The Air Force has come a long way in improving housing for airmen and their families, Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said Wednesday. “We will have built or renovated over 23,000 privatized homes by the end of this fiscal year,” he said in his address at the American Legion’s 92nd national convention in Milwaukee. Lt. Col. Jeff Glenn, Donley’s spokesman, told the Daily Report Wednesday that 1998 was the start date for counting the 23,000 homes. Donley said USAF’s cooperation with private housing developers has been “a quiet, but successful” partnership. “[T]hat has allowed us to leverage taxpayer dollars, providing thousands of new homes to airmen that would otherwise have come years later than they were needed and at higher cost,” he explained. Just last month, junior enlisted airmen moved into new homes at Barksdale AFB, La., that developer Pinnacle is providing. (Includes Barksdale photo caption by SrA. La’Shanette V. Garrett)
Air Force Conducts Test Launch of Minuteman III ICBM
May 21, 2025
The Air Force tested an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif,. at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time May. 21. The successful test saw the missile equipped with a single reentry vehicle travel more than 4,200 miles to strike a test site near Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall…