Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that took nearly 3,000 lives in New York City, Arlington, Va., and Shanksville, Pa. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen will host a private remembrance...

The United States has had many successes in the war on terror over the last decade. Osama bin Laden is dead; al Qaeda has been weakened. And, the Taliban no longer has the same momentum. However, as the nation commemorates...

Retired Maj. Gen. Sloan Gill, Air Force Reserve chief from November 1982 to October 1986, died late last month at age 81. He succumbed on Aug. 22 to complications of pulmonary fibrosis while in a hospital in Thousand Oaks, Calif.,...

A vehicle operations supervisor with the 5th Logistics Readiness Squadron at Minot AFB, N.D., TSgt. Bradley A. Williams is one of the Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2011. Serving with an Army medium truck detachment on...

The 91st Missile Wing at Minot AFB, N.D., underwent the base’s first on-site nuclear arms inspection under the New START agreement. Given 24 hours notice, the base hosted 10 Russian inspectors on a verification tour of the wing’s Minuteman III...

The United States remains “clear-eyed” about China’s growing military capabilities, but China’s overall rise is more likely to boost American creativity and ingenuity than lead to the United States’ demise, said Vice President Joe Biden. “I remain convinced that a...

Gen. Raymond Odierno became the 38th Army Chief of Staff during a ceremony at JB Myer-Henderson Hall, Va. Odierno, who was the last commander of US Joint Forces Command, replaced Gen. Martin Dempsey, who is transitioning to his new role...

CMSgt. Michael Reinert, the Air Force’s last piston-engine flight engineer, retired this week from the Missouri Air National Guard’s 139th Airlift Wing at Rosecrans ANG Base. Reinert joined the service in 1970 and embarked on Operation Creek Party—the Air Guard’s...

The Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, Ga., is slated to receive one of the Air Force's recently retired RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 10 remotely piloted aircraft. Museum officials intend to put this aircraft in an elevated display in the Century of Flight Hangar. This Global Hawk, aircraft #2011, flew 357 combat sorties for a total of 7,074.4 combat hours, more combat sorties and hours than any other Global Hawk so far. Its last flight was in May when it returned to Beale AFB, Calif., from Southwest Asia. Plans are to bring the Global Hawk on a C-5 transport to Robins Air Force Base, which is adjacent to the museum. The Museum of Aviation is the second museum to obtain a Global Hawk, behind the National Museum of US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. (Museum of Aviation release)