Trading size to maintain a quality force and staying focused on readiness and modernization likely remains the best combination of choices available to sustaining the Air Force—and the US military overall—as the world’s finest in fiscally challenging times, said Air...

CMSgt. James Hotaling has been selected as the Air National Guard’s next command chief, announced Air Force officials on Tuesday. Hotaling is succeeding CMSgt. Christopher Muncy, who retired in September after more than three years in that role. Hotaling has...

Total Force mobility airmen from units across the United States and in Europe are conducting a C-5 and C-17 airlift to deploy several Army Patriot missile defense batteries and hundreds of US personnel to Turkey this week to help secure...

Within a 13-day period in November, Air Force E-8C JSTARS ground-surveillance airplanes flew in support of five US combatant commanders overseeing vast geographic regions spread across the globe, announced officials who operate these extremely-high-in-demand intelligence assets. “Flying this many operational...

After several years of gradual increases, weapons strikes from Air Force remotely piloted aircraft rose sharply in Afghanistan in 2012, according to Air Forces Central’s year-end airpower statistics. Service-operated RPAs dropped 506 weapons on ground targets in Afghanistan last year,...

Construction work continues apace on two new dormitories at Cannon AFB, N.M., home of Air Force Special Operations Command’s 27th Special Operations Wing. Base officials broke ground on the buildings last August. They are designed to accommodate a total of...

The Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Airlift Wing in Louisville has a new Mobile Emergency Operations Center that will enhance the ability of the unit’s airmen to support civilian agencies following a catastrophe, according to a wing release. The MEOC...

The base cinema at Ellsworth AFB, S.D., is closing, along with movie halls across the country, as the film industry transitions to digital instead of 35-millimeter projection film, reports South Dakota’s Rapids City Journal. Upgrading the movie theater with new...