As schools come back into session for the fall, drilling Guardsmen and Reservists will take up Air Force JROTC instructor duty for the first time ever. The change required a change in law and more than a year of work to update Pentagon policies, but ...
Personnel
As the Air Force prepares the first six editions of its Air Task Force deployment concept, the head of the Air Force Culture and Language Center is pitching an idea that he believes will help ATFs with a key element of projecting airpower overseas: a ...
The Air Force will flood Airmen and aircraft into the Indo-Pacific next summer for a major exercise that will run for nearly two weeks and coincide with the multinational Talisman Sabre exercise, Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said last week.
The Space Force isn’t quite ready to take full responsibility for recruiting its own Guardians yet, but the service is preparing a detachment within the Air Force Recruiting Service to build a strategy for doing so, Chief Master Sergeant of the Space Force John F. ...
The U.S. Air Force rushed a squadron of advanced F-22 Raptor fighters to the Middle East to deter Iran from attacking Israel earlier this month. The deployment was a demonstration of the service’s ability to rapidly send military might to a global hotspot. But Air ...
Aspiring Airmen and Guardians at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, are now required to carry a training version of a rifle throughout boot camp—a practice reinstated after more than a decade to foster a “warfighter mindset.”
Aerial porters, also known as “port dawgs,” played a key role moving vital fighter cargo into position for the massive Bamboo Eagle exercise held earlier this month.
The top civilian in charge of Air Force and Space Force personnel matters wants to make moving between permanent assignments less stressful for Airmen, Guardians, and their families, and he wants to do it fast.
Language Enabled Airmen play a key role building partnerships abroad, but there are too few to meet the surge for high-demand languages such as Japanese and Ukrainian.
