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  • 560 FTS honors legacy of POW fighter pilots at 43rd Freedom Flyer Reunion

    A retired Air Force chaplainextolled the contributions and sacrifices of all of America’s service memberslast week as the 560th Flying Training Squadron again paid homage to the AirForce fighter pilots who endured the horrors of prisoner-of-war camps duringthe Vietnam War.RetiredCol. Robert

  • Lightning II to Touch Down at Air Shows Around the World

    Aviation and F-35A fanatics have something special to look forward to this 2016 air show season.The Lightning II qualified March 6 at the Heritage Flight Conference at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona to take part in the Air Combat Command Air Force Heritage Flight program.

  • Newest 'Freedom Flyer' takes final flight for his B-52 crew

      The events of Dec. 20, 1972, were clearly on the mind of former Air Force pilot Paul Granger as he exited a T-38C Talon following a special hourlong flight March 3 that began and ended on the east flightline at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph. Caught up in the emotional aftermath of his

  • Flint recruiters assist community in crisis

    Recruiters are known as the face of the Air Force in communities all across the United States. And in Flint, Michigan, local recruiters Staff Sgts. Parker Smith and David Whitney are also known as the faces of compassion and humanitarian service.   The city of Flint has been in the news since April

  • Altus Airmen expand global reach

    Forging combat mobility forces is something that the aircrew instructors of the U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft take extremely serious, but that mission is not just limited to skies over the United States. Recently a team of Altus Air Force Base and Joint Base Lewis-McChord Airmen

  • State of AF: Modernizing for next offset strategy

    Budget plans are poised to keep the Air Force atop of its game, with a new bomber and advanced technology to help Airmen execute a future offset strategy, the head of the service announced at the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium Feb. 26.

  • Resilience on the Homefront: A POW wife's story

    When Capt. Carlyle “Smitty” Harris ejected from his F-105 Thunderchief Apr.  4, 1965, he left behind the cockpit of a doomed airplane and a family he dearly loved.     At his 67th Tactical Fighter Squadron’s base in Okinawa, the captain’s wife was unaware her husband’s plane had been destroyed by