The United States will not conduct the Bright Star training exercise with the Egyptian military in September due to the escalating violence by Egyptian security forces against civilians, said President Obama on Thursday. “While we want to sustain our relationship...

Retired Gen. John W. Pauly, former commander in chief of US Air Forces in Europe, died on Aug. 7 in Colorado Springs, Colo., announced the Air Force on Thursday. He was 90. Pauly led USAFE from August 1978 to August...

Air Force Reserve Command delayed the transfer of 10 C-130J transports from Keesler AFB, Miss., to Pope Field, N.C., that is scheduled as part of the Air Force’s force structure adjustments next fiscal year. The C-130Js are assigned to AFRC’s...

Global proliferation of precision-strike capabilities may challenge the US military’s ability to project power overseas in coming decades, asserts Barry Watts, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. In a new CSBA report, Watts addresses how...

Members of the 818th Mobility Support Advisory Squadron at JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., traveled to Dakar, Senegal, to instruct Senegalese airmen on safety issues. The four air advisors met with 33 Senegalese airmen during the week-long mission, which concluded in early...

The Air Force dismantled Cold War-era SR-71 hangars at Beale AFB, Calif., according to base officials. “From a historic point of a view, it is sad to see them go, but from a mission standpoint, we can [now] support the...

A database storing information on US military and coalition aerial bombing campaigns in the past century is now publicly available, according to a release. Spearheaded by Lt. Col. Jenns Robertson, the Theater History of Operations Reports database, or THOR, is...

The first South Korean C-130J made its inaugural flight at Lockheed Martin’s production facility in Marietta, Ga., announced company officials. Aircraft No. 5730, one of four C-130Js that South Korea ordered in late 2010, flew on Aug. 14, states the...