Three airmen from the 93rd Air Refueling Squadron at Fairchild AFB, Wash., lost their lives in last week’s crash of a KC-135 tanker near Chon-Aryk, Kyrgyzstan, announced Fairchild officials. Killed in the May 3 mishap were: Capt. Victoria A. Pinckney,...
The fourth and final mission of an X-51A Waverider test vehicle last week set the record for the longest ever air-breathing hypersonic flight, announced Air Force Research Lab officials. The May 1 flight over the Pacific Ocean was “a full...
During a joint press briefing in the Pentagon last week, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his British counterpart Philip Hammond reaffirmed that the irrefutable use of chemical weapons by the regime of Bashar al Assad in Syria’s civil war would...
A military court last week sentenced SSgt. Emily Allen, a former military training instructor, to three months in jail for having sex with a recruit, reported the San Antonio Express-News. The judge also gave her 30 days of hard labor...
The Air Force’s three components continued to meet their respective recruiting goals through the end of March, the halfway point for Fiscal 2013, according to the Defense Department’s newest recruiting statistics. The service’s Active Duty component brought in 13,989 accessions...
Steve Butler, Air Force Materiel Command’s executive director since September 2008, is stepping down, effective June 30, and will retire from the Air Force after some 35 years of service, announced command officials. Replacing Butler as AFMC’s senior civilian at...
An Air Force-led contingent of US military medical personnel partnered with the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan, Belize, to provide medical care to local residents as part of a larger training exercise, announced exercise officials. The 13-day event, which concluded...
A C-17 crew from JB Lewis-McChord, Wash., evacuated an ailing person from McMurdo Station, Antarctica, according to Pacific Air Forces officials. The late April mission took just 60 hours from the time the C-17 departed McChord until the aircraft delivered...
