The Air Force is revamping the training pipeline for its toughest jobs. Beginning in November, the Air Force will add a 16-week tactical field course to the training pipeline of Airmen seeking to join ...

A new Air Force policy may require recent T-38 Talon pilot training graduates to fly aircraft other than fighters or bombers, even if those are their preferred options, in an attempt to fill the ...

Work will start this summer on a Pentagon “mega-project” in Alaska intended to boost the Air Force’s training capability to defend North America. The 150,000-square-foot Joint Integrated Test and ...

The T-7 Red Hawk is meant to teach student pilots how to fly fifth-generation aircraft such as the F-35. Air Force officials laid out their plans for teaching instructor pilots on the T-7, and then ...

During a recent speech the Air Force's top enlisted leader, Chief Master Sgt. David Flosi, singled out Special Operations Senior Airman Marlene Guerrero. Flosi praised her for "kicking a**" by ...

A vast majority of Americans know little or nothing at all about the Air Force's special warfare jobs, an issue highlighted in a new think tank study as the service has struggled to recruit for those ...

Lt. Col. Michael Trott has already achieved his childhood dream of becoming an Air Force pilot. Now he’s preparing to mark a milestone in the Air Force’s goal to modernize pilot training. Trott, call ...

The Air Force touts its True North program as a unique success in getting mental health support directly into some of its most stressful workplaces. Rather than expect airmen who need mental help ...

The MH-139A Grey Wolf, meant to replace the U.S. Air Force’s Vietnam-era UH-1N Hueys, is now gradually being fielded and integrated into the nuclear defense mission, after the delivery of the first ...

The recruit walked briskly up to Tech. Sgt. Bradley Middleton and pivoted to face him. To the untrained eye, nothing seemed out of place. But it was all wrong. The young airman-in-training was ...