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.
July 21, 2021, marked the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Ostfriesland, a former German battleship, by aerial bombardment from a brigade led by Brig. Gen. William Mitchell in a demonstration of the superiority of airpower. To commemorate the occasion, Air Force Magazine is ...
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Connecting the Dots We can’t see all of the dots. … We have an inability to see everything. … We as U.S. Cyber Command or the National Security Agency may see what is occurring outside of the United States, but...
Hugh Merle Elmendorf, after whom USAF named an Alaskan air base.
