A 20th Special Operations Squadron CV-22 Osprey aircrew was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with Valor for a combat rescue mission last year in the US Central Command area of operations. Pilots Capt. Jonathan Seagle and Capt....
The US is flying intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance flights over a section of Afghanistan that was hit by an earthquake on Monday. The magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck northeastern Afghanistan, along with parts of Pakistan, India, and Tajikistan and killed dozens, reported...
Michigan Air National Guard A-10s returned last week to Selfridge ANGB, Mich., from deployment to an undisclosed base in the Persian Gulf. The jets tallied some 1,600 sorties and 11,000 combat flying hours supporting the fight against ISIS over Iraq...
US Central Command has named two one-star generals to oversee a complete investigation into the Oct. 3 AC-130 attack on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanist?an, that killed dozens. They are: Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Armfield, CENTCOM’s...
US and Canadian forces completed the homeland defense Exercise Vigilant Shield 16 this week at Goose Bay, Labrador. Some 700 Air Force, Navy, and Canadian Forces took part in the two-week interoperability exercise at forward operating locations in Labrador and...
The Missile Defense Agency on Monday awarded Lockheed Martin a $784 million contract to build a new long-range radar to protect the US from ballistic missile attacks. The project, called the Long Range Discrimination Radar system, will use a high-powered...
The 2015-2016 CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Defense Competition has registered 3,379 teams representing all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, and DOD dependent schools in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, and South Korea....
US forces approved the use of helmet cameras by Peshmerga fighters in the Oct. 22 raid on an ISIS prison in Hawijah, Iraq, that freed about 70 hostages and resulted in the death of one US soldier. Peshmerga officials on...