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McConnell AFB, Kan., is the preferred location for the first Active Duty-led KC-46A main operating base, announced Air Force officials on Wednesday. Further, Altus AFB, Okla., is the preferred place to host the KC-46A formal training unit, while Pease AGS,...

After relocating to Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., to avoid severe storms, six E-3 AWACs airplanes and two Navy E-6Bs returned home to Tinker AFB, Okla. The aircraft, carrying crew members from the 552nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron and the 72nd Security Forces...

Airmen on Wednesday launched an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., over the Pacific Ocean in one of the periodic operational flight tests meant to ensure the performance and reliability of the Minuteman fleet. “The operational test launch...

The House Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces panel, in its mark-up of the Pentagon’s Fiscal 2014 budget request, provides funding for the missile defense strategy announced by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in March to bolster US defenses against ballistic missile...

The Defense Department needs more analysis to determine the most appropriate mix of cyber operators across its ranks, stated the House Armed Services Committee’s intelligence, emerging threats, and capabilities panel in its mark-up of the President’s Fiscal 2014 defense spending...

Budget sequestration will have a “devastating” impact on US efforts to combat the illicit drug trade in Latin America, particularly cocaine trafficking, said Rear Adm. Charles Michel, director of the Joint Interagency Task Force South, on Wednesday. Prior to the...

A declining number of assets available for interdiction will likely mean less cocaine shipments intercepted this year in Central and South America, said Rear Adm. Charles Michel, Joint Interagency Task Force South director, on Wednesday. Briefing reporters in Washington, D.C.,...

Nearly 200 former Vietnam War POWs and their families are scheduled to arrive on Thursday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the POWs’ homecoming and the historic White House dinner...