Air Force bases in the path of Hurricane Idalia appeared to dodge major damage from the storm as it swept through Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina this week and are in the process of recovering and reopening.
MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., has evacuated its personnel and KC-135 aircraft as Hurricane Idalia approaches Florida's Gulf coast. As of 4 p.m. Aug. 29, all base personnel have been evacuated and MacDill is closed and secured, an Air Force spokeswoman told Air & Space ...
Aeromedical evacuation Airmen are thinking outside the box as they prepare to face more casualties, unstable communications and difficult moral choices in a near-peer fight.
Nine C-17s flowed into Kabul overnight after the international airport opened, carrying in more U.S. troops for security and conducting evacuations of American, Afghan, and other third-country people following a chaotic day at the last U.S.-controlled position in Afghanistan. Pentagon spokesman John F. Kirby said ...
Military flight operations at Kabul’s airport resumed Aug. 16 after a period of chaos halted flights. Images and videos circulating online showed desperate Afghans mobbing U.S. Air Force C-17s as they took off to evacuate Americans and others, as the Taliban reclaimed control of the ...
Non-essential personnel and their families evacuated from Travis Air Force Base on Aug. 19 because of the threat of the LNU Lightning Complex Fire, 60th Air Mobility Wing spokesperson Capt. Amanda M. Farr confirmed to Air Force Magazine. The base also began evacuating its aircraft ...