The Air Force last week announced an expansive new ROTC scholarship available to older Cadets committed to commissioning, with the goal of recruiting and retaining more future Airmen in the program. The Brig. Gen. Charles A. McGee Leadership Award, named after the legendary Tuskegee Airman, will ...
The Department of the Air Force needs to do a better job of identifying, recruiting, and mentoring Hispanic officers—especially at its very highest ranks, according to a new report and Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall. Speaking at a conference sponsored by the Air Force’s Hispanic ...
The Department of the Air Force offered up new, “aspirational” goals for diversity in its officer applicant pool earlier this month. Now, Secretary Frank Kendall has given the department’s commissioning sources until Sept. 30 to develop initiatives to try to meet those goals.
An Air Force UH-1N helicopter will land near Cramton Auditorium on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., on April 30, fulfilling one pilot’s dream and perhaps sparking a few more. That’s the hope of 1st Lt. Dontae Bell, a pilot with the 1st ...
The Department of the Air Force is tackling the issue of systemic racism in the same way as it does many others: by standing up a task force. The Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, created June 9, will look at how racial, ethnic, and other ...