• The entrance to McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base was locked down Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, after reports were received of shots being fired at the facility in Alcoa, Tenn. (Michael Patrick/AP)
    Lockdown ends at Tennessee Air Guard base; resulted from ‘misunderstanding’

    A lockdown ended at Tennessee’s McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base on Wednesday afternoon and everyone was safe after a report of a suspicious person who appeared to be armed turned out to be a misunderstanding, officials said.

    Steve Megargee, The Associated Press
    5 days ago
  • A retired Air Force chief master sergeant wears his N.H. Air Guard hat at the annual retiree day event on June 21, 2017, at Pease Air National Guard Base, N.H. (Staff Sgt. Kayla Rorick/Air National Guard)
    Air Force announces health study at Pease Air National Guard Base amid concerns about cancer

    Officials at an Air National Guard base in New Hampshire announced that the Air Force will conduct a study amid concerns about exposure to carcinogens at the base.

    The Associated Press
    5 days ago
  • The Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System of the 21st Space Wing. (David Salanitri / Air Force)
    POLL: What should members of Space Force be called?

    “It’s going to be really important that we get this right."

    J.D. Simkins
    5 days ago
  • Pfc. Ali J. Alkazahg, right, poses with Trevor Reilly, left, July 7, 2017, while hiking in the Eagles Nest Wilderness of the Dillon Ranger District in Colorado. (Trevor Reilly via AP)
    Marine sentenced to 3 years of confinement for trying to bring unlawful firearms on Air Force base

    Ali Al-kazahg's sentence includes a bad conduct discharge, reduction in rank from private first class to private and three years of confinement.

    Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, The Associated Press
    5 days ago
  • Senior Airman Justin Painter, 451st Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron non-destructive inspection journeyman, cranks out pushups in a fitness challenge competition inside Camp Losano gym at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, in August 2011. Air Force Materiel Command will start beta-testing a new system that allows airmen to take
    Here’s how your new ‘no-fail’ PT test could work

    Air Force Materiel Command plans to start beta-testing the new PT system next week.

    Stephen Losey
    6 days ago
  • A small coastal town in Australia ravaged by fires received a most-welcome delivery. (Getty)
    Royal Australian Navy delivers 800 gallons of ale to fire-ravaged town in hall-of-fame beer run

    The delivery of the ice cold kegs arrived just in time.

    J.D. Simkins
    January 13
  • A U.S. Marine with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, assigned to the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command (SPMAGTF-CR-CC) 19.2, stands post during the reinforcement of the Baghdad Embassy Compound in Iraq, Jan. 4, 2020. (Sgt. Kyle C. Talbot/Marine Corps)
    Mail delivery to military bases in Iraq temporarily suspended to clear backlog

    Starting today, the Pentagon has temporarily suspended deliveries to Baghdad International Airport to clear a backlog of mail flowing into that country.

    Howard Altman
    January 13
  • The Very Rev. Randolph Hollerith, dean of the Washington National Cathedral, left, and the Right Rev. Carl Wright, bishop suffragan for the armed ofrces and federal ministries in the Episcopal Church, center, bless the official Bible of the newly created Space Force during a service at the cathedral on Jan. 12. Maj. Gen. Steven Schaick, the Air Force's chief of chaplains, is holding the Bible on the right. The cathedral said in a social media post that the Bible will be used to swear in all Space Force commanders, drawing a strong objection from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. (Danielle Thomas/Washington National Cathedral)
    Space Force Bible blessing spurs protest

    The Military Religious Freedom Foundation objected to the ceremony as inappropriate and sectarian.

    Stephen Losey
    January 13
  • An F-16 fighter jet assigned to the 64th Aggressor Squadron sits on the flight line at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Oct. 28, 2019. In order to gain more capacity, the Air Force has begun contracting with defense companies for adversary air services. (Senior Airman Miranda A. Loera/U.S. Air Force)
    ‘Red Air’ providers prep for a big year of war games

    Last October, the Air Force chose seven companies to provide adversary air services to more than 20 bases. But what's happening now?

