Inflation is “destroying any joy we may have been able to afford,” the Airman wrote. “We are literally grasping at pennies to survive and it’s killing us.” Statements from the Airman—stationed at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M.—and many others came in response to Military Times’ call for comments on how inflation has impacted service members and their families.
A Russian missile strike killed more than 50 people and injured scores of others on Sept. 3, Ukrainian officials said, the latest in a series of devastating bombardments of Ukraine and one of the deadliest attacks of the two-and-a-half-year war.
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Sgt. Maj. Troy Black speaks with his hands. And while talking around a conference table near the Pentagon briefing room, he reached for the only thing in the room to make his point: two remotes and five water bottles. Putting them in a row, one by one, Black made a list of enlisted personnel’s expenses: a phone bill, insurance, gas, rent, electricity, childcare, food. “These are all closer to being requirements than they are luxuries,” he said.
The U.S. Air Force within the past several months appears to have increased its push to modernize its air refueling force based on a new understanding of threats, and the impetus to renew the fleet is important despite a coming budget crunch, the outgoing head of the service’s mobility forces argues.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Space Force are trying to figure out how they can work side-by-side to collect and distribute space-based intelligence to military users around the world. Military leaders are asking for speedier access to images from commercial satellites, which they say is vital in fast-changing situations.
Two years ago, the entire world spent an estimated $800 million on data labeling: the painstaking process of annotating images and other information to train machine-learning and AI models. Now, the Pentagon’s mapping agency is prepping a data-labeling effort that will spend nearly that much all by itself.
After moving to halve the fleet in fiscal year 2025, a new Pentagon review says the Air Force now plans to add over a dozen MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters back into the aircraft’s program of record—averting a “critical” cost breach in the process.
The U.S. Air Force recently awarded contracts to two companies for work on SHARK ‘buddy store’ podded aerial refueling systems able to work with aircraft that use the boom method to get gas in flight.
As he fights for his political survival, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence on keeping troops on a narrow strip of land along the Gaza-Egypt border has become the main obstacle to a cease-fire and hostage-release agreement with Hamas, according to current and former officials from mediating countries.
A Space Force officer will command a mission later this month to safely bring home two astronauts who have been unexpectedly stuck aboard the International Space Station, or ISS, marking the first time a Guardian will launch into space for such a high-profile operation.