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  1. Thinning the ranks: Not enough airmen voluntarily left the Air Force by the May 31 deadline, so 600 must be involuntarily separated from the service by the end of the fiscal year. Of that number, 250 have already been targeted as meeting 'mandatory' separation criteria.

    Prime ContentAF targets another 600 for cuts

    Not enough airmen have volunteered to leave this year, and now 1,700 are at risk of being forced out under a new round of date of separation rollbacks.

  1. Obama sparks new fight in seeking huge nuke reductions

  2. Senator presses Pentagon on Guantanamo feeding

  1. Military Entrance Processing Command chief removed from duty

  2. F-15s begin leaving Montana Guard base

  3. 2 killed in Colo. wildfire had AF connections

  4. House bill would let more vets get private care

  5. Afghan leader backs away from Taliban talks

  6. Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions

  7. 16 dead: Militants infiltrate U.N.'s Somalia office

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  1. Maine man gets 3 years for stealing VA benefits

    A Maine man has been sentenced to three years in prison for fraudulently obtaining veterans' disability benefits from the federal government.

    • Jun. 19, 2013

  2. Child welfare workers resign as probe into airman's daughter's death continues

    The Texas child welfare agency under investigation for its mishandling of a toddler's death last year has disciplined two employees after discovering one of them had 'an inappropriate relationship' with the child's father, an agency spokesman said Tuesday

    • Jun. 19, 2013
  3. A US Air Force CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, left, and an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter and an A-10 Thunderbolt II. The future of a long-stymied US Air Force effort to buy new combat search-and-rescue helicopters is one again uncertain as top-level generals are intensely debating the type of aircraft and which arm of the service is best suited to conduct this critical mission. DoD

    AF may use V-22s for combat rescue mission

    The future of a long-stymied Air Force effort to buy new combat search-and-rescue helicopters is once again uncertain as top-level generals are intensely debating the type of aircraft and which arm of the service is best suited to conduct this critical mi

    • Jun. 18, 2013
    • NEWS /
    This undated photo provided by Blue Rider Press/Penguin shows award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings. He died June 18 in a car accident in Los Angeles, his employer and family said. Blue Rider Press / Penguin via AP

    Journalist who took down Army four-star dies in car wreck

    Michael Hastings, whose stunning 2010 report for Rolling Stone led to the removal of Gen. Stanley McChrystal as head of coalition forces in Afghanistan, died in a fiery car crash Tuesday in Los Angeles, according to numerous media reports.

    • Jun. 18, 2013

  5. VA Gulf War panel members walk out to protest changes

    Three members of a Veterans Affairs Department advisory committee on Persian Gulf War illnesses walked out of a meeting in Washington, D.C., on Monday to protest planned changes to the board's makeup — alterations they say are designed to neuter the often outspoken panel.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
    • NEWS /

    Welsh talks Syria, readiness

    As Congress deliberates over how DoD funds should be appropriated, the military head of the Air Force laid out the case that his service still provides a benefit that other branches cannot match.

    • Jun. 18, 2013

  7. Spec Ops may need to be exempt from integrating women, SOCOM official says

    Special Operations Command may require special exemptions from the Pentagon's plan to open all military jobs to women by 2016, a top SOCOM general said Tuesday.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  8. Members of the 129th Rescue Wing from the California Air National Guard earn day-to-day credits toward early retirement for up to 90 days deployed within a fiscal year. Tech. Sgt. Dennis J. Henry Jr. / Air Force

    Retirement credits add up for some Guard, Reserve

    National Guard and Reserve airmen who have served nontraining active-duty tours over the past five years have been accumulating credits that can significantly reduce their eligibility age for retirement benefits, according to officials with the Air Force

    • Jun. 18, 2013
    • NEWS /

    AF resumes moves to Colorado

    Permanent change of station and temporary duty assignments to Peterson Air Force Base, Schriever Air Force Base, Cheyenne Mountain Air Station and the U.S. Air Force Academy have been restored, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced today.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  10. Marine Corps Capt. Paul Gates, commanding officer of Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, pauses during a dismounted patrol with Afghan National Civil Order Policemen during Operation California APril 28 in Kajaki district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Afghanistan officials will open a U.S.-backed office in the Gulf nation of Qatar as early as Tuesday to facilitate direct peace talks with the Taliban, according to three senior administration officials. Marine Corps

    U.S., Afghans, Taliban to begin peace talks in Qatar

    Afghanistan officials will open a U.S.-backed office in the Gulf nation of Qatar as early as Tuesday to facilitate direct peace talks with the Taliban, according to three senior administration officials.

