The Air Force is instituting a new bonus program to entice its pilots to stay in the service by encouraging them to re-up years in advance. The Rated Officer Retention Demonstration program, formally unveiled Aug. 15, will offer bonuses of up to $50,000 per year to ...
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The continuing freeze on general and flag officer nominations in the Senate is affecting everything from wing commanders to the Air Force and Space Force’s vice chiefs. More than 100 Air Force and Space Force officers are now stuck in limbo. In some cases, generals ...
Four Russian military aircraft operated near Alaska on Aug. 13 and 14, according to NORAD, roughly two weeks after a flotilla of Russian and Chinese warships conducting joint exercises near the Aleutian Islands were shadowed by the Navy. On the same day, multiple NATO countries ...
Three B-2 bombers have deployed to Keflavik, Iceland, where they will operate and participate in exercises with other USAF aircraft and air forces of allied and partner countries, the service announced. The deployment is the second of the B-2 to Iceland but the first since ...
Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. is building three state-of-the-art F-35 hangars for the 325th Maintenance Group, but they will not be completed until 2026.
Six C-130J aircraft at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, received a special paint job and decals recently to show off over the beaches of Normandy, France, on the 80th anniversary of D-Day next June. Maintainers painted black-and-white stripes on the 37th Airlift Squadron’s C-130s to mimic the ...
Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve personnel were activated across the Western United States this week to help fight wildfires raging from Hawaii to Oregon to Alaska.
The end of an era is swiftly approaching for the Air Force Reserve’s 301st Fighter Wing, with one squadron wrapping up its final deployment with the F-16 Fighting Falcon before switching to the F-35A Lightning II in 2024.
Northrop Grumman and the Air Force successfully demonstrated a new mission update system for the B-2 bomber in a two-day event at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., last month. The system receives new mission parameters and feeds them directly into the B-2’s computers without the ...