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  • Oliver Ray Crawford: fierce, effective Air Force advocate dies at 94

    A lawyer who spent 13 years in the Air Force Reserves, Oliver Ray Crawford was a charter member of the Air Force Association. In 1989, he was named the organization’s Man of the Year and went on to serve as AFA president for two years in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Following his tenure as president, Crawford served two additional years as chair of the AFA board.
  • ACE Solo Flight Program

    ACE Solo Flight Program concludes for 2019 at historic Tuskegee Airmen airfield

    The A.C.E. Solo Flight Program, which began in 2018, is a unique, STEM--science, technology, engineering and math--focused summer program designed to motivate and mentor minorities and women to pursue aerospace careers, with an emphasis on Air Force opportunities.
  • U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Zachary Moore, 315th Training Squadron instructor, suggests a conceivable threat to the flight path of Airman 1st Class James Bullock’s, 315th TRS student, F-35 Lightning II aircraft prop in Di Tommaso Hall on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, July 10, 2019. Critical thinking skills are paired with hands-on maneuvers to help the intelligence students identify, analyze and recommend counter tactics in order to offer future intelligence training for air crews in the operational Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Abbey Rieves/Released)

    Goodfellow AFB embraces National Defense Strategy

    Falling under the Air Education and Training Command, Goodfellow AFB builds a more ready, resilient and rapidly innovative force by modernizing learning inside its 250,000 square feet of secure training facilities.
  • River Region Rocket Day 2019

    Air Force Junior ROTC, CAP cadets launch more than 200 rockets over River Region

    To commemorate the launch of Apollo 11, the Air Force’s Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, the city of Montgomery, Civil Air Patrol and the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, which is located in Huntsville, Alabama, joined forces as they sent more than 200 model rockets above River Front Stadium in Montgomery, Alabama.

  • Around the Air Force: Three Decades of B-2 flight / Special Duty Tour Length Changes / GI Bill Benefits Update

    In this edition of Around the Air Force, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, commemorates three decades of B-2 flight, Air Force releases changes to special duty tour length and announces GI Bill education benefits updates.
  • Air Force releases technical sergeant/19E6 promotion cycle statistics

    Air Force releases technical sergeant/19E6 promotion cycle statistics

    Of the 9,467 selected, 18% had promote now recommendations, 26% had must promote recommendations and 56 % had promote recommendations.
  • Muralist, painter, street artist and 315th Airlift Wing Reservist, Staff Sgt. Corban Lundborg, combat photojournalist with the 4th Combat Camera Squadron at JB Charleston, South Carolina, used his creative talent and public affairs training to win 2018 Air Force Photographer of the Year and first place in the 2018 Military Visual Awards portrait category.

    Artist to Airman: Street artist to art of war

    Muralist, painter, street artist and 315th Airlift Wing Reservist, Staff Sgt. Corban Lundborg, combat photojournalist with the 4th Combat Camera Squadron at Joint Base Charleston, used his creative talent and public affairs training to win 2018 Air Force Photographer of the Year and first place in the 2018 Military Visual Awards portrait category.
  • Final AC-130U Spooky returns from combat deployment

    Final AC-130U Spooky returns from combat deployment

    While still on alert to respond to contingencies as needed for the next few months, the Spooky is being replaced downrange by the AC-130J Ghostrider, the most lethal and innovative gunship in the world.
  • Department of Veterans Affairs Women's Health Trasition Training. (Courtesy graphic)

    DoD partners with VA, implements Women’s Health Transition Training Program

    The Department of Veterans Affairs partnered with the Department of Defense to implement the first Women’s Health Transition Training. The program is an in-person and virtual course designed to provide a female perspective to active duty, Reserve and National Guard servicewomen who plan to transition to civilian or Reserve/National Guard status.
  • Joint Warfighting Forum

    ACC commander speaks at Joint Warfighting Forum

    Air Force Gen. Mike Holmes delivered remarks to the audience of military and industry partners about the future of armed conflict and the importance of integrated systems of command and control.
  • Yancy Mailes, Air Force Materiel Command historian, provides background information on the AFMC We Need initiative during cadre training at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, July 15. More than 150 AFMC headquarters and center augmentees attended the training to prepare for the implementation of Phase II activities of the AFMC We Need initiative.

