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The Department of the Air Force was created with the signing of the National Security Act of 1947. The Air Force’s missions are broken down into Air and Space Superiority, Global Attack, Rapid Global Mobility, Precision Engagement, Information Superiority and Agile Combat Support.
There are approximately 310,000 Active Duty airmen currently serving across the globe with an additional 71,400 airmen serving in the Air Force Reserve.
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WASHINGTON — The Air Force is betting a large part of its future air warfare on a fleet of more than 1,000 autonomously operated drones, and later this spring, its top civilian leader plans to climb into one of those artificial intelligence-operated warplanes and let it take him airborne. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told senators on Tuesday at a
Assuming command of the 88th Air Base Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Col. Dustin Richards promised Tuesday to establish a “culture of trust and mutual respect,” one where base employees can reach their potential and “live their best life.” “For the men and women of the 88th Air Base Wing, the message is really just to continue delivering the
A commander of a medical quadron at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been fired from his role just three months into his duties. Lt. Col. Jimmy Stanley, commander of the 90th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron, was relieved of command April 5, the base said in a press release Tuesday. Col. Johnny Galbert, the 90th Missile Wing
A former Air National Guardsman has allegedly defected and joined the Russian army in its fight against Ukraine, according to the Rhode Island attorney general’s office. Wilmer Puello-Mota, 28, a former security forces technical sergeant with the Massachusetts Air National Guard, allegedly fled the country in response to a pending criminal case against him for possession of child pornography. Social
Air Force maintenance teams are pulling a decommissioned B-1B Lancer bomber out of the boneyard and plan to put it back into active-duty service to replace another Lancer that was damaged in a fire. The resurrected aircraft, nicknamed “Lancelot,” was retired to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, also known as
Air Force Materiel Command — the major Wright-Patterson Air Force Base-headquartered mission responsible for equipping the Air Force — revealed new details Thursday on how the Air Force’s planned reorganization will impact it. The changes will involve no significant job disruptions, a spokesman for the command said Thursday. “No significant change or disruption of jobs is planned,” the spokesman said
BALTIMORE — A tugboat pushing a fuel barge was the first vessel to use an alternate channel to bypass the wreckage of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, which had blocked traffic along the vital port’s main shipping channel. The barge supplying jet fuel to the Department of Defense left late Monday and was destined for Delaware’s Dover Air Force
The Air Force is still not flying Osprey aircraft in Japan despite getting the green light to lift a monthslong flight hold following a deadly crash off the country’s southern coast, but the Marine Corps has put its aircraft based there back in the skies. Rebecca Heyse, an Air Force Special Operations Command spokeswoman, told Military.com on Tuesday that none
Air Force officials quietly fired the commander of the 727th Air Mobility Squadron at RAF Mildenhall Air Base in the United Kingdom earlier this year, Military.com has learned, marking another in a string of leadership removals since the beginning of the year. Maj. Ligel Brown was relieved of command Jan. 25, but the leadership change was not publicized in a
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