Special Operators and other Air Force service members get on the ground for push ups to honor MSgt. John Chapman. Chapman was awarded the Medal of Honor on August 22 and his name was added to the Air Force Memorial August 24.
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Many U.S. Air Force Academy graduates feel the mild response to the insurrection from the academy and its Association of Graduates fails to reflect the values central to the academy's mission, the authors of this commentary write.
Update: "Because of the MASSIVE backlash over this, we are now being allowed back into the senate building," one soldier told Military Times. "We’re going to make a big show of marching back into the building."
Air Force Capt. Taylor Bye landed her A-10C Thunderbolt II without working landing gear or cockpit canopy. Her courage and cool in the mid-flight crisis earned her the Air Combat Command’s Airmanship Award.
A U.S. Air Force instructor pilot, 25, and a pilot from the Japanese Air Self Defense Force, 24, were on a training flight from Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi to Tallahassee, Florida when their T-38 trainer jet crashed near Danley Field in Alabama.
Update on National Guard deployment to DC for Biden inauguration. It's now up to 21,000 troops, NGB head said during inauguration security briefing with VP Pence.
The seven airmen who died in a March 15 helicopter crash in Iraq belonged to three different units - the 38th Rescue Squadron at Moody AFB; the 106th Rescue Wing of the NY National Guard; and the Air Force Reserve's 308th Rescue Squadron at Patrick AFB:
“This is murder by incompetence,” said Air Force vet Sam Lerman, struggling Sunday to find a way out for an Afghan contractor who had guarded Americans and other NATO forces at Afghanistan’s Bagram air base for a decade.
Bad to the Bone: "Bomber Task Force missions to Europe demonstrate commitment to our allies and partners all while providing a clear deterrence message to any adversary,” said Gen. Jeff Harrigian, U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa commander.