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Air Force budget calls for more planes, drones — and a lot more bombs
The Air Force’s proposed budget for fiscal 2019 calls for increasing the number of F-35As, KC-46 tankers, MQ-9 Reapers, and rebuilding its stockpile of precision-guided munitions such as the Hellfire missile and Joint Directed Attack Munition.
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Air Force budget would add 4,700 airmen, boost combat squadrons
The Air Force hopes to add 4,700 total force airmen in fiscal 2019, which would bring the service’s overall end strength to about 506,200.
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Surgical team on front lines of ISIS war to receive Bronze Stars
The Air Force will award Bronze Stars to five Special Operations Surgical Team airmen next week, including four who saved many lives under grueling conditions on the front lines of the war against the Islamic State in 2016.
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Air Force selects 258 for supplemental promotion
The Air Force Personnel Center said Thursday that it has selected 258 airmen for supplemental promotion in February.
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As Tet Offensive erupted, this Air Force vet bombed his own base to repel attack
Fifty years ago, 1st Lt. Fred Abrams and his wingman, the late Maj. Joe Bulger, carried out danger-close airstrikes on their own base, where Viet Cong infiltrators had dug in to make their last stand.
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Lawmaker blasts Air Force general over unsolved hypoxia problem
The chairman of a House Armed Services subcommittee blasted the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for operations Tuesday over the service’s inability to get to the bottom of the hypoxia problem plaguing pilots.
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Air Force cuts re-up bonuses for dozens of jobs — but you still have a chance to cash in
A change this year gives airmen in affected Air Force specialty codes 30 days to re-enlist and still get their higher bonuses.
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Air Force selects 875 for promotion to captain
The Air Force Personnel Center announced Friday that 825 first lieutenants have been selected for promotion to captain.
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13 hypoxia-like events in one week led to T-6 fleet grounding
The 19th Air Force’s fleet of T-6 trainers were grounded after 13 unexplained events, such as hypoxia, in a single week, Air Education and Training Command said Thursday.
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Air Force grounds all T-6 flights after multiple hypoxia-like problems
The 19th Air Force has halted all T-6 Texan II operations after a “cluster” of unexplained physiological events — a term used to describe conditions such as hypoxia — at three bases over the last week.
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Air Force budget calls for more planes, drones — and a lot more bombs
The Air Force’s proposed budget for fiscal 2019 calls for increasing the number of F-35As, KC-46 tankers, MQ-9 Reapers, and rebuilding its stockpile of precision-guided munitions such as the Hellfire missile and Joint Directed Attack Munition.
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Air Force budget would add 4,700 airmen, boost combat squadrons
The Air Force hopes to add 4,700 total force airmen in fiscal 2019, which would bring the service’s overall end strength to about 506,200.
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Surgical team on front lines of ISIS war to receive Bronze Stars
The Air Force will award Bronze Stars to five Special Operations Surgical Team airmen next week, including four who saved many lives under grueling conditions on the front lines of the war against the Islamic State in 2016.
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Air Force selects 258 for supplemental promotion
The Air Force Personnel Center said Thursday that it has selected 258 airmen for supplemental promotion in February.
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As Tet Offensive erupted, this Air Force vet bombed his own base to repel attack
Fifty years ago, 1st Lt. Fred Abrams and his wingman, the late Maj. Joe Bulger, carried out danger-close airstrikes on their own base, where Viet Cong infiltrators had dug in to make their last stand.
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Lawmaker blasts Air Force general over unsolved hypoxia problem
The chairman of a House Armed Services subcommittee blasted the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for operations Tuesday over the service’s inability to get to the bottom of the hypoxia problem plaguing pilots.
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Air Force cuts re-up bonuses for dozens of jobs — but you still have a chance to cash in
A change this year gives airmen in affected Air Force specialty codes 30 days to re-enlist and still get their higher bonuses.
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Air Force selects 875 for promotion to captain
The Air Force Personnel Center announced Friday that 825 first lieutenants have been selected for promotion to captain.
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13 hypoxia-like events in one week led to T-6 fleet grounding
The 19th Air Force’s fleet of T-6 trainers were grounded after 13 unexplained events, such as hypoxia, in a single week, Air Education and Training Command said Thursday.
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Air Force grounds all T-6 flights after multiple hypoxia-like problems
The 19th Air Force has halted all T-6 Texan II operations after a “cluster” of unexplained physiological events — a term used to describe conditions such as hypoxia — at three bases over the last week.
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Air Force budget calls for more planes, drones — and a lot more bombs
The Air Force’s proposed budget for fiscal 2019 calls for increasing the number of F-35As, KC-46 tankers, MQ-9 Reapers, and rebuilding its stockpile of precision-guided munitions such as the Hellfire missile and Joint Directed Attack Munition.
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Air Force budget would add 4,700 airmen, boost combat squadrons
The Air Force hopes to add 4,700 total force airmen in fiscal 2019, which would bring the service’s overall end strength to about 506,200.
-
Surgical team on front lines of ISIS war to receive Bronze Stars
The Air Force will award Bronze Stars to five Special Operations Surgical Team airmen next week, including four who saved many lives under grueling conditions on the front lines of the war against the Islamic State in 2016.
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Air Force selects 258 for supplemental promotion
The Air Force Personnel Center said Thursday that it has selected 258 airmen for supplemental promotion in February.
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As Tet Offensive erupted, this Air Force vet bombed his own base to repel attack
Fifty years ago, 1st Lt. Fred Abrams and his wingman, the late Maj. Joe Bulger, carried out danger-close airstrikes on their own base, where Viet Cong infiltrators had dug in to make their last stand.
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Lawmaker blasts Air Force general over unsolved hypoxia problem
The chairman of a House Armed Services subcommittee blasted the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for operations Tuesday over the service’s inability to get to the bottom of the hypoxia problem plaguing pilots.
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Air Force cuts re-up bonuses for dozens of jobs — but you still have a chance to cash in
A change this year gives airmen in affected Air Force specialty codes 30 days to re-enlist and still get their higher bonuses.
-
Air Force selects 875 for promotion to captain
The Air Force Personnel Center announced Friday that 825 first lieutenants have been selected for promotion to captain.
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13 hypoxia-like events in one week led to T-6 fleet grounding
The 19th Air Force’s fleet of T-6 trainers were grounded after 13 unexplained events, such as hypoxia, in a single week, Air Education and Training Command said Thursday.
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Air Force grounds all T-6 flights after multiple hypoxia-like problems
The 19th Air Force has halted all T-6 Texan II operations after a “cluster” of unexplained physiological events — a term used to describe conditions such as hypoxia — at three bases over the last week.
