Officials confirmed Saturday the body found at Andersen AFB, Guam, was that of missing Airman Alec Dye, a B-52H crew chief deployed from the 2nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Barksdale AFB, La. Dye went missing on Dec. 1 near Tarague...
Ashton Carter, formerly the No. 2 and No. 3-ranking official at the Pentagon, was named Friday by President Obama to succeed Chuck Hagel to become the 25th Secretary of Defense. At a White House ceremony, Obama praised Carter’s 30 years...
Accepting President Obama’s nomination to be Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter on Friday said he took the job because of his “regard for his leadership” and “the seriousness of the challenge.” He pledged “my most candid strategic advice and …...
Ashton Carter, 60, nominated Friday to be the new Secretary of Defense, has held three other jobs at the Pentagon over the last 30-plus years, having served as a policy assistant during the Clinton Administration, as the acquisition, technology, and...
About 800 fewer Active Duty airmen experienced some form of unwanted sexual contact in Fiscal 2014 than they did in 2012. However, reports of sexual assaults across the Defense Department are on the rise, according to new data released by...
The Air Force Weapons School recently introduced a newly developed training scenario in its curriculum to better prepare graduates to tackle finding and tracking mobile advanced SAM targets. The realistic training scenario is designed to better prepare graduates to find,...
F-22s from JB Pearl-Harbor, Hickam, Hawaii, and a C-17 loaded with everything needed to support the jets recently flew a rapid-deployment demonstration to Andersen AFB, Guam. “The ability to launch F-22s to a nontraditional location with a complement of additional...
Jessica Wright will step down from her position as undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness on March 31, 2015, the Pentagon announced last week. Wright, a retired Army major general and commander of the Pennsylvania National Guard, has served...
