Less than 24 hours ahead of a funding deadline that would have shut the government down at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, lawmakers approved a bill giving themselves another week to figure out how to fund the government through September. According...

JB Langley-Eustis, Va. The Air Force is dealing with a readiness crisis that leaders say impacts the service’s ability to conduct the “high-end” fight, but it isn’t evenly spread across all of aircraft communities. The F-22s with the 1st Fighter...

JB Langley-Eustis, Va. The increasing involvement of Air National Guard and Reserve pilots into Active Duty flying units has been a “shock absorber” of the growing pilot crisis and enabled USAF to keep some wings healthier than others. Col. Peter...

JB Langley-Eustis, Va. F-22s are flying daily in support of anti-ISIS operations in Iraq and Syria, carrying weapons and also keeping a close eye on what Syrian air defenses are doing. Col. Peter Fesler, commander of the 1st Fighter Wing...

Twelve F-15C Eagles landed in Bulgaria April 26 as part of a theater security package. The package, including 300 airmen from the Louisiana and Florida Air National Guard and the 12 aircraft from the 122nd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, arrived at...

Airmen and F-16s from the 555th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, based out of Aviano AB, Italy, recently deployed to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. The 555th EFS is taking its turn in the “continuous rotational presence” of...

The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, in Albuquerque, N.M., is raising funds to refurbish two Cold War-era aircraft, an F-105D Thunderchief and an A-7 Corsair II. The projects are part of Operation Preservation, the museum’s effort to “repaint...