A compendium of facts and figures about the Air & Space Forces Association.
History
Dick Cheney, who died Nov. 3 at 84, is best remembered by most Americans as among the most powerful Vice Presidents in history, a consummate Washington insider who had previously served in the Nixon administration, was Chief of Staff for President Gerald Ford, a Congressman ...
America's Air Force today is smaller and older than it was in my day, but what worries me more than size or age is just how ready we are to fly, fight, and win in a future war.
Retired Col. Charles B. “Chuck” DeBellevue, an Air Force combat ace from the Vietnam War, has joined a new fight to see America’s highest decoration for valor awarded to Maj. Bob Lodge—whose ingenuity has been credited for helping to turn...
Lt. Col George E. Hardy, last combat pilot from among the famed Tuskegee Airmen, died Sept. 25 at the age of 100. He was a combat pilot veteran of WWII, Korea and Vietnam.
Retired Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein and former Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson share leadership lessons from air combat to the halls of Congress.
Retired Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman and Brig. Gen. Ross C. Detwiler, former Misty FACs, reflected on their time flying high-risk missions over Vietnam during a recent Heritage Foundation event hosted at the Joint Base Andrews Air Show.
Seventy-eight years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1947, Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first ever Secretary of the Air Force, and the Air Force officially became the first new military service since the Revolutionary War.
Joint Base Andrews opened its flightline this month to thousands of civilians, exposing a normally restricted airbase that regularly hosts the president and foreign dignitaries to a curious public eager to see current and historic military aircraft up close and in action.