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The Defense Department got a reprieve from having to absorb steep spending cuts for the remainder of the fiscal year with the House’s vote late Tuesday night US East Coast time to delay budget sequestration from kicking in by two...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced that the fourth phase would begin in the transition of responsibility for Afghanistan’s security from NATO troops to Afghan security forces. “The Afghan people, as well as their American and ISAF partners, should take pride...

Gen. Edward Rice, head of Air Education and Training Command, selected CMSgt. Gerardo Tapia to be the command’s next senior enlisted leader, replacing CMSgt. James Cody. Tapia, currently command chief for 12th Air Force at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., is slated...

The Air Force last month opened its new Nuclear Security Tactics Training Center on the grounds of Camp Guernsey, Wyo., north of F.E. Warren Air Force Base, which is near Cheyenne. The $4.2 million facility offers 14,500 square feet of...

Retired Army Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, who led coalition troops liberating Kuwait from Iraqi forces during the 1991 Gulf War, died in Tampa, Fla., on Dec. 27 due to complications from pneumonia. He was 78. Schwarzkopf “stood tall for the country...

Lockheed Martin last week received $4.8 billion in undefinitized modifications to the previously awarded advance acquisition contract supporting the F-35 strike fighter’s sixth low-rate initial production lot for 31 aircraft. The first agreement provides $3.678 billion for the procurement of...

Last month, for the first time since late 2001, the 16th Special Operations Squadron had all of its airmen and AC-130H gunships home from combat, according to unit officials. The squadron’s last deployed AC-130H touched down at Cannon AFB, N.M.,...

Members of the 603rd Air Control Squadron at Aviano AB, Italy, in January will conclude the unit’s final deployment before the squadron’s planned inactivation in the spring. These airmen have been serving since July as part of the 71st Expeditionary...