June 2012

USAF must solve the F-22’s oxygen problem to change this narrative.

US forces go to “war” with the Thai and Singaporean Air Forces in an ever more important large-force e

The Air Force’s recruiting service, smallest among the military branches, is reinventing itself to att

Air Combat Command aims to place Active Duty pilots and maintainers in every Guard and Reserve fighter

Air Mobility Command is carefully realigning its plans to accommodate the new defense strategy and tig

The Air Force is at the front of the cyber frontier, where the threats are numerous, nebulous, and dan

Teams from the Colorado Springs Civil Air Patrol and Alamo Academies in San Antonio took home top hono

Lawmakers are concerned that many of the Air Force’s cost-saving moves may be penny-wise but pound-foo

Nancy Hoover, AFA’s National Teacher of the Year, uses a multidisciplinary approach to get kids hooked

The critics sneered at it, but the Soviets weren’t so sure.

The North Vietnamese forces massed, and that opened them up to attack from US airpower.

Replacing aircraft on the fly; No rest for the weary Air Force; The essential F-35; A Hostage warning;

First C-17 Retires The Air Force’s prototype C-17 transport recently retired to the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, ending 21 years of testing at Edwards AFB, Calif. “This aircraft will serve as the representative C-17...

Money Talks … “If you give us force structure back, give us the money, too, because the quickest way I know to a hollow force is if you give us force structure and no money. To just indicate that [the...

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Yeah? No. I take exception to Lieutenant Colonel Piowaty’s critique of John Correll’s article, “The Man From Thud Ridge” [“Letters: Lie, Cheat, Steal,” May, p. 8]. I flew a tour in Thuds from Takhli and knew both Broughton and Piowaty....

Doolittle Raiders: 70th Reunion Air Force Association Chairman of the Board S. Sanford Schlitt attended the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders reunion in Dayton, Ohio, in April. AFA Board Chairman Sandy Schlitt (standing, at right) applauds during a B-25 flyover at the...