The Space Force has selected it second tranche of interservice transfers, the service announced Sept. 30. All told, 603 Soldiers, 49 Sailors, and 18 Marines will be transferring during fiscal 2022.
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Five hundred and eighty service members died by suicide in 2020, the Pentagon announced Sept. 30, when the Defense Department released its annual suicide report. Those 580 deaths mark the most the DOD has recorded in at least five years, with the Active-duty component accounting ...
As the Nov. 2 deadline for members of the Air Force and Space Force to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 approaches, the percentage of vaccinated service members in the department has jumped significantly, the latest data show. In a Sept. 28 update, the Department of ...
The U.S. military is at an inflection point, and if it fails to adapt to the current threat environment, it very well could lose the next fight. And while new platforms like the B-21 will play a critical role in competing, deterring, and winning in ...
Air Force leaders have spoken extensively over the past few years about their desire to empower Airmen to be multi-capable, training them through Agile Combat Employment exercises to operate in small groups in austere locations, using broader skillsets to do whatever is necessary. What exactly ...
The Air Force’s top officer-and-spouse duo shared a personal reason they take family readiness to heart in a town hall talk on the final afternoon of AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference. Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. and ...
Telework will be the default arrangement for at least half of Air Force Materiel Command's headquarters personnel from now on, commander Gen. Arnold W. Bunch Jr. told reporters at AFA's Air, Space & Cyber Conference. The command demonstrated it could carry out its mission working ...
Undersecretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones emphasized the need for a diverse and inclusive Space Force and Air Force to confront adversaries. “We need talent as diverse as the opportunities and challenges we face as a country,” Ortiz Jones said.
The Air Force’s pilot production numbers stayed relatively steady from fiscal 2019 to 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. said, an encouraging sign that the service’s efforts to speed up that pipeline are working. That progress could be ...
