Every military service is constantly developing and tweaking tactics. But for the Space Force in particular, their importance—and the process by which the young service develops and approves them—is only growing. That development was highlighted last month by the first ever USSF Tactics Development Conference, ...
Warfighter Training
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. wants leaders to understand how to empower subordinates to make decisions, a skillset he believes will be essential to winning a possible future conflict where units may find themselves isolated from command.
MQ-9 drone student operators are now trained to land and take off via satellite, dramatically shrinking the footprint of of personnel and equipment needed for Reaper operations. Previously, Reapers have been flown by operators in faraway ground control stations but launched and recovered by Airmen ...
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 ...
Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., received its first four F-35 fighter jets on Aug. 1, marking a historic milestone five years after Hurricane Michael devastated the base.
Air and ground crews from across the Air Force fighter enterprise will gather at the Air Dominance Center in Savannah, Georgia from Sept. 11-15 to test their skills at the 2023 William Tell Air-to-Air Weapons meet, the first of its kind in nearly two decades.
World-Readiness: Mobility Guardian 2023; Cuts to F-15E Fleet; A Look at Classified Information Regulations.
Brig. Gen. Timothy Sejba took over as the head of Space Training and Readiness Command on July 20, succeeding Maj. Gen. Shawn N. Bratton at a time when the Space Force is looking to upgrade its test and training infrastructure and develop new doctrine and ...
Aeromedical evacuation Airmen practiced operating with degraded or denied communications as part of Mobility Guardian 23, a joint, multinational training exercise involving 70 aircraft and 3,000 personnel currently ongoing across the Indo-Pacific.