The Air Force is doing everything it can to lessen the stresses on its remotely piloted aircraft operators, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh told airmen at Creech AFB, Nev., according to a base release. “There are some things [about...

Djibouti-based Air Force rescue personnel last week plucked a two-man Saudi F-15S crew from the Red Sea after the pair ejected during a strike sortie over Yemen, according to the Saudi government and a press report. An HH-60G rescue helicopter...

Airmen with the 435th Air Ground Operations Wing at Ramstein AB, Germany, instructed Romanian airmen in airfield management practices and operations during Exercise Dacian Warhawk at Campia Turzii, Romania, according to a Ramstein release. “This event provided the baseline on...

The policy governing short-tour assignments at Kunsan AB, South Korea, has changed, allowing Active Duty military couples to serve simultaneously at the base on a case-by-case basis, announced officials. Under the old policy, if one spouse went to Kunsan on...

Lt. Col. Raymond Millero Jr., commander of the 79th Fighter Squadron at Shaw AFB, S.C., recently reached 3,000 flying hours in the F-16, becoming the 260th F-16 pilot worldwide to do so, according to a base release. Those hours equate...

More than 170 airmen and soldiers rehearsed standing up an aerial port as part of Exercise Eagle Flag 15-2 at JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., announced base officials. The one-week exercise, which concluded in mid-March, helped refine US Transportation Command’s Joint Task...

Joint Base Andrews, Md., has won the 2015 Air Force Installation Excellence Award, announced service officials on Monday. “This award is a testament to the seamless integration of our six mission partners and more than 80 tenant units,” said Col....

DARPA has launched an initiative to develop and demonstrate concepts for maintaining air superiority through novel architectures of interoperable manned and unmanned platforms, weapons, sensors, and mission systems, announced the agency on Monday. The vision of the System of Systems...

Lockheed Martin is purchasing the High Speed Wind Tunnel in Grand Prairie, Texas, one of the few wind tunnel facilities in the United States capable of generating test conditions at subsonic to supersonic speeds and at adjustable Mach numbers, announced...