The Air Force on July 12 announced the 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2021. An Air Force selection board considered 35 nominees representing each of the major commands, direct reporting units, field operating agencies, and Headquarters Air Force. The winning 12 were selected ...
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Amid a wild housing market characterized by surging demand, rising prices, and abbreviated timelines, military service members making a permanent change of station this spring and summer are struggling to find affordable off-base housing. At the same time, Basic Allowance for Housing rates aren't keeping ...
Battlefield deaths from terrorist attacks in the vast, ungoverned region of Africa known as the Sahel have forced France to cut its military presence in half and ink a special operations deal with the U.S. at the Pentagon on July 9. In the face of ...
Looters were left to enter and take what remained of Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan after U.S. forces withdrew July 1 without fanfare or an official announcement. As American forces vacated Bagram, so, too, did close air support to the Afghan forces fighting the Taliban. In ...
The Pentagon's independent review commission on sexual assault in the military released its report July 2, making 82 recommendations that Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III indicated he would support “wherever possible with adjustments made to ensure effective implementation.”
Some 60 space-related units and mission sets remain outside the purview of the Space Force, but that will begin to change this year, Lt. Gen. Nina M. Armagno told Air Force Magazine on July 1 on the sidelines of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies’s ...
The nomination of Frank Kendall to serve as President Joe Biden’s Air Force Secretary is being held by three senators who have declined to publicly state the reason for their hold, Air Force Magazine has learned. A legislative aide confirmed that the three senators holding ...
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