An Air National Guard member who subdued a gunman following a 2023 police shooting received the Air Force Sergeants Association’s Pitsenbarger Award.

Two American airmen used a rope to rescue a snowboarder trapped in a hole at a Japanese snow resort last month, according to the 35th Fighter Wing.

An LC-130 Hercules “ski-bird” flew a heart attack victim from Antarctica to New Zealand for medical treatment, Pacific Air Forces said.

Air Force Gen. Randall Reed told a subpanel of the Senate Armed Services Committee that his command is ready to resume such transports if Northern Command orders them as part of a mass deportation effort by the Department of Homeland Security.

The family of a teenager who died after a wall collapsed on him at Robins Air Force Base filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government Monday.

The Department of the Air Force has tagged an isolated Pacific island as a test site for landing rockets capable of delivering tons of cargo anywhere on the planet at lightning speed.

A beloved 30-year-old husband and father who served with the Air Force in his home state of Alaska has died about a year after being diagnosed with a brain tumor, military officials said.

RAF Lakenheath is being prepared as a potential deployment site for nuclear bombs, a leading atomic policy research group said.

The course provides the opportunity for pilots of the Air Combat Command single-ship demonstration teams to practice flying in dissimilar aircraft formations before the air show season begins.

Almost 100 Air Force Academy cadets have admitted to cheating or tolerating it during a weekly knowledge test, typically required for freshmen.

A jury found Latona Mae Lambert guilty of failing to report child abuse on April 17, 2024, after two of her employees admitted to verbally and physically abusing toddlers in their care. The judge who sentenced Lambert said he will suggest the probation office terminate her sentence after one year.

More than 60 high school students staged a walkout at Kadena Air Base to protest Pentagon policies affecting diversity initiatives, the third such demonstration at a Defense Department school since Feb. 11.

The Air Force’s newest aircraft, a crop-duster style plane modified to perform armed overwatch and intelligence gathering for special operators, will be known as the Skyraider II.

A KC-135 Stratotanker made a precautionary landing Wednesday at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa, according to a local media report.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner is urging U.S. Transportation Command to take immediate action over “failures” in pickup and delivery of household goods for hundreds of relocating military families under a sweeping overhaul of how items are shipped and stored.

The advantage that the U.S. had for decades in being able to “sense the enemy before they sense us” has eroded with the proliferation of modern technologies among great powers and non-state actors, the leader of Marine Forces Special Operations Command told lawmakers.

Introduced in 1991 and mandatory for outgoing military members since 2011, the Transition Assistance Program, or TAP, has become an invaluable resource for veterans leaving active-duty service and re-entering the civilian workforce.

Authorities evacuated a high school at the home of the 18th Wing on Tuesday morning following a report of a roofing sealant leak that turned out to be a false alarm.

Airman Biron Teel-Scott, 27, of Bordentown, N.J., was identified Sunday as the airmen killed in the incident at about 2 a.m. local time at Kirtland. Teel-Scott was assigned to Kirtland’s 377th Security Forces Squadron.