    Valerie Insinna
    January 13
  • Two F-15C Eagles from the 44th Fighter Squadron refuel with a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 909th Air Refueling Squadron Jan. 10 during exercise WestPac Rumrunner out of Kadena Air Base, Japan. Rumrunner represents an evolution in the capabilities of 18th Wing assets to work with joint partners. (Senior Airman Matthew Seefeldt/Air Force)
    Air Force’s 18th Wing conducts WestPac Rumrunner exercise with Navy, Army and Marine Corps partners

    The exercise, crafted by the 18th Wing, is intended to bolster joint interoperability and push airmen to employ continuous airpower using tactics stemming from the Pacific Air Force’s agile combat employment concept of operations, known as ACE.

    Diana Stancy Correll
    January 13
  • A1C Xavier Leaphart, shown in this photo from his Facebook page standing in front of an A-10 Warthog, was found dead alongside another airman, Airman 1st Class Aziess Whitehurst, in a dorm room at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, on Jan. 9. (Facebook)
    Air Force IDs airmen found dead in Spangdahlem dorm; no word on cause of death

    Both airmen had only been in uniform a little more than a year.

    Stephen Losey
    January 13
  • Paratroopers secure a helicopter landing zone on July 20, 2019, in Kandahar. An IED killed two paratroopers in the province on Jan. 11, 2020. (Maj. Thomas Cieslak/Army)
    Soldiers killed by bomb blast in Afghanistan identified

    The Pentagon has identified two U.S. soldiers killed in Kandahar province on Saturday.

    Kyle Rempfer
    January 12
  • In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks with reporters at an event in Madison, Wis. (Scott Bauer/AP)
    Governor approves Wisconsin Guard sex assault ombudsman

    Gov. Tony Evers on Friday approved a member of the Georgia National Guard to serve as the Wisconsin National Guard’s new sexual misconduct ombudsman.

    The Associated Press
    January 12
  • Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 3rd Class Sarah Atiyyat shows off tattoos in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ryan McFarlane/Navy)
    An inked culture: Sailors discuss the Navy’s longstanding tattoo tradition

    Sailors adorning their bodies with tattoos is a well-established Navy tradition

    J.D. Simkins
    January 12
  • This Dec. 10, 2018, file photo, shows the launch of the U.S. military's land-based Aegis missile defense testing system, that later intercepted an intermediate range ballistic missile, from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. (Mark Wright/Missile Defense Agency via AP)
    Hawaii Air National Guard to create Space Force squadron

    The Hawaii Air National Guard will start selecting candidates in April for one of four space control squadrons in the country in the Air National Guard, military officials said.

    The Associated Press
    January 12
  • An Associated Press style guide hero has stepped forward. (Getty)
    Marine vet wants ‘Veteran’ capitalized — it’s ‘a title and we earned it’

    We now have the Associated Press style guide hero we never knew we needed.

    J.D. Simkins
    January 11
  • A U.S. helicopter flies over the site of a suicide bomb that struck a NATO convoy in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 2, 2017. (AP)
    Two US troops die in combat in Afghanistan

    Two U.S. service members were killed and another two were wounded in action Saturday in Afghanistan.

    Kyle Rempfer
    January 11
  • A patient undergoes a blood test for HIV inside a mobile health care clinic. (Denis Farrell/AP)
    Ruling barring discharge of HIV-positive airmen upheld for now

    A federal appeals court has upheld an injunction barring the Trump administration from discharging two Air Force members who are HIV-positive.

    Denise Lavoie, The Associated Press
    January 11
  • Second Lt. Saleha Jabeen speaks at her commissioning Dec. 18 about her journey to become the Air Force's first female Muslim chaplain. (Tech. Sgt. Armando Schwier-Morales/Air Force)
    Airman becomes the service’s first female Muslim chaplain candidate

    “This is a big day not just for Muslims, but for persons of all faiths,” the Air Force chief of chaplains said.

    Stephen Losey
    January 10
  • This March 27, 2008, file aerial photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. (Charles Dharapak/AP)
    US tried, failed to take out Iranian Quds leader in Yemen

    The officials said a military airstrike targeted Abdul Reza Shahla’i, a high-ranking commander in Iran's Islamic Republican Guard Corps but the mission was not successful. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss a classified mission.

    Lolita BaldorandRobert Burns, The Associated Press
    January 10