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  • 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

  • Welsh presents AF update at AFA

    Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Mark A. Welsh III outlined Air Force operations from 2015, the service’s plan for 2016, and what is to come in the future at the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium Feb. 25.

  • Cody gives enlisted perspective at AFA

    Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Cody spoke to a room of Airmen and civilians about today’s generation of Airmen and their families during the Air Force Association Air Warfare Symposium Feb. 25.

  • Lending a helping hand in Flint, Michigan

    Staff Sgt. David Whitney (right) hands a box of bottled water to Staff Sgt. Parker Smith at Word Temple Church in Flint, Michigan, Feb. 10. Whitney and Parker are 339th Recruiting Squadron recruiters based in Flint. Due to massive amounts of lead found in Flint water, millions of bottles of water