Eight recreational divers spent more than 24 hours floating in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Palau before they were rescued by a local fisherman, the US Coast Guard said.

107th Attack Wing leaders are betting a trailer outfitted with an $88,000 gaming system will help the New York Air Guard unit recruit new airmen in 2025. The simulator and trailer combination is modeled on a system the Air Force also uses for recruiting.

An FAA statement said Jeff Bezos’ rocket company had “met all safety, environmental and other licensing requirements” for its heavy-lift rocket, which is set up for its debut mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 36.

The Navy has pumped over $123 million into the clean-up of a World War II anti-submarine blimp hangar at the former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin in Southern California that was destroyed by fire a year ago.

Navy quarterback Blake Horvath read the play perfectly and turned it into the longest in school history, a 95-yard touchdown run in the Armed Forces Bowl. The score helped the Midshipmen rally to beat Oklahoma 21-20 to close out their season.

The suspect secretly took photos of young children in the community to turn them into AI-generated images, according to a prosecutor memorandum. Law enforcement found over 10,000 images of partially clothed children and hundreds of AI-generated pornographic images.

Thousands of Space Force guardians have traded out fitness tests for continuous tracking of their workouts. The two-year study expected to wrap up in 2025 has attracted about 7,500 guardians, nearly 80% of the force.

Thomas Lazzaro was reportedly struck by a stray round from a hunter and killed Dec. 22 as he drove on the Eglin Air Force Base range in Florida in what the sheriff’s office called a “tragic hunting accident.”

An ongoing legal fight with the Navy is behind the delay of a plan to turn a contaminated former airfield in Dallas into a neighborhood.

A new Air Force policy allows waivers to be granted in certain cases for asthma, hearing loss and food allergies.