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January 9, 2021

Air Force veteran identified as Capitol rioter carrying zip ties on Senate floor

A retired lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserves was identified as one of the rioters who stormed the nation's Capitol Wednesday and proceeded to the Senate floor carrying zip ties as lawmakers fled.

January 9, 2021

Member of famed Tuskegee Airmen dies from coronavirus

Lumpkin Jr. served as an intelligence officer due to his poor eyesight.

January 4, 2021

Pentagon, Lockheed somehow build 123 new F-35s in 2020 amid pandemic

It is a vast expanse … an indoor warehouse in Fort Worth, Texas, that almost resembles a small city, filled with row after row of F-35 stealth fighter components and structures at various stages of construction.

December 30, 2020

B-52s fly over Persian Gulf as 'complex attacks' from Iran feared, US ready to thwart

Two American B-52 bombers flew a nonstop, round-trip, 30-plus-hour mission from the United States to the Middle East to send a fresh warning to Iran.

December 29, 2020

Florida man laid off by Disney starts making handcrafted flags in garage

After being laid off by Disney, a man turned his hobby of making hand-crafted wooden flags into a source of income.

December 22, 2020

Air Force inspector general report shows Blacks more likely investigated, disciplined

Black service members in the Air Force are far more likely to be investigated, arrested, face disciplinary actions and be discharged for misconduct, according to a new report that looked at racial disparities across the service.

December 17, 2020

How revolutionary force plate technology could save troops from injuries and slash defense spending

In a bid to solve the impasse and cut down on costs, the DoD is turning to an emerging new force plate and machine learning technology – from Sparta Science – to pinpoint potential problem points to prevent future maladies, zap the attrition rate and increase physical readiness.

December 15, 2020

Texas Airman makes wreaths from old military uniforms for veterans, their families

Staff Sergeant Nicole Pompei didn’t intend to start her own business this year.

December 15, 2020

Missile scare at US Air Force base in Germany after alert triggered false alarm

A U.S. Air Force base in Germany recently suffered a potential incoming missile scare after an alert about a launch in the European theater prompted loudspeaker warnings of an “aerial attack” and to “seek cover” -- before it was realized to be a training exercise, officials and reports say. 

November 29, 2020

Air Force arms classic B-1B bomber with hypersonic weapons

The U.S. Air Force’s decades-old, combat-tested B-1B Lancer aircraft has just taken a huge step toward developing an ability to fire hypersonic weapons in flight, as the Air Force has released images of the aircraft flying at Edwards Air Force Base in California with a missile loaded underneath the fuselage on an external pylon.