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As Congress scrutinizes the Osprey, families balance grief with pilots' love for it

3:30am June 11, 2024

by The Associated Press

Families of service members lost in crashes say that if the Osprey is going to keep flying they want Bell Flight, Boeing and the Pentagon's V-22 joint program office to make the aircraft safe.

This artist rending provided by the U.S. Air Force shows a U.S. Air Force graphic of the Long Range Strike Bomber, designated the B-21.

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Pentagon debuts its new stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider

2:27pm December 02, 2022

by The Associated Press

It's the first new American bomber aircraft in more than 30 years. It's part of efforts to modernize all three legs of a nuclear triad, alongside nuclear missiles and submarine-launched warheads.

A photograph shows Toyama, Japan, aflame after the U.S. attack on Aug. 1, 1945. Most of the city's population was left homeless.

World News

Opinion: 75 Years On, Remember Hiroshima And Nagasaki. But Remember Toyama Too

2:17pm August 01, 2020

A U.S. firebombing campaign targeted Toyama and other Japanese cities, killing 180,000 before the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, write geographer Cary Karacas and historian David Fedman.

The U.S. Air Force's X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission 5 is seen after landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida on Sunday.

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Secret Air Force Space Plane Lands After More Than 2 Years In Orbit

8:19am October 28, 2019

by Scott Neuman

The X-37B, launched in September 2017, has returned to Earth. It was the fifth acknowledged mission for the vehicle since 2010, but details of its mission are being kept under wraps.

Fourteen airmen who have helped secure an Air Force missile base in Wyoming have been disciplined after investigators uncovered a drug ring operating there. Here, a mock-up of a Minuteman 3 nuclear missile is seen at F.E. Warren Air Force Base.

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Air Force Uncovered LSD Use Among Airmen Guarding Nuclear Missiles

12:46pm May 24, 2018

by Bill Chappell

Military investigators cracked the ring in 2016, after one of the service members made the mistake of posting material to social media.

The U.S. Air Force Academy has completed its investigation into an incident of racist graffiti on campus. The school's terrazzo and chapel are seen here in Colorado Springs, Colo., this summer.

Air Force Academy Cadet Wrote Slur Outside His Own Door, School Says

10:56am November 08, 2017

by Bill Chappell

The epithet was written on message boards outside the rooms of five black cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy's preparatory school in September.

Three men who helped to disarm an attacker on a train from Amsterdam to France, from left to right, Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Chris Norman, a British man living in France, pose with medals they received for their bravery at a restaurant in Arras,

Americans Hailed As Heroes For Subduing Gunman On Train In Belgium

4:48pm August 22, 2015

by Scott Neuman

An Air Force serviceman, a U.S. National Guardsman and a Sacramento State University student brought down the gunman. One was slashed several times with a box cutter and remains in the hospital.

This photo released by Vandenberg Air Force Base on Monday shows the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, the Air Force's unmanned, reusable space plane, after it landed at Vandenberg from a previous orbital mission.

Secret U.S. Space Plane To Land After 22 Months In Orbit

8:59pm October 14, 2014

by Scott Neuman

There are many theories about what exactly the unmanned X-37B is doing as it circles the Earth on long-duration missions.