November 2013

The Air Force Association 2014 Statement of Policy was adopted by the delegates to the AFA National Co

At AFA’s Air & Space Conference, top Air Force leaders described the tense balancing act between immed

The Active Duty, Guard, and Reserve are working to overcome last year’s hostility.

America’s allies around the volatile Persian Gulf are low key, but have high importance.

The French got a big boost from USAF tankers and airlifters in this year’s fight against Islamic extre

The Iraq war is over. Afghanistan is ending. Operation Noble Eagle must continue.

A new PACAF concept gets F-22s to the fight fast.

After a 20-year production run, Boeing has delivered the Air Force’s final Globemaster III.

Who will call in air strikes in Afghanistan after 2014?

He was the leader of the most popular band in the nation and too old to be drafted, but he felt a pers

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Airman Killed in Crash in Colombia MSgt. Martin L. Gonzales, 39, died in the crash of a US-contracted DH-8 aircraft in Colombia, announced US Southern Command. The aircraft was monitoring for drug smugglers near the Panamanian border on Oct. 5...

Worst Case Is Pretty Bad “This is fundamentally terra incognita. … I don’t think we’ve seen electronic warfare on a scale that we’d see in a US-China confrontation. I doubt very much they are behind us when it comes to...

“Gettysburg Address” President Abraham Lincoln Dedicatory Remarks at Soldiers’ National Cemetery Gettysburg, Pa. Nov. 19, 1863 FULL TEXT VERSION It was 150 years ago this month that Abraham Lincoln came to Gettysburg, Pa., to make a few “dedicatory remarks” at...

Bet They Want Our Business, Though I suggest Eglin [AFB, Fla.] do a survey like F. E. Warren AFB, Wyo., did back in the ’50s when residents were complaining about airmen walking on their streets and posted signs: “Dogs and...

National Teacher of the Year At the Air Force Association’s National Convention, a science teacher from Charleston, S.C., became the 28th recipient of AFA’s National Aerospace Teacher of the Year award. Margaret Spigner is the science department chairwoman at West...

Getting USAF back in focus; Mending fences; The A-10 a vertical

Aerospace technology of the highest order was on display at