Col. Bernard Fisher, the first person awarded the Air Force-designed Medal of Honor, died Aug. 16 in Idaho at the age of 87, reported the Idaho Press-Tribune. President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Fisher the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest...

Six airmen from the 22nd Special Tactics Squadron at JB Lewis-McChord, Wash., recently were presented a total of eight medals, including one Silver Star, for their efforts in combat in Afghanistan. TSgt. Matthew McKenna, a combat controller, was awarded the...

The Pentagon pushed back Tuesday on the idea of mission creep in Iraq, saying the US air strikes that helped Iraqi and Kurdish forces reclaim the Mosul Dam from Islamic extremists were entirely within the two missions President Obama gave...

RAND Corporation intends to contact nearly 580,000 service members as part of a military workplace survey that is “unprecedented in its scale,” according to an Aug. 18 release. The study, which is being conducted independently from DOD, is designed to...

Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center, visited SpaceX recently to talk about the certification process, which will allow the company to compete for military and intelligence satellite launches, and to receive an update on...

As part of a new policy aimed at making job performance the primary factor in career advancement, Air Force leaders on Tuesday announced significant changes to the role advanced education plays in officers’ promotion. As of Dec. 1, an advanced...

Changing the type of jet fuel the Air Force uses for its aircraft has lowered the price by two cents a gallon. That doesn’t sound like much, but when that is applied to the billions of gallons consumed annually, the...

Gen. Philip Breedlove, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, said NATO is looking to increase air policing and infantry exercises in Poland and the Baltic region and is bolstering its naval presence to the Black Sea in response to continued Russian...