The Air Force now is sending its officer trainees on field trips to help them absorb some of the service’s heritage, specifically the famed World War II Tuskegee Airmen, the Army Air Corps first black aviators. OTs from the Officer Training School at Maxwell AFB, Ala., recently visited the Robert Moton Field in Tuskegee, Ala., where they talked with retired Col. R.J. Lewis and saw some of the historic Tuskegee Airmen training and operating areas.
Happy Birthday US Air Force: 78 Today
Sept. 18, 2025
Seventy-eight years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1947, Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first ever Secretary of the Air Force, and the Air Force officially became the first new military service since the Revolutionary War.