's ambitious student space program.

Friends and family will be given the chance to pay their respects to fallen U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Dylan Elchin later this week at a public memorial service in Pennsylvania.

A Japanese court has awarded $842,000 to people living near the home of U.S. Forces Japan as compensation for aircraft noise, according to the leader of a residents group.

Aria Saito, a Tokyo resident, was charged Friday with murder and violation of the Swords and Firearms Control Law in the death of Air Force Master Sgt. Nicholas Vollweiler.

Lt. Col. Paul Goossen was fired from his job at Minot Air Base in North Dakota earlier this week after an internal investigation revealed he failed to stop airmen from leaving phallic drawings on vehicles and cockpits during a 69th Bomb Squadron deployment.

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Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson sustained a water leak Friday and only necessary personnel are now permitted on the base after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit about seven miles northwest of the Anchorage, Alaska installation.

Vice President Mike Pence and relatives of the men were at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to receive the remains.

In 1987, two Air Force flyers felt like sitting ducks in their crippled Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird aircraft over the Baltic Sea. This week, one of the pilots finally got a chance to meet and thank the Swedes who saved them.

Tyndall Elementary is one of a handful of schools that temporarily merged onto another campus because of facility destruction and community displacement from Hurricane Michael.

Days into the search for a missing Air Force Academy cadet candidate, Rocky Mountain National Park’s search and rescue team got a lead: A group of park visitors saw Micah Tice on Saturday morning in the Battle Mountain area near Longs Peak.

Chief Master Sgt. Terrence Greene, who had been taking on both roles of senior enlisted leader and command chief, relinquished the roles for Chief Master Sgt. Richard Winegardner Jr. and Chief Master Sgt. Brian Kruzelnick, respectively.

The Rhode Island National Guard has canceled its annual air show, one of the most popular events in the state in the summer.

A U.S. Air Force airman has pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact with a child while at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

An airman found dead on base early Monday has been identified as Airman 1st Class Owen Little, a member of the 31st Maintenance Squadron.

Air Force Capt. Joonki Min, 45, a Korean-American from Forest Park, Ill., was found at his on-base residence Monday, the 51st Fighter Wing’s public affairs office said Thursday.

Eleven C-130J Super Hercules aircraft took off in succession Thursday in a choreographed demonstration of their pilots’ ability to work together and in proximity.

Army Capt. Andrew Patrick Ross, 29, of Lexington, Va., Army Sgt. 1st Class Eric Michael Emond, 39, of Brush Prairie, Wash., and Air Force Staff Sgt. Dylan J. Elchin, 25, of Hookstown, Pa., died Tuesday when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device in Andar, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.

The United States Air Force Academy on Monday asked for assistance locating cadet candidate Micah Tice, 20, of Las Vegas, who was last heard from on Friday, according to a news release.

As workers replace and add chain-link fences around rotting dormitories and graffitied ranch houses at the old North Truro Air Force Station on Cape Cod, officials agree that a plan for a vibrant cultural center has gone nowhere.

Lt. Col. Paul Goossen, commander of the 69th Bomb Squadron at Minot Air Force Base, was removed from command Tuesday for failure to maintain a professional workplace environment.

The French air force is joining Exercise Point Blank for the first time this year to train alongside U.S. and British forces based at RAF Lakenheath and RAF Marham.

Authorities say a senior enlisted leader stationed at Schriever Air Force Base died in a rock climbing accident.

Six F-22 Raptor aircraft from the 325th Fighter Wing out of Tyndall Air Force Base have moved to another western Florida base to continue its training mission after Tyndall was devastated by Hurricane Michael more than a month ago, according to service officials.

An American airman assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing was found dead on base early Monday morning, the Italian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

Known for being staid and secretive, Air Force Space Command is now looking for help from a crowd best known for “man buns” and YouTube channels.

The Falcons hope to chalk up a season of near misses to growing pains. The team lost seven games, but none by more than 10 points. The average margin in those defeats was 6.2 points.

Faced with a shortage of some 2,000 pilots, the Air Force’s service academy is trying to churn out more pilot candidates.

The lasting legacy of the current Air Force football team may end up being the number of pilots it will send to the Air Force, as coach Troy Calhoun said he believed this class received a record number of pilot training spots.

Cadet 1st Class James Brahm, of Huntsville, Ala., and Cadet 1st Class Madison Tung, of Santa Monica, Calif., are the Air Force Academy's 40th and 41st recipients of the award since it was established in 1902 by philanthropist Cecil Rhodes.

The U.S. routinely sends the aircraft to the South China Sea — where more than $1.2 trillion in U.S. trade transits annually — and other parts of the Indo-Pacific as part of its “continuous bomber presence” missions out of Andersen Air Force Base.

Work will start in summer and the first F-35s are scheduled to arrive in 2021.

Thirty-five F-35A Lightning IIs were launched in about 11 minutes for Monday’s drill at Hill Air Force Base, Utah.

Military officials formally reopened the Selah Airstrip on Thursday morning as a C-17 Globemaster from Joint Base Lewis-McChord landed on the 5,200-foot-long asphalt strip. Two mobile rocket launchers then drove off the plane and over to an area alongside the airfield and, with two other units, fired a salvo over a nearby ridge.

Fellow airmen recalled Master Sgt. Nicholas Vollweiler's service, his love of tattoos and motorcycles, and his adoption of a former military working dog.

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.

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.

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.