Three weeks before Trump and Biden sparred over their respective golf games at last Thursday’s presidential debate, “The Courses at Andrews” Air Force Base hosted a charity golf tournament for wounded Ukrainian veterans of the neo-Nazi Azov movement…
Airman Arrested in Connection with Explosives Attack on U.S. Base in Syria…
An unidentified airman has been arrested in connection with an attack using explosives in April on a small U.S. military base in Syria that wounded four American service members, Air Force officials said Tuesday…
Military, Federal Employees and Civilian Contractors Sue Biden…
Liberty Counsel has filed a class action lawsuit along with a motion for a temporary restraining order and injunction against Joseph R. Biden, U.S. Secretary of the Department of Defense Lloyd Austin and U.S. Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on behalf of members from all five branches of the military — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard — federal employees and federal civilian contractors, who have been unlawfully mandated to get the COVID shots or face dishonorable discharge from the military or termination from employment…
Former Fighter Pilots Developing Aggressive Cancers: Is Radar to Blame?…
Former fighter pilots are developing especially intrusive forms of cancer, and some suspect it’s from exposure to intense radar systems. “We are dropping like flies in our 50s from aggressive cancers,” retired Air Force Col. Eric Nelson, a former F-15 weapons officer, told McClatchy. Nelson has seen fellow aviators he flew with and commanded diagnosed […]
AF General Hyten Denies Sexual Assault Accusations, But New Questions Cloud His Confirmation…
Senior military officials and key Senate Republicans rallied around President Donald Trump’s pick for next Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Tuesday by flatly dismissing sexual assault allegations leveled against him by a former aide. Gen. John Hyten, the current head of U.S. Strategic Command, called the claims against him false and […]
Skywatcher Captures Rare Image of Mysterious X-37B Military Space Plane…
Skywatcher and satellite tracker Ralf Vandebergh of the Netherlands recently caught a rare glimpse of the U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane. Vandebergh said he’d been hunting for the robotic spacecraft for months and finally managed to track it down in May. But it took a bit longer to get photos of the vehicle. […]
Terror Rulings Vacated Over Risk of Bias from Military Judge…
Unraveling two years of rulings in the prosecution of a suspected al-Qaida mastermind, the D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday that the military judge disqualified himself by secretly lobbying the White House for a federal judgeship. “It is beyond question that judges may not adjudicate cases involving their prospective employers,” says the 31-page opinion, written for a […]
In Air Force Milestone, First Female F-35 Test Pilot Completes Mission…
In a recent string of firsts for the male-dominated U.S. military, Maj. Rachael Winiecki became the first female F-35 pilot to complete a test mission at Edwards Air Base in California. Winiecki, of the 461st Flight Test Squadron, said while aviation is mostly male, the number of women conducting flight tests is on the rise […]
Massive Pentagon Agency Lost Track of Hundreds of Millions of Dollars…
One of the Pentagon’s largest agencies can’t account for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of spending, a leading accounting firm says in an internal audit obtained by POLITICO that arrives just as President Donald Trump is proposing a boost in the military budget. Ernst & Young found that the Defense Logistics Agency failed to […]
Empty Cockpit Syndrome: Air Force Struggles to Pull Pilot Plunge Out of Tailspin…
These are desperate times for the Air Force. To carry out its assigned missions at a time of rising tensions with North Korea and increasing demand for air power to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Air Force is losing too many of its best pilots. They’re not being lost to enemy fire, but to […]