The long slide of readiness in the Air Force’s combat forces is only going to get worse, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said Wednesday. Currently, full mission ready rates are hovering near 40 percent. However, if the Defense Department...
With New START reductions now law and cost pressures mounting, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said a renewed debate on the cost of the nuclear triad may be coming. “Nuclear deterrence strategy is something we should be thinking and...
In his first comments to the press since returning from his visit to China in September, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said he learned a great deal touring Chinese air bases and seeing some of the People’s Liberation Army...
Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, the former chief of the Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response branch, was acquitted of a sexual assault charge on Nov. 12. A seven-member jury, made up of five men and two women, deliberated for...
Pacific Air Forces has directed two teams to support humanitarian operations in the Philippines, following the destructive path of Typhoon Haiyan on the island nation. Maj. Jillian Torango, PACAF spokeswoman, told the Daily Report a four-member advance team from the...
The New York Air National Guard’s 174th Attack Wing in Syracuse on Wednesday asked the Air Force for air support in locating one of the wing’s MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft that crashed on Tuesday in Lake Ontario during a...
The Air Force will select 1,000 staff sergeants, technical sergeants, and master sergeants to serve in a variety of special assignment duties this month, announced CMSAF James Cody in the November Roll Call. The airmen were nominated from their major...
The number of suicides across the Defense Department has dropped by more than 22 percent this year, reported the Associated Press. As of Oct. 27, there have been 245 suicides by Active Duty service members, compared to 316 this time...