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  • AFROTC Detachment 015 hosts historic fly-in

    The Air Force ROTC Detachment 015 hosted a team of aviation professionals from the 12th Training Squadron, Joint Base San Antonio - Randolph, Texas, on Sept. 24, 2022, to educate and inspire current and future Army, Navy, and Air Force ROTC cadets toward rated careers.

  • Remembering Brigadier General Charles McGee

    MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala.— Brig. Gen. Charles McGee was one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen and died at 102 on Jan. 16, 2022. He joined the military at a time when becoming a pilot as an African American was inconceivable.

  • AF Academy names airfield in honor of Tuskegee hero

    Honoring a Tuskegee trailblazer: Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the first African American general in the Air Force, once said, “I could have been a teacher. I could have been a doctor or a lawyer, if I wanted to, but I didn’t – I wanted to be a pilot.”