WASHINGTON — Working to reinvigorate its nuclear force after years of missteps and scandal, the Air Force is putting a four-star general in charge for the first time in the post-Cold War era. His mission: Restore institutional muscle and assert…
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Former Air National Guard Col. pleads guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud
Former Air National Guard Col. Gerard J. Mangis admitted that he was part of a conspiracy with a civilian contractor to defraud the Air Force while he was in a leadership position at the 171st Air Refueling Wing in Findlay,…
Air Force F-22 Raptors’s are now just high-priced escorts
JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — Screaming through the air along southern Virginia’s coast, the Air Force’s F-22 Raptor routinely puts on a dazzling show of loops, dives and combat maneuvers designed to bedevil and defeat opponents before they ever know…
Hill AFB activates their first F-35 fighter squadron
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AFNS) — The jets won’t arrive for another few months, but Hill Air Force Base activated its first F-35 Lightning II fighter squadron during a ceremony here July 17. The 34th Fighter Squadron — affectionately…
Former Air Force One pilot for LBJ dies in Texas at 90
GATESVILLE, Texas (AP) — A military pilot who served as an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson and flew Air Force One has died in Texas. Retired Brig. Gen. James “Jim” Cross died Saturday in Gatesville. He was 90. Bill…
Investigators begin looking over area of aircraft collision
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) — Federal investigators and local authorities have been combing through a wide swath of rural, sparsely populated land as they try to determine what caused an F-16 fighter jet to slam into a small plane over…
