Air

Faces of the Force

Aug. 28, 2026
Members of the Alaska ANG’s 176th Wing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, rescued the pilot of a single-engine floatplane that crashed about 25 miles south of Anchorage. An HH-60W Jolly Green II with the 210th Rescue Squadron, carrying two pararescuemen...
Courage in the face of danger. On March 4, 1976, President Gerald Ford presented the Medal of Honor to the parents of a remarkable hero. Lance Sijan was born in Milwaukee in 1942. He was big, brash, handsome, and self-confident....
Summer is a unique time at the U.S. Air Force Academy for cadets to focus almost entirely on military training, unconstrained by competing academic, sports, and extracurricular priorities.

WORLD: National Security

Aug. 28, 2026
JB Charleston Gets a New Name  By Chris Gordon CHARLESTON, S.C.—A major East Coast military base that serves as a key Air Force logistics hub was renamed after the late Sen. Lindsey Graham Aug. 10 in a ceremony led by...
Over the past year, Iranian drone and missile attacks killed American Soldiers at air bases in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, destroyed an E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control aircraft, and damaged other aircraft on the ground. The Combined Air Operations...