In June 2026, airpower experts from the U.S. Air Force, seven allied air forces, and industry convened for a three-day wargame designed to stress notional 2036 USAF combat forces in a series of concurrent crises: a Russian assault against NATO...
Personnel
New Enlisted Recruiting Commander By Todd South The Air Force appointed a colonel to head enlisted recruiting, more than 18 months after combining officer and enlisted recruiting into a single organization. Col. Lacresha A. Merkle took command of Air Force...
SMSgt. Michael J. Falleroni Senior Master Sergeant Falleroni helped stand up a battlecab for USAFE’s Air Operations Center, developing real-time, top-secret intelligence for the CFACC and five general officers during Operation Midnight Hammer. His actions enabled the largest B-2 mission...
Members of the Alaska ANG’s 176th Wing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, rescued the pilot of a single-engine floatplane that crashed about 25 miles south of Anchorage. An HH-60W Jolly Green II with the 210th Rescue Squadron, carrying two pararescuemen...
Courage in the face of danger. On March 4, 1976, President Gerald Ford presented the Medal of Honor to the parents of a remarkable hero. Lance Sijan was born in Milwaukee in 1942. He was big, brash, handsome, and self-confident....
Summer is a unique time at the U.S. Air Force Academy for cadets to focus almost entirely on military training, unconstrained by competing academic, sports, and extracurricular priorities.
The Airman’s imperative to defend from small uninhabited aerial vehicles. The air base has become a central target set. Small drones have become one of the defining air threats of modern warfare, representing a structural change in the character of...
An Air Force captain has created a mobile app any service member can use to get “actionable guidance” on improving or maintaining their physical fitness.
The Department of the Air Force is giving Airman and Guardians until the end of the year to meet new requirements for ensuring they achieve a proper protective mask seal, part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s crackdown on unauthorized facial hair.
