Headlines – August 30, 2017
News North Korea fires missile over Japan in aggressive test – North Korea carried out one of its most provocative missile tests in recent years early Aug. 29, hurling a ballistic missile directly over...
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USS Kearsage, USS Oak Hill to support Hurricane Harvey relief
Navy photograph by PO3 Nathan T. Beard The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) transits the Atlantic Ocean. Kearsarge is underway conducting Atlantic operations. Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces...
View ArticleNews Briefs – September 1, 2017
U.S. shoots down medium-range ballistic missile in Hawaii test The U.S. military has shot down a medium range ballistic missile during a test off Hawaii. The Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai...
View ArticleHeadlines – September 1, 2017
News How will a continuing resolution hurt the military, McCain, Reed ask Mattis – Senate Armed Services Committee leaders John McCain, R-Ariz., and Jack Reed, D-R.I., are asking Defense Secretary...
View ArticleArizona Air National Guard F-16 crashes
Iraqi student pilot confirmed dead after F-16 crash A pilot was killed when an F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed Sept. 5, 2017, 20 miles northwest of Safford, Ariz. An Iraqi student pilot conducting a...
View ArticleNews Briefs – September 6, 2017
Boeing boosted by ruling throwing out European Union claim of state aid Boeing notched a key victory in a years-long legal case against its European rival, Airbus, after an international body rejected...
View ArticleHeadlines – September 6, 2017
News Trump pledges new weapon sales for Japan, South Korea – In the wake of North Korea’s sixth nuclear weapons test, U.S. President Donald Trump pledged Sept. 5 to increase weapon sales to Japan and...
View ArticleTwo A-10s crash on Nevada Test and Training Range
Two U.S. Air Force A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft assigned to the 57th Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., crashed on the Nevada Test and Training Range Sept. 6, 2017, at approximately 8 p.m. Both...
View ArticleNews Briefs – September 8, 2017
U.S. says drone strike kills 3 al-Shabab extremists in Somalia A U.S. military drone strike has killed three members of the al-Shabab extremist group in Somalia, the U.S. Africa Command said Sept. 6....
View ArticleHeadlines – September 8, 2017
News Explosion at Bagram Airfield injures multiple personnel – An explosion outside an entry control point at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan Sept. 6 has resulted in multiple casualties, U.S. Forces...
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Nation grieves with 9/11 survivors, Trump tells Pentagon victims’ families
DOD photograph by Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brigitte N. Brantley From left: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, First Lady Melania Trump and...
View ArticleNews Briefs – September 11, 2017
Air Force pilot fatally injured in crash on Nevada range A U.S. Air Force pilot has died of injuries suffered in an aircraft crash at a training range about 100 miles northwest of Nellis Air Force Base...
View ArticleHeadlines – September 11, 2017
News Air Force pilot killed during training near Nellis Air Force Base – A pilot was killed in a crash during a training flight at the Nevada Test and Training Range Tuesday, officials at Nellis Air...
View ArticleNews Briefs – September 13, 2017
Sen. Reed wants Congress to authorize military base closings U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., wants Congress to authorize a new round of military base closings. The Rhode Island Democrat filed an amendment...
View ArticleHeadlines – September 13, 2017
News Navy’s nuclear fleet shipyards in bad shape, report finds – Despite the Navy’s plans to improve its public shipyards, the four facilities and their equipment remain in “poor condition,” featuring...
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Cassini spacecraft ends historic exploration of Saturn
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute image Saturn’s active, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus sinks behind the giant planet in a farewell portrait from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. A thrilling epoch in...
View ArticleNews Briefs – September 15, 2017
Remains of missing Vietnam-era soldier identified A northeast Oklahoma soldier’s remains have been identified more than 50 years after the Vietnam War. The Claremore Daily Progress reports that Air...
View ArticleHeadlines – September 15, 2017
News 15 Marines injured after amphibious assault vehicle bursts into flames – Five of the 15 Marines injured Sept. 13 when their amphibious assault vehicle caught fire are in critical condition, Corps...
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President, first lady praise Air Force members, families
Celebrating the 70th birthday of the U.S. Air Force, President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump saluted airmen and their families during their visit Sept. 15 to Joint Base Andrews in...
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U.S. Air Force celebrates 70th anniversary
Courtesy photograph President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 on Sept. 18, 1947, creating the U.S. Air Force as a separate service of the U.S. military. With the stroke of a...
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