Airmen in Afghanistan are standing “yankee, go home” on its head by distributing clothes, school supplies, and toys under an adopt-a-village program orchestrated by the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing, Bagram AB, Afghanistan. A recent haul netted some 1,200 pounds of donations, most of which come from donors in America. “Hopefully programs like this can continue so more Afghan children will get to see the kindness in the hearts of the American people,” said SSgt. Matt Greene, deployed from Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
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.