Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman created the CSAF Professional Reading Program in 1996 to develop a common frame of reference among Airmen, including officers, the enlisted force, and civilians. Each Air Force Chief of Staff since then has enhanced and continued...
History
The Pentagon’s longest-running humanitarian mission hit a new milestone as Pacific Air Forces kicked off the 70th annual Operation Christmas Drop on Dec. 5. The festive mission involved Airmen from the 36th Wing, 515th Air Mobility Operations Wing, and 374th Airlift Wing gathering, packing, and ...
For 32 years, Mason Mathews Patrick (West Point, 1886) was a brilliant though somewhat obscure member of the Army Corps of Engineers.
Al Maggini, who completed 35 bombing missions as a B-17 navigator with the Eighth Air Force in World War II, turned 106 recently.
Internationally known and respected Army Gen. Colin Powell died Oct. 18 at age 84 of complications from COVID-19. Powell served a 35-year Army career capped by duties as National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under ...
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Then-1st Lt. Heather Penney's mission on 9/11 was to bring any airliner that didn't respond to commands down, causing as few casualties as possible on the ground. For Penney, an F-16 fighter pilot assigned to the District of Columbia Air National Guard's 121st Fighter Squadron, ...
Six weeks after the United States pulled out of Bagram Air Base, it’s home in Afghanistan for nearly 20 years, the Afghan government collapsed. Taliban fighters seized control of Kabul, causing panic in the streets and at Hamid Karzai International...
Retired Lt. Gen. Robert D. Springer, a Vietnam veteran who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, and who served as the inaugural director of the Air Force Memorial Foundation, shepherding the project through its controversial early years, died Aug. 19 at the age of 88.
