Lt. Col. Morris “Moose” Fontenot Jr. was kill Aug. 27 when his F-15C crashed in western Virginia, officials announced. Fontenot was the full-time inspector general for the 104th Fighter Wing at Barnes ANGB, Mass. “We all continue to keep the...

Lower defense budgets and Active Duty Air Force reductions will mean a greater reliance on the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said. As Air Force leaders conduct a mission-by-mission analysis of what...

Army Gen. Joseph Votel assumed command of US Special Operations Command from Adm. William McRaven during an Aug. 28 ceremony in MacDill AFB, Fla. McRaven, who led the command since August 2011, is retiring from service after 37 years. He...

SrA. Shabree N. Heasell, a geospatial intelligence analyst? with the 603rd Air and Space Operations Center at Ramstein AB, Germany, is one of the Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2014. As a tactics and training analyst,...

The F-35A training program at Luke AFB, Ariz., hit the century mark this week, completing the 100th sortie of an Air Force Lightning II. The benchmark sortie was flown on Aug. 26 by the 62st Fighter Squadron, which is part...

Air Force Special Operations Command boss Lt. Gen. Brad Heithold outlined his priorities for his air commandos during a recent offsite in which he also emphasized the importance of the joint special operations mission. The key priorities are “providing combat...

The National Museum of the US Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, recently started restoring the 200-foot tall Titan 4B rocket, acquired from Lockheed Martin in 2005. “This is the largest artifact we have ever restored,” said Greg Hassler, a...

Seven missileers from two other bases are operating at Minot AFB, N.D., while their spots are being filled by seven missile operations airmen from Minot’s 91st Operations Group. The crew swaps are part of a plan to use Minot as...

With the help of an instructor pilot from Air Forces South, the Dominican Republic has essentially eliminated the number of illegal drug trafficking flights over its skies. “The US investment in the Sovereign Skies Program has yielded impressive results, a...