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  • AF Week in Photos

    This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.

  • Around the Air Force: Aug. 12

    On this look around the Air Force, the secretary of the Air Force and chief of staff of the Air Force discuss the budget and operations during the State of the Air Force; the B-1B Lancer, B-2 Spirit and B-52 Straotofortress make history in Guam; and U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa

  • Air Force releases criteria for basing new F-16 training squadrons

    The Air Force released basing criteria Aug. 11 that will be used to select candidate bases to establish additional permanent formal training units using F-16 Fighting Falcons from Hill Air Force Base, Utah.“As a former F-16 pilot and squadron commander at Hill, I know for many the F-16 has been

  • RPA pilots set to receive $35,000 annual bonus

    Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James announced an increase to the service’s remotely piloted aircraft pilot bonus Aug. 10 in a multi-pronged approach to increase RPA manning and incentivize RPA pilots within a community that has operated at surge capacity for more than 10 years.

  • AFSOUTH Airman recognized as best in ACC

    Air Combat Command awarded a member of the 12th Air Force (Air Forces Southern) the 2015 Force Support Senior Noncommissioned Officer of the Year award for the  Air Reserve Component.Senior Master Sgt. Leah Chavez, 12 AF (AFSOUTH)/A1 Contingency Plans & Operations Manager, received the award for her

  • CSAF letter to Airmen

    Attached is the first in a series of short papers I will share that outlines my thinking in key focus areas. You will find each in our Strategic Master Plan (SMP) and Air Force Future Operating Construct (AFFOC); and each nests nicely under SecAF’s priorities of: Taking Care of Airmen; Balancing

  • Around the Air Force: Aug. 9

    On this look around the Air Force, in reference to the Real ID Act, some forms of identification will no longer be accepted to gain entrance to Air Force facilities; Air Force ROTC cadets experience a special tactics obstacle course; and a B-52 Stratofortress crew completes a mission that took more

  • Colombian general acts as CFACC during annual PANAMAX exercise

    For the first time, a Colombian general led the simulated air war during U.S. Southern Command’s annual PANAMAX exercise July 29 through Aug. 4 at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.Colombian air force Brig. Gen. Sergio Andrés Garzón Vélez acted as the Combined Forces Air Component Commander for the