    • Jun. 18, 2013

  11. U.S. may need to fill 'gaps' in Afghan forces after 2014

    The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the Afghan military may need some operational support beyond the planned end of combat operations there in late 2014.

    • Jun. 18, 2013

  12. Dorr: New UH-72 Lakotas could better protect missile sites

    An Army helicopter may be the solution to the Air Force's need for security at the nation's intercontinental ballistic missile sites.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  13. Gen. Larry Spencer Michael Pausic / Air Force

    Spencer: Every airman deserves dignity and respect

    While at Andrews Air Force Base a couple of weeks ago to recognize some of the airmen from the 11th Logistics Readiness Squadron for their contribution to the 'Airmen Powered by Innovation' campaign, I took the opportunity to speak to the squadron about s

    • Jun. 18, 2013

  14. Editorial: Let go of unwanted C-130s

    The all-but-obsolete C-130H is a symbol of the ridiculous situation lawmakers put Air Force leaders in. Those leaders, under intense pressure to slash $10.8 billion this year under sequestration, have cut thousands of airmen and grounded squadrons because they don’t have enough money for flying hours.

    • Jun. 18, 2013

  15. La. Guard's top enlisted adviser fired

    The Louisiana National Guard's highest officer has fired his top enlisted adviser for alleged sexual harassment.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  16. National Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander testifies June 18 on Capitol Hill before the House Intelligence Committee. J. Scott Applewhite / AP

    Army 4-star defends surveillance program

    The director of the National Security Agency said Tuesday the government's sweeping surveillance programs have foiled some 50 terrorist plots worldwide, including one directed at the New York Stock Exchange, in a forceful defense of spy operations that wa

    • Jun. 18, 2013

  17. Plan seeks to hire reservists, vets for border duties

    Reservists and veterans would be actively recruited for border security jobs, with incentives including student loan repayment and signing bonuses, under a bipartisan Senate plan unveiled Monday.

    • Jun. 18, 2013

  18. Afghan forces taking security lead nationwide

    Afghan forces have taken over the lead from the U.S.-led NATO coalition for security nationwide, President Hamid Karzai announced Tuesday in a significant milestone in the 12-year war.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
    • NEWS /

    Air Force removes six career fields from CJR list

    The Air Force has removed limits on how many first-term airmen can re-enlist for six career fields, while it has lowered the number of airmen who can re-enlist for an additional 17 career fields

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  20. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, talk to media during a news conference at the Pentagon on May 17. Women may be able to begin training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under broad plans Hagel is approving that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in the country's elite special operations forces, according to details of the plans submitted to Hagel that were obtained by the Associated Press. Carolyn Kaster / The Associated Press

    Military plans would put women in most combat jobs

    Women may be able to start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under plans set to be announced by the Pentagon that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in elite special operations forces.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  21. An Air Force honor guard team from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., participates in a burial ceremony. Funeral honors for military retirees have been downsized to a two-person Air Force honor team. 2nd Lt. Michael Gibson / Air Force

    Military funeral procession changes

    There's a change happening Air Force-wide in the mortuary affairs program, and most may not know about it until, well, it's too late.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
    • NEWS /
    Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visits with airmen June 17 at Minot Air Force base in Minot, N.D. Will Kincaid / AP

    Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman visits Minot AFB

    The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff reassured hundreds of airmen Monday that recent nuclear weapons missteps at their North Dakota base would be corrected, but he didn't elaborate on the 'failures of leadership' he blames for causing the problems.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  23. Wilma Rees, 90, of Arizona (right) and her twin sister, Amelia Kizer, 90, of Nebraska, members of the American Rosie the Riveter Association (ARRA), worked on B-17 bombers at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle during World War II. Members of ARRA toured a portion of the former GM Willow Run plant in Ypsilanti Township. The 5-million-square-foot plant was built by Henry Ford to make B-24 bombers for the military during World War II and is likely to be destroyed by GM's bankruptcy trust to make way for new development. James Fassinger / Detroit Free Press

    WWII riveters return one last time to bomber plant

    Rosie the Riveter returned to her factory, just a few months before it's likely to be demolished.

    • Jun. 17, 2013

  24. WikiLeaks trial witness: Troop email addresses could be used in cyberattacks

    A huge database of troop names and email addresses an Army private allegedly downloaded to a personal computer could be used by foreign adversaries to launch cyberattacks on service members, a government witness said Monday as the trial of Pfc.

    • Jun. 17, 2013

  25. 2 female pilots among six service members selected to be astronauts

    NASA has eight new astronauts — its first new batch in four years.

    • Jun. 17, 2013

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