The 61st Airlift Squadron at Little Rock AFB, Ark., received the last of its 14 C-130Js on June 20. Air Mobility Command boss Gen. Carlton Everhart ferried the aircraft from the Lockheed Martin facility in Marietta, Ga., according to a Lockheed release. The base, which is also home to the 41st Airlift Squadron, has 28 total C-130Js, one of the service’s largest fleets of Super Hercs.
Happy Birthday US Air Force: 78 Today
Sept. 18, 2025
Seventy-eight years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1947, Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first ever Secretary of the Air Force, and the Air Force officially became the first new military service since the Revolutionary War.