Air Force recruiters have made gains in new enlistments over the past few months, but the service still projects it will fall thousands of airmen short in critical units next year. To build on its ...

New airmen take the oath of enlistment at an air show in Lakeland, Fla., April 25, 2015. (Courtesy photo via Air Force) In summer 2023, Air Force Tech Sgt. Tameka Paschal-Vassell’s phone rang with an ...

The Air Force has long forbade anything but wedding ring-styled hand tattoos on its airmen and recruits, but the service is reevaluating that policy amid the toughest recruiting year since 1999. Maj.

The commander in charge of the Air Force’s recruiting efforts says the branch of service is "not nearly relatable enough to most of Generation Z," which he describes as "not patriotic." Maj. Gen. Ed ...

New York Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Franklin Angel has received a Blue Suit Award for being one of the Air Force’s top recruiters. The Blue Suit Award is an Operation Blue Suit annual award program ...

When Air Force recruiter Greg Butler arrived at a recent event in Springfield, Missouri, he found that the space reserved for his recruiting booth was right next to a display from a local gym. And it ...

Air Force recruiters are about to be hit with a pay cut even as the service struggles to get new airmen into the ranks and leadership cautions that recruitment may be a long-term problem for the ...

Before the coronavirus pandemic, Master Sgt. William Magill would rise from bed at 5 a.m., don his uniform, help feed and dress the kids and then take them on a long commute to school at Joint Base ...

Tech. Sgt. Jason Hamrick, an Air Force recruiter in Cincinnati, was found dead with a single gunshot to the head June 30. His wife and his wife's boyfriend, an airman at Dyess AFB in Texas, have been ...

Joshua Carl Harrod, 44, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a federal judge January 8, 2024 for enticement of a minor and making a false statement to a federal agency. (Facebook) A federal judge ...

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - An Air Force recruiter was sentenced on Friday to 27 years in prison for sexually assaulting women who went to his Houston-area recruiting station to ask about joining the ...