On the 100th anniversary of the first aerial refueling mission, the Air Force sought to highlight the behind-the-scenes efforts of some of its most essential planes with Operation Centennial Contact. More than 150 tankers from 26 installations were involved in large-scale flyovers across the country.
Operational Imperative 7: Readiness to Deploy And Fight
The Air Force does not have serious long-term concerns about recruiting, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall said on June 22. "We have things that we can do to manage our way through this, so we're not in any kind of crisis," Kendall said ...
Aeromedical evacuation Airmen are thinking outside the box as they prepare to face more casualties, unstable communications and difficult moral choices in a near-peer fight.
Two Air Force veterans from opposite sides of the political aisle will chair a new House Armed Services Committee panel on quality of life issues affecting military families and service members. Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), a retired USAF brigadier general and RC-135 pilot, chairs the panel, ...
The House Armed Services personnel subcommittee advanced legislation June 12 to establish a Space National Guard and to pave the way for part-time Guardians, rather than form a Space Force Reserve. Subcommittee members voted to turn the 14 units and 1,000 space-focused Airmen in the Air ...
At the Department of the Air Force level, the Women’s Initiatives Team is leading the charge to change policies and support female Airmen. At the major command level, there are “Athena” teams. At the heart of them all is a desire to help female Airmen, “to ...
Four U.S. Air Force bombers are deploying to Europe as part of a reassurance mission for America's NATO allies. It did not take long for Russia to take note. Two B-1B Lancer bombers “were operating in international airspace in the Baltic Sea region alongside NATO allies ...
A line of 21 C-5s, C-17s, and KC-10s rolled down the runway and into the skies over Travis Air Force Base, Calif. on May 12 in a “maximum aircraft generation event.” The impressive display of airpower came on the final day of a nearly two-week ...
More than 50 Air Force career fields—from bomber maintenance to cryptologic language analyst to dental hygienist—are eligible for retention bonuses this year, a slight decline from last year. The Air Force’s Selective Retention Bonus program offers extra compensation to enlisted Airmen in career fields with especially ...