A top Air Force commander, Gen. Thomas Bussiere, announced his retirement Tuesday for “personal and family reasons.” “After much reflection and with a full heart, Barb and I have made a difficult ...

The Air Force has about 19,000 people in its delayed entry program, which allows potential recruits to wait up to four months before shipping to boot camp. By Jeff Schogol Published Sep 30, 2025 1:15 ...

Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink speaks at the 2025 Air, Space and Cyber Conference at National Harbor, Md. Credit: U.S. Air Force NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Air Force Secretary Troy Meink likened ...

The email arrived in Michelle Curran’s inbox at a most inconvenient time, shortly before she was to report to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico for her next assignment. Under almost any other ...

A former pilot with the Air Force Thunderbirds and NASA astronaut nominee from Fort Collins was sentenced to 12½ years in military prison by a military judge Sept. 24 after being found guilty of ...

The Department of the Air Force has launched a new initiative aimed at motivating airmen and guardians to maintain high standards of physical fitness. Here, guardians perform air squats at Peterson ...

WASHINGTON — L3Harris Technologies said it has successfully demonstrated a satellite-based radio system that allows military aircraft to tap commercial space broadband services such as SpaceX’s ...

Airmen with the 35th Fighter Wing complete a physical fitness assessment at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Aug. 14, 2025. (Senior Airman Erika Chapa/U.S. Air National Guard) The Air Force has announced ...

Federal officials are considering installing a radar missile-detection system in rural Southern Oregon. On Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced it would “set aside” almost 5,000 acres ...

Gen. Ken Wilsbach, then-Pacific Air Forces commander, returns from a flight at Kadena Air Base, Japan, April 17, 2023. Wilsbach had been slated for retirement but is now nominated to be the next Air ...

BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany's air force on Sunday morning sent two Eurofighters to track a Russian IL-20m military aircraft that had entered neutral airspace over the Baltic Sea, it said, ...

The U.S. Air Force launched a new “Culture of Fitness” initiative, altering the current physical fitness assessments by adding a 2-mile run and making the test biannual for all service members. At the ...