The Air Mobility Warfare Center at Fort Dix, N.J., is spreading the work about its introductory interactive distance-learning air mobility operations course. Officials say the online course has gotten rave reviews, commenting about its “outside the box” approach and “big picture” attitude. It has take the place of a two-week, in-residence course that cost about $2,000 per student, say Air Mobility Command officials.
Happy Birthday US Air Force: 78 Today
Sept. 18, 2025
Seventy-eight years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1947, Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first ever Secretary of the Air Force, and the Air Force officially became the first new military service since the Revolutionary War.