Bruce D. Callander

The need to defend air bases was made painfully clear at Hickam Field in December 1941. Yet even now we continue to park aircraft in the open, often wingtip-to-wingtip, all over the country and have essentially no way of providing terminal defense against air attack.

America's Air Force today is smaller and older than it was in my day, but what worries me more than size or age is just how ready we are to fly, fight, and win in a future war.

In the schools around Eglin AFB, Fla., Leo Murphy has created a regional aviation hotbed and a pipelin

AFA’s 2007 National Teacher of the Year brought the world of aerospace to students in Kansas.

Their lineage goes back a long way, and they play a vital role in today’s Air Force.

What has been lost with the demise of wipers, oilers, cleaners, and supernumeraries?

AFA's Teacher of the Year, Susan Rippe, has made her aerospace program the envy of the region.

Because of advances in aeromedical evacuation, most American troops now survive their combat wounds.

The Air Force is producing sufficient numbers, but gaps remain.

Early Air Force leaders wanted an unadorned dress uniform, but things turned out a bit differently.

Patrick A. Welsh is the Aerospace Education Foundation’s National Teacher of the Year.

Some 800,000 volunteers at 16,000 observation posts scanned the sky for hostile aircraft.

New officers leave USAF’s Air and Space Basic Course as dedicated airpower advocates.

USAF has ditched the “one-size-fits-all” way of grooming members for their careers.

In the summer of 1955, the Air Force Academy opened its doors to its first group of cadets.