An F-16 assigned to the 20th Fighter Wing at Shaw AFB, S.C., collided with a Cessna 150 around 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, approximately 11 miles north of Charleston, Air Combat Command spokesman Capt. A.J. Schrag told Air Force Magazine. Maj....
The President’s strategy to defeat ISIS demonstrates “a disturbing degree of self-delusion,” said Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday. “It’s right, but ultimately irrelevant, to point out, as the President did, that we have conducted...
In a tense and often heated debate with Pentagon leaders, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) went to bat for pilots frustrated at the lack ordnance being dropped in the air campaign against ISIS terrorists in Iraq...
In an effort to counter Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain’s sharp criticism of the Administration’s air campaign in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter pointed to the recent advances in northern Syria by the Kurdish...
Three months in?to the train and equip mission in Syria, the US is working to “screen and vet” about 7,000 volunteers, but only about 60 fighters are currently being trained, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told members of the Senate Armed...
Despite an unrelenting pace of activations and deployments for the last 14 years, the Air Force Reserve is “not … burned out,” Air Force Reserve Command boss Lt. Gen. J.J. Jackson said Tuesday. “Seventy-five percent of our people joined since...
The Air Force will submit its program objective memoranda—its proposed five-year plan—to the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the end of this month, and it may include some buybacks of people and capability, Air Force Reserve chief Lt....
Cyber and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance specialists are not on the Air Force Reserve’s “critical specialties” list this year, principally because “our recruiters have done an awesome job” at finding people for those slots, Air Force Reserve Chief Lt. Gen....
Exercise Trident Juncture this fall will be a major NATO effort to validate concepts in its rapid reaction force, but the Alliance also will expand future exercises to practice rapid response and securing air superiority in a crisis, a senior...
Active Duty, Air National Guard, and Air Force Reserve airmen from across the Air Force came together at Little Rock AFB, Ark., recently for the Green Flag 15-07 large-force air mobility exercise, during which they supported some 3,400 soldiers. Assembled...