US Air Force News

The mother of Robby the C-130 plans to make a visit to a Jacksonville school, but the principal doesn't need to worry about making room for a four-engine airplane.

An air force officer killed by an artillery shell which exploded at Waiouru Military Camp on Thursday was a devoted family man and an "awesome all-round Kiwi bloke", his brother-in-law says.

Military helicopters winched dozens of people to safety and emergency workers in inflatable boats rescued scores more as floods swamped homes and roads Friday in northern England's picturesque Lake District.

LITTLE ROCK - Arkansas' two U.S. senators say the Senate has approved a bill that would send millions of dollars to the state for construction projects at Little Rock Air Force Base and the Pine Bluff Arsenal.

A worker at Tinker Air Force Base has been charged with embezzling more than $20,000 from the sale of scrap metal through a recycling program at the Oklahoma City base.

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses U.S. servicemembers at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Nov.

The Defence Force has released the name of the air force officer killed at Waiouru Military Camp in the central North Island on Thursday.

The Small Business Administration failed to check if companies were eligible for the no-bid contracts for veterans with service-related injuries, allowing, for example, a contracting employee at a military base in Tampa, Fla., to improperly funnel a $900,000 Air Force contract to his wife's firm.

U.S. President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan after Obama walks down from the Air Force One upon arrival at the Osan U.S. Air Force Base in Osan, 48 kilometers south of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has tapped a former senior defense official to lead a broad Pentagon review of the circumstances surrounding the Fort Hood shootings, The Associated Press has learned.

The rights of a Guantanamo detainee facing trial in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa were not violated when the military took away his uniformed lawyers, a judge ruled Wednesday.

The U.S. Senate has approved sending $44.4 million to Massachusetts to upgrade military facilities at Otis Air Force Base and Hanscom Air Force Base.

Several Air Force F-16 fighter squadrons based in South Carolina are in line for four-month deployments to Iraq in the coming year.

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An F-16 fighter jet from Shaw Air Force Base made a sudden landing in Myrtle Beach Monday afternoon after reporting engine trouble.

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday lifted a lower court's injunction against a $1.2 billion Air Force maintenance contract with Boeing Co that was protested by Alabama Aircraft Industries.

NASA plans next month to launch a space telescope that will scan the heavens for the infrared glow of celestial objects never seen because they are too dim, dusty or distant, scientists said Tuesday.

A federal appeals court has reversed a ruling that overturned Boeing Co.'s $1.1 billion contract for maintenance of an Air Force refueling tanker jet.

Family and friends in the tiny Hancock County town of Duncan have laid to rest TereseAnn Marie Lynch, who was shot to death last week in Des Moines, allegedly by her estranged husband.

Dozens of top-ranking military officers are still on the public payroll after retiring from their jobs with hefty pensions.