    AFMC conducts focus groups across enterprise

    The AFMC We Need enterprise-wide initiative, launched in late June 2019, seeks inputs and recommendations from AFMC civilian and military Airmen that can help posture the command to best support the National Defense Strategy today and in the decades to come.
  • OTS prepares for the arrival of “Godzilla” class

    OTS prepares for arrival of “Godzilla” class

    What is being dubbed the “Godzilla” class, OTS Class 19-07 will push the school to its maximum capacity by tipping the scales with the expected arrival of 800 officer trainees in mid-July.
  • Changes to the Post-9/11 GI Bill will be taking effect Aug. 1, 2011 and Oct. 1, 2011. (U.S. Air Force graphic/Senior Airman Damon L. Kasberg)

    DoD delays Post 9/11 GI Bill changes

    The implementation has been delayed until January 12, 2020, giving long-serving members more time to transfer their education benefits to spouses or dependents.
  • Air Force officials selected 9,467 staff sergeants for promotion to technical sergeant of the 29,328 eligible in the 19E6 promotion cycle. The promotion list will post July 18, 2019. (U.S. Air Force graphic by Kat Bailey)

    Air Force selects 9,467 in 19E6/technical sergeant promotion cycle

    Commanders will receive notice of their selects from their senior rater's agent starting July 11.
  • Photo of Gen. Mike Holmes, commander of Air Combat Command, discussing future 24th/25th Air Force merger at a town hall meeting.

    ACC commander holds NAF integration town hall

    Air Combat Command announced the plans for this reorganization in April of this year as a way to better integrate cyber effects, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations, electronic warfare operations and information operations. The synergy between cyber, ISR, EW and IO will increase unity of effort across these capabilities, resulting in new and improved options for combatant commanders.
  • Andrea Tosolini, the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex's 1,200th hire of its '1200 in 12' hiring initiative was sworn in June 24, 2019. The Florida native and 21-year Air Force veteran said getting the job was like winning the lottery. The Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex announced its initiative during a press conference Aug. 15, 2018. The task at hand was to hire 1,200 new workers within 12 months, or by the end of fiscal 2019. At the time 7,200 personnel worked for the complex, providing maintenance and repair for several aircraft and components, as well as F-15 engineering. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ed Aspera)

    ‘1200 in 12’ initiative succeeds as final new hire pledges oath

    The Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex announced its initiative during a press conference Aug. 15, 2018. The task at hand was to hire 1,200 new workers within 12 months, or by the end of fiscal 2019. At the time, 7,200 personnel worked for the complex, providing maintenance and repair for several aircraft and components, as well as the F-15 engineering.
  • Students write code to program robots with instruction from instructor Patricia Bodley during a LEGACY (Leadership Experience Growing Apprenticeships Committed to Youth) program camp June 26, 2019, at the Freeport Center in Clearfield, Utah. LEGACY is an Air Force program aimed at building interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through hands-on activities while showing how STEM applies to the world. (U.S. Air Force photo by Todd Cromar)

    LEGACY youth program builds interest in STEM careers

    The Leadership Experience Growing Apprenticeships Committed to Youth, or LEGACY, program is an Air Force program aimed at building interest in science, technology, engineering and math through summer craftsman camps and paid summer apprenticeships while showing how STEM applies to the world around us.
  • Members of the 175th Wing, Maryland Air National Guard, hosted a group students from the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks Science, Technology, Engineering and Math program, July 3, 2019, at Martin State Airport, Middle River, Md. The students, ranging from 9th – 12th grade, were introduced to the A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft and simulator as well as Electro-Optical and Infrared (EOIR) sensors. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Enjoli Saunders)

    Maryland National Guard partners with Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks STEM Program

    The students, ranging from 9th – 12th grade, were introduced to the A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft and simulator as well as Electro-Optical and Infrared sensors.
  • Air Force gathers innovators for Tyndall rebuild

    Air Force gathers innovators for Tyndall AFB rebuild

    To that end, members of the Tyndall Program Management Office, along with Air Force experts, industry and community leaders participated in an AFWERX-sponsored workshop June 25-26 in Las Vegas to rebuild the installation as a “base of the future.”
  • IG Graphic

    IG office earns Air Force award

    This Air Force-level award recognizes an outstanding Commander’s Inspection Program that goes above and beyond the day-to-day mission requirements. NASIC’s CCIP was chosen as the best of any direct reporting unit or field operating agency.
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A United States Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refuels an F-22 Raptor over northern Iraq, Nov. 6, 2019. U.S. Central Command operations deter adversaries and demonstrate support for allies and partners in the region. (Video by Staff Sgt. Daniel Snider)
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Although the Silver Star is the third-highest military medal, it's not given often. Today, TSgt Cody Smith was the 49th Special Tactics Airman to receive this medal since Sept. 11th, 2001. Read more of TSgt Smith's amazing story: https://www.airforcespecialtactics.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2024815/special-tactics-airman-battled-through-injuries-awarded-silver-star/fbclid/IwAR2LZWwx1VHdTnQe39rIEBOuJS_0JvMQBBGt7I-E6zsxxn-Lx9387yu43Bc/ Cannon Air Force Base Air Force Special Operations Command United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
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Tune in as our Air Force musicians along with other military musicians are awarded the National Medal of Arts.
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