4:45 p.m. CDT Little Rock Air Force Base says its main gate and visitors’ center have re-opened to normal traffic after being closed following a shooting. The main gate into the sprawling base was closed for more than seven hours,…
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U.S. Air Force introduces new policy preventing discharge of transgender
The Air Force announced a policy Thursday that makes it more difficult to discharge transgender service men and women, offering greater protections against discrimination based on gender identity. The move comes two months after the Army made a similar policy,…
Airman, who was assigned female at birth, serves as man in Afghanistan
This Op-Doc video profiles a transgender airman named Logan Ireland, who recently completed a deployment serving as male, the gender he knows himself to be. Remarkably, after telling his leaders and some peers that his sex was assigned female at…
SpaceX approved for national security space missions
Lieutenant General Samuel Greaves, Commander of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) and Air ForceProgram Executive Officer for Space, has announced the certification of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation’s (SpaceX) Falcon 9 Launch System for national security space…
Spain to host U.S. rapid reaction military force
In order to combat the crises in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, Spain has agreed to host a U.S. rapid reaction military force. The BBC reported that the agreement between Spain and the United States will allow 2,200 U.S.…
Successful launch of Air Force’s secret space plane
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla., May 20, 2015 — A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket successfully launched the Air Force Space Command 5 (AFSPC-5) satellite for the U.S. Air Force at 11:05 a.m. EDT today from Space Launch…
