During meetings with airmen in Hawaii last week, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh reiterated a theme to leadership and young enlisted members: allow airmen to take the initiative at the wing and squadron levels where the Air Force lives...

The Air Force last week released “Global Vigilance, Global Reach, Global Power for America,” a document articulating the service’s enduring core missions and how they coalesce into providing worldwide vigilance, reach, and power. The five missions are: air and space...

More than 6,200 Defense Department civilians may lose their jobs in Fiscal 2014 if sequestration continues unchanged and the Pentagon has to shed some $52 billion from its $526.6 billion budget request, reported Bloomberg, citing a pre-decisional, draft Pentagon budget...

The Air National Guard recognized its six 2013 Outstanding Airmen of the Year at a ceremony at JB Andrews, Md. Lt. Gen. Stanley Clarke, ANG director, praised these airmen for their accomplishments during the Aug. 14 “all call” meeting, according...

Airmen at Minot AFB, N.D., gathered with North Dakota’s congressional delegation and local civic leaders to celebrate the opening of the base’s new air traffic control tower and base operations building. The ribbon-cutting ceremony took place on Aug. 23, according...

More than 60 aircraft and 2,600 personnel from the United States, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea participated in the two-week Red Flag-Alaska air combat exercise. RF-A 13-3, the latest iteration of the Pacific Air Forces-sponsored training event, concluded...

p, .ExternalClass The Air Force is struggling to meet the demand for remotely piloted aircraft pilots, according to a new Brookings Institution report. The RPA pilot career field has skyrocketed from some 50 people in the 1990s to 1,300 today,...

The Minnesota Air National Guard’s 133rd Airlift Wing in St. Paul held its annual family day. “Family Day is our way of showing the families of our airmen we appreciate the support and sacrifices they make,” said Col. Jim Johnson,...

The Boeing-built X-48C blended-body-wing research aircraft last week went on display at the Air Force Flight Test Museum at Edwards AFB, Calif., according to a museum release. The aircraft is on loan to the museum while the Air Force Research...

Japan plans to operate the Global Hawk remotely piloted aircraft starting in Japan’s Fiscal 2015 to bolster its ability to monitor activities around its territory, reported Yomiuri Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper. The US ally intends to spend some $2 million...