MSgt. Josh Gavulic, a tactical air control party member assigned to the 17th Special Tactics Squadron at Fort Benning, Ga., was killed Feb. 21 during free fall proficiency training at Eloy, Ariz., according to a Feb. 26 Air Force release....
President Barack Obama has asked the Defense Department to “ensure it has adequate plans in place to accomplish an orderly withdrawal” from Afghanistan by the end of the year, noting it is “unlikely” Afghan President Hamid Karzai will sign a...
While the American public has increasingly grown restless about the war in Afghanistan, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said the US should tout its successes in Afghanistan rather than run away from them. Speaking Monday at...
Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is seeking feedback from service members on the Fiscal 2015 budget proposal, which he and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel outlined on Monday, according to a YouTube video posted on...
The US government sat on information that Russia likely breached the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty by testing a missile ranged to menace Europe, said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). Hiding information like this from NATO partners seriously undercuts the United States’...
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said he wants the House to vote on its version of a Fiscal 2015 defense authorization bill by early June in the hopes of avoiding an election year stalemate. With an...
The officer reduction in force board, originally scheduled for June 16 at the Air Force Personnel Center, has been rescheduled to October due to “legal limitations governing RIF boards,” according to a Pentagon release. With the delay, separations now will...
President Barack Obama has nominated Maj. Gen. Anthony Rock for appointment to the rank of lieutenant general and for assignment as Chief of the Office of the Defense Representative-Pakistan, at the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. Rock currently serves as...
Five members of the Kuwait Air Force embedded with the 17th Airlift Squadron at JB Charleston, S.C., in February, where they received training on C-17 operations and maintenance before delivering Kuwait’s first Globemaster III. The aircraft, which also transited through...
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