The Defense Department is directing the return of masks for all personnel in areas with increasing COVID-19 cases following updated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks on July 28 issued a memo to all Defense Department personnel directing ...
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Frank Kendall arrived at the Pentagon and administratively swore in as the 26th Air Force Secretary on July 28, giving the department its first permanent civilian leader since January. The Senate confirmed Kendall two days earlier, following a drawn-out confirmation process that included holds from ...
The Senate confirmed Frank Kendall to be the 26th Secretary of the Air Force by voice vote July 26, nearly three months after he was first put forward as a nominee. Kendall, the former No. 3 official in the Pentagon in the Obama administration, will ...
Air Force Maj. Brian Liebenow arrived to a secret staging point at a former Soviet base in Uzbekistan on Oct. 6, 2001, for an intense mission that would last just over two months. There, as a member of the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron, he briefed ...
Once more, Airmen and Guardians will be able to carry over up to 120 days of leave from fiscal year 2021, acting Secretary of the Air Force John Roth announced July 23. The move, Roth wrote in a memo distributed to the major commands, is ...
As military operations in space move farther from the Earth, the commander of Space Operations Command believes Guardians joining the Space Force now may eventually need to enter orbit or transit through space to make quick decisions to protect American interests in space. The Space ...
The Senate Armed Services Committee voted to approve its markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2022, increasing the top line of President Joe Biden’s defense budget by $25 billion while seemingly nixing the possibility of a Space National Guard. The markup was approved ...
The Senate on July 22 confirmed Gina Ortiz Jones to be the next under secretary of the Air Force, giving the service a No. 2 civilian leader while the nominee to lead the service remains in limbo. Ortiz Jones, along with five other Defense Department ...
For the first time in more than a year, family and friends were able to gather in person July 22 to watch as loved ones graduated from Air Force Basic Military Training. Restrictions were still in place at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, to prevent ...
