The Marine Corps is reviewing the results of an operational readiness inspection of the first F-35B unit and will likely decide in the next few days whether to declare the jet “operational.” According to a statement from USMC spokesman Maj....

Turkey has requested consultations with NATO’s North Atlantic Council now that it is participating in military action against ISIS elements on its border with Syria and is opening up several of its air bases for use by the US and...

An Iowa Air National Guardsman found unconscious while swimming in Guam July 25 has been identified as SrA. Drew Bellairs, who was deployed to Guam from the 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, Iowa. Bellairs was transported to Guam...

Air Forces Central Command activated the 22nd Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron on July 24 at al Udeid AB, Qatar, to provide KC-135 tanker support to operations over Iraq and Syria. “This is a constantly evolving war fight out here and...

Special operations airmen from Kadena AB, Japan, executed a parachute jump onto Wake Island in the Western Pacific to clear the island’s runway following a typhoon earlier this month. “Special tactics operators and MC-130 aircrew provide a rapid response to...

New Jersey Air National Guard F-16s recently participated in multinational Exercise Thracian Star hosted by the Bulgarian air force at Graf Ignatievo AB, Bulgaria. “We came over here primarily to do air-to-air training in basic fighting maneuvers and tactical intercepts,”...

A joint force of 106 airmen, 51 soldiers, and three civilians from the Defense Logistics Agency deployed to JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., for exercise Turbo Distribution 15-7, a US Transportation Command event designed to assess the Joint Task Force-Port Opening concept...

The Air Force announced the 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2015. They include? SMSgt. Harold Terrance Jr., Pacific Air Forces; MSgt. Joseph Bogdan, Air Mobility Command; MSgt. Timothy Mason, Air Education and Training Command; TSgt. Tamara Acfalle, Air...