US Air Force News

Col. Caroline Evernham, left, and Judine Heidicker unload the Royal Air Force Kirton in Lindsey sign from a 916th Air Refueling Wing KC-135 Monday afternoon.

Although the future of Scott Air Force Base in southern Illinois won't be in question for two more years, state and local officials are preparing a plan to keep the facility open.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Shannon Hutto will always consider Eddie a hero, regardless of the outcome of a public poll for the next American Hero Dogs.

The White House said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined the president Saturday at Andrews Air Force Base.

An Army team transfers the remains of Spc. Thomas P. Murach May 7 at Dover Air Force Base, Del.

Some of the most important work of the session is yet to be done. Complex end-of-session deadlines will mix with sleepless nights, but most of it will get done before the end of the day on Memorial Day, May 27.

The team, which includes local U.S. Air Force Capt. Colin Merrin, will become the first group of active-duty U.S. military to reach the notorious summit U.S. Air Force Capt.

An F-35 Lightning II instructor pilot with the 58th Fighter Squadron, Eglin Air Force Base conducts aerial refueling for certification at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., May 13.

A Dalton man is mourning the death of his soldier son who was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.

Airman 1st Class James Mason, 28th Civil Engineer Squadron, rides his motorcycle around Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., on Aug.

The first planeload of Copper River salmon from Cordova, Alaska, landed Friday morning at Sea-Tac Airport and the Alaska Airlines pilots carried a 40-pound king to waiting chefs.

The automatic budget cuts that grounded the Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds are taking a toll on performers, air show announcers, concessionaires, vendors and others who depend on air shows and the millions of spectators.

The lightweight Apple tablet has opened the door to more than $50 million in cost savings over the next 10 years, according to the military.

Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley announced his plan April 26 to step down June 21 as the Air Force's top civilian after serving for nearly five years.

A suicide bomber in a car targeted two vehicles carrying foreign forces in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Thursday killing at least six Afghan civilians, Afghan officials said.

U.S. military leaders are "angry" and "ashamed" over sexual assaults plaguing the armed forces, President Barack Obama said Thursday after ordering top Pentagon officials to "leave no stone unturned" in the effort to stop the abuse.

Col. Paul Baumann took the reins from Col. Christopher Mann during an assumption of command ceremony on Wednesday.

An unmanned Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this afternoon.

A spokesman says the British-made aerobatic T-67 Firefly trainer was on a routine flight early Thursday west of King Hussein Air College, a Royal Jordanian Air Force base in the border town of Mafraq, when it developed an unspecified "technical fault." The base is believed to house 3,000 Syrian army and police defectors and 200 U.S. troops ... (more)

A female soldier is groped inside a barracks, another in a base supply room, a third on a shooting range.