Air Force Reserve Command will be establishing F-35 Joint Strike Fighter units at NAS JRB Forth Worth, Tex., and Homestead ARB, Fla.—with more expected in the future. So said AFRC boss Lt. Gen. John Bradley at AFA’s Air & Space Conference Monday afternoon.